I am beginning to give up all likeliness of hope whilst attempting to organise my library. I am coming up with various issues multiple times over and over again when trying to what most would think the simplest of tasks. I shall categorise the issues in order of what I think is importance or the most annoying to the least annoying.
1: Field tags not being recognised, leading to split albums.
I am organising a lot of individual tracks and making up my own compilation albums but I am finding even though that I am filling all of the fields in properly in the sorting section when I have all of the individual tracks 'grouped' in a playlist and I select all to fill in the fields in the sorting section, odd tracks keep getting ignored or left out. Usually I am finding this to be either the first or last tracks but other odd tracks within the selection are being missed out also. This is happening even with me having everything selected.
I am then having to go back and individually select the odd track and refill in the fields in the sorting section. Then much to my annoyance, even though the fields are correct and exactly the same as the rest of them for that playlist/compilation (as I am copy and pasting this information) for whatever reason it is treated as a separate track, so then I have to go back, select all, refill all the fields in again in the sorting section by adding a * or similar to make them all actually group as one. Quite obviously I don't want a * in my album title so then I have to go back and remove that before I end up with the album title that I want and the compilation actually grouping together the way that I want.
I am following exactly the same methods as mentioned here https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-10012 but this does nothing to help improve my situation.
It is the most annoying thing ever and is taking me so much time to organise my library over such a buggy issue.
2: Tracks not playing when I click on them.
I have noticed that sometimes when I try and play a track it does not play and I have to come out of that album/playlist screen and go back into it before it allows me to play the track that was having the issue with, this is pretty similar to the issue described below with the flickering artwork but appears to happen more frequently.
3: Blinking/Flashing/Flickering artwork and track information lines.
Another bug is that occasionally when I am either on the album tracklist or playlist screen both the artwork and the track information lines start to go crazy and randomly blink/flash/flicker on and off and I have also noticed that when it is doing this it is hard to actually select a track so then I have to click out of the screen to another album or something and then return to the desired album screen before I can click on a track to play. Also when I am in the full albums screen sometimes albums will blink/flash/flicker and also come up with what I can only describe as a distorted TV pixelation that you used to get with analogue televisions. It is like the artwork is corrupt or something but within minutes it will be fine again.
Conclusion (?)
I am suspecting that it is a due to a corrupt database however I am struggling to reset my database without losing any of my data. I am trying to follow the details laid out in this article here https://kirkville.com/how-to-rebuild-your-itunes-library/ However no matter what I do nothing appears to reset.
I have made a back up of the .itl and .xml files and deleted the original ones and then reimport the .xml from the desktop to rebuild the database. However when I open iTunes all of my stuff is there to begin and when I do import the .xml file nothing really changes and it literally takes about 30 seconds for a 100GB library which is quite obviously not right for a library rebuild of that size. Furthermore when I check the iTunes folder that normally holds the .itl and .xml files (the ones that I backup elsewhere on my drive) I am finding that iTunes is putting the files back in place.
It is almost like iTunes is reading these files from elsewhere. I am struggling to find any up to date information regarding the new Music app as most of the information is in relation to the old iTunes app and the above article is the most up to date that I could find really in regards to this subject.
So I would be very thankful if someone would be able to help me with the procedure of repairing my database properly for the new Apple Music application Version 1.0.4.104 on Mac OS.
1: Field tags not being recognised, leading to split albums.
I am organising a lot of individual tracks and making up my own compilation albums but I am finding even though that I am filling all of the fields in properly in the sorting section when I have all of the individual tracks 'grouped' in a playlist and I select all to fill in the fields in the sorting section, odd tracks keep getting ignored or left out. Usually I am finding this to be either the first or last tracks but other odd tracks within the selection are being missed out also. This is happening even with me having everything selected.
I am then having to go back and individually select the odd track and refill in the fields in the sorting section. Then much to my annoyance, even though the fields are correct and exactly the same as the rest of them for that playlist/compilation (as I am copy and pasting this information) for whatever reason it is treated as a separate track, so then I have to go back, select all, refill all the fields in again in the sorting section by adding a * or similar to make them all actually group as one. Quite obviously I don't want a * in my album title so then I have to go back and remove that before I end up with the album title that I want and the compilation actually grouping together the way that I want.
I am following exactly the same methods as mentioned here https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-10012 but this does nothing to help improve my situation.
It is the most annoying thing ever and is taking me so much time to organise my library over such a buggy issue.
2: Tracks not playing when I click on them.
I have noticed that sometimes when I try and play a track it does not play and I have to come out of that album/playlist screen and go back into it before it allows me to play the track that was having the issue with, this is pretty similar to the issue described below with the flickering artwork but appears to happen more frequently.
3: Blinking/Flashing/Flickering artwork and track information lines.
Another bug is that occasionally when I am either on the album tracklist or playlist screen both the artwork and the track information lines start to go crazy and randomly blink/flash/flicker on and off and I have also noticed that when it is doing this it is hard to actually select a track so then I have to click out of the screen to another album or something and then return to the desired album screen before I can click on a track to play. Also when I am in the full albums screen sometimes albums will blink/flash/flicker and also come up with what I can only describe as a distorted TV pixelation that you used to get with analogue televisions. It is like the artwork is corrupt or something but within minutes it will be fine again.
Conclusion (?)
I am suspecting that it is a due to a corrupt database however I am struggling to reset my database without losing any of my data. I am trying to follow the details laid out in this article here https://kirkville.com/how-to-rebuild-your-itunes-library/ However no matter what I do nothing appears to reset.
I have made a back up of the .itl and .xml files and deleted the original ones and then reimport the .xml from the desktop to rebuild the database. However when I open iTunes all of my stuff is there to begin and when I do import the .xml file nothing really changes and it literally takes about 30 seconds for a 100GB library which is quite obviously not right for a library rebuild of that size. Furthermore when I check the iTunes folder that normally holds the .itl and .xml files (the ones that I backup elsewhere on my drive) I am finding that iTunes is putting the files back in place.
It is almost like iTunes is reading these files from elsewhere. I am struggling to find any up to date information regarding the new Music app as most of the information is in relation to the old iTunes app and the above article is the most up to date that I could find really in regards to this subject.
So I would be very thankful if someone would be able to help me with the procedure of repairing my database properly for the new Apple Music application Version 1.0.4.104 on Mac OS.