importing compilation cd into itunes

[rtztgue]

I have a few music compilation cds I want to import into itunes. Itunes recoginizes the cd but cannot get artist or track info since it is a cd I made. Anyway, it starts importing it and sends it to la la land. Is there a way I can force itunes to put the music in a specific directory, or name it something particular so I can find it easy enough and copy it to a playlist? I have imported this a few times and I get a lot of "unknown artists" or "track 001" file names... meanwhile I am manually hunting through all the itunes media trying to find the files itunes just imported with very little luck.

I thought about using another ripping program on the cds and then importing. Anyone try this? is there a better method?

 

[gnasher729]

I have a few music compilation cds I want to import into itunes. Itunes recoginizes the cd but cannot get artist or track info since it is a cd I made. Anyway, it starts importing it and sends it to la la land. Is there a way I can force itunes to put the music in a specific directory, or name it something particular so I can find it easy enough and copy it to a playlist? I have imported this a few times and I get a lot of "unknown artists" or "track 001" file names... meanwhile I am manually hunting through all the itunes media trying to find the files itunes just imported with very little luck.

I thought about using another ripping program on the cds and then importing. Anyone try this? is there a better method?

Go to the "recently imported" playlist as soon as the CD is imported, so all the tracks will be there - obviously with no reasonable information. I'd put something like "Compilation CD 1", "Compilation CD 2" into both artist and album as a quick measure to keep at least the CDs apart (select all the freshly imported titles and "Get Info", then you have to enter this only once); then you can enter artist / album / song later.

 

[rtztgue]

Thanks, but my itunes does not have a recently imported playlist... unless I am seriously missing it somewhere. I created one, and imported a cd but no joy......

 

[GGJstudios]

Is there a way I can force itunes to put the music in a specific directory

When you import from a CD, iTunes will store the files in whatever folder you've selected as the iTunes Media folder in iTunes > Preferences > Advanced

meanwhile I am manually hunting through all the itunes media trying to find the files itunes just imported with very little luck.

An easy way to do this is to select all your music, right-click and uncheck the selection, so none of your music is checked. Then, when you import, anything added to the library is automatically checked. You can create a smart playlist like this, which will show any checked items:

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Or you can create a Recently Added smart playlist similar to this:

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[mchalebk]

If you go into your music library, you can sort by date added. I usually keep mine sorted so that the newest songs are at the top. If I need to fix anything in any of the recent files, they're very easy to find.

However, I try to edit the CD info before ripping; just makes things cleaner that way.

 

[rtztgue]

Thanks this helped. I made a smart playlist and went by date. this will allow me to find the various tracks I imported in the last day and move them to other playlists.

I did know about the directory in the advanced settings and I have that set the way I want... but since Itunes does not work like a directory/file program it was still hard for me to see the file in the music directory structure of my hard drive and then put it in an itunes playlist. I was hoping I could just import right to a playlist. Well the smart playlist will do that for me now and I can arrange it the way I want..

Thanks for the help