MacOS asking for permission to move or edit mp3 files, also preventing Music app from bulk changing info

[dictoresno]

Never had this happen before with my almost 30,000 songs in music

I bought an mp3 CD disk of an obscure foreign band. I was able to rip the mp3 files to my NAS hard drive and drag/drop them into the music app with no issue. however I noticed I was unable to bulk edit them, including add an album title, year cover photo, edit artist name.....nothing. every time I hit "ok" it just wouldn't process it. however I can appear to edit each individual file manually (at least the artist name), just not bulk.

when moving the files around in finder, to edit folder names or sort the files, it prompted my password for each move or edit. right clicked, unlocked and allowed me and all users permissions to read/write on the mp3 files. same issue, individually I can edit each one by artist, but can't bulk do it.

I went back to the original CD, right clicked and hit get info. tried to change it to read/write and it gave me an error saying I wasn't allowed. I checked not only the parent folder, but even the individually organized album folders and changed them all to read/write. still nothing.

Any way to get these files successfully edited?

 

[Fishrrman]

"Any way to get these files successfully edited?"

I'll offer you something to try. No promises.

You need an external USB drive for this.
Can be hard drive, SSD, USB flash drive -- anything.

On the external drive, create a new folder which will hold the mp3 files. Give it any name you wish.

Now, copy all the files into the new folder. All together or one-at-a-time, doesn't matter.

Now, select the icon for the external drive (not the folder) by clicking on it ONE TIME.

Next, bring up the "get info" box for that drive (you can type command-i).

At the bottom of get info, click the lock icon and enter your password.

Put a check into "ignore ownership on this volume" (sharing and permissions).

Close get info.

Now... copy the folder from the external drive to your INTERNAL drive.

Try editing/manipulating the files now.
Any better?
If this works delete "old copies" of the problem files.

What we did was to "overcome" permissions problems by "ignoring" ownership on the entire external drive. Thus, anything ON the drive has its permission "re-set" so that when you copy the files back to your internal drive, they "fall under the ownership" of YOUR account on the drive.

 

[dictoresno]

The ignore ownership on this volume was already check marked on the USB drive and the target drive.

It allows me to edit the songs individually but not in bulk. I also noticed when editing the artist name and album name, it makes iTunes pinwheel for 5 seconds before it applies the changes. ive already rebooted the computer, so it's not a RAM issue. the permissions must be working since I can edit them, but not in bulk which is the weird part.

 

[dictoresno]

ok I just noticed even though I changed the disk and albums folders to red/write, the individual mp3 files were set to read only. is there a way to bulk edit the files in finder without having to click on each one individually and set their permissions? I figured by setting permissions on the parent folders, it would also effect the individual files in the folder.

now its letting me edit them in bulk

 

[dictoresno]

ok I figured it out. I went to the parent folder and changed the permissions and then selected "apply to all enclosed items" and it did all of the files.