iTunes "Info" Editing....

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

Thanks.

It definitively looks like that file is locked. I did an experiment and when I open a locked file I get the same as you...

Locked vs unlocked

If you right-click that track and choose "show song file" is the file (or its parent folder or even somewhere higher in the hierarchy) locked?

 

[bokdol]

ok there is a few thing you need to check. first try draggin one song out of your itunes library and putting it on the desktop. then with the song on the desktop do a comand i. or get info. (edit. or do a search like the above guy) a small window pops up. down at the bottom there is a permissions sections. expand that view. see who has permissions. (edit. in the pictures on the above post you can see read write options forownership. expand the details. and there are more. if the others say read only you need to change them to read write) set all of them to read write. then rename the file and import it back into itunes to see if you can change the name.


if that does not work try try converting each file to aac files, in itunes. it's in your importing otions under prefs. i had the same problem with a downloaded file. from the song writers website. (it was a free download) it went into itunes fine but the mp3 would not retain the name. so i converted it to aac. then i was able to change everything.

 

[Togglehead]

ok guys i see where your going with this....i'll get on that

I dont understand much about reimporting.....can someone explain how the dir works?

If i manually put all of my songs (in artist based folders) in the iTunes Music folder with the finder...how does iTunes treat those files?

What about if i import them from a DATA cd....and choose copy songs to folder.

What if i DONT choose copy songs to folder....

Also, i have noticed that many of my files permissions are "Read Only" However, after i change them, and reopen iTunes, i still cant change em.....how can i delete my whole library, and start over....lol

UPDATE: I moved the library to a differen folder, and tries to import to iTunes on artist at a time. All was going well for a time....but i got to one artist and could edit one album, but not the other. When looking in the Finder, they were named differently, so i attempted to change the name in Finder....it wouldnt let me. I was locked out in Finder, and iTunes.....now what?!?!...lol the permissions were set apparantly correctly. i guess these two are related too...lol

 

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

I think this might be a good time to read through the iTunes Fast Start, to learn the basics of iTunes...

 

[Togglehead]

I think this might be a good time to read through the iTunes Fast Start, to learn the basics of iTunes...

RTFM...of COURSE. Silly me.....ill be back...lol

 

[decksnap]

ok there is a few thing you need to check. first try draggin one song out of your itunes library and putting it on the desktop. then with the song on the desktop do a comand i. or get info. (edit. or do a search like the above guy) a small window pops up. down at the bottom there is a permissions sections. expand that view. see who has permissions. (edit. in the pictures on the above post you can see read write options forownership. expand the details. and there are more. if the others say read only you need to change them to read write) set all of them to read write. then rename the file and import it back into itunes to see if you can change the name.


if that does not work try try converting each file to aac files, in itunes. it's in your importing otions under prefs. i had the same problem with a downloaded file. from the song writers website. (it was a free download) it went into itunes fine but the mp3 would not retain the name. so i converted it to aac. then i was able to change everything.

There's a couple things wrong with these comments- one, dragging a song out of iTunes will generate a new copy, which may or may not have the same permissions as the one in the library. Two, converting songs that are already ripped as mp3s into AACs will damage the quality and probably be a lot of work. definitely not recommended.


MY ADVICE: Try selecting the iTunes music folder in the finder, doing a 'get info' (Apple+i) changing all your settings there to read/write, (yes, including the ones under 'details') then select 'apply to enclosed items'. This should change read/write for all the songs at once.

But as to your question:
If your iTunes is set to 'keep files organized' and to 'copy music to iTunes folder when importing', you do not want to edit, rename, add or remove anything in the Finder. Do it all through iTunes, regardless of your current issue, because messing with them in the Finder won't help.

To start over, make sure both the options above are checked. Then:

go in the finder
move all your artists folders out of the iTunes music folder into another location
Open iTunes
Select your main Library
Select all (Apple+A)
Delete

Now go get all the music you moved and drag it back onto the iTunes window.
This will copy all your music into your iTunes music folder again.
Delete the originals.

 

[Togglehead]

GOT IT!

It was the permissions!!! I had to get to details of all of them and blah blah....i then started the library all over agian and imported album by album, renaming along the way, and all worked GREAT!!!!!

thanks you guys SO much for your help!!!!

 

[bokdol]

There's a couple things wrong with these comments- one, dragging a song out of iTunes will generate a new copy, which may or may not have the same permissions as the one in the library. Two, converting songs that are already ripped as mp3s into AACs will damage the quality and probably be a lot of work. definitely not recommended.

will the point of dragging it out is to make a new copy of the song. this way you can do whatever you want to it with out messing with the library. you can always throw it in the trash.

point 2 yes there will be loss of quality. but depending on how picky the guy is. it might not be that bad. and the conversion will take care of any permission issues... but he seem to solve it so i guess it does not matter. i converted for a high quailty download and did not notice any differece in the song. but that was to figure out why i was getting these issues. any how it was just a suggestion that worked for me.

 

[Togglehead]

yeah i DID figure it out....but this was ALL good info i must say....

and yes...im SUPER picky about quality....id have all true wav files if i could....theyre just too huge....=]