iTunes toasted me!

[jarekanderson]

I was trying to fix the format of one album that I had just added to my library, but didn't see that there were about 500 songs highlighted above that particular album before I hit 'get info' and changed everything to Matthew Good's Vancouver.

There was no undo option in the edit pane.

Is there anything I can do short of listening to every song and correcting the info one by one?

 

[GGJstudios]

If it's the song names you changed, you can rename the songs from the file names, using the "Filenames to Song Names" script from Doug's AppleScripts for iTunes.

 

[Sky Blue]

Surely, you toasted yourself, iTunes didn't make you select all those songs. Unless you can revert to a backup, you'll have to change them back manually or use a script.

 

[jarekanderson]

Thanks GGJ... will a timecapsule restore do this? Is there a way that I can get it to only touch my itunes library and not like my emails or anything else? I'm off to research time capsule restores right now before I get flamed for not using the search button!!!

Ahhhh the semantics are correct, it was me who selected the files... but I blame iTunes for not thinking that 500 files was too many for one album.

 

[GGJstudios]

Thanks GGJ... will a timecapsule restore do this? Is there a way that I can get it to only touch my itunes library and not like my emails or anything else? I'm off to research time capsule restores right now before I get flamed for not using the search button!!!

Ahhhh the semantics are correct, it was me who selected the files... but I blame iTunes for not thinking that 500 files was too many for one album.

Yes, a restore from a backup file should work fine. You should be able to selectively restore only your iTunes.

It's not iTunes problem. You're the one who selected 500 files to change. iTunes is a music organizer/player. It's not designed to be a substitute for user intelligence.