Comments on: Tidy Up iTunes MP3 Collection – Fix ID3 Tags And More

By: Marvin

Marvin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:31:27 +0000

My iTunes videos are showing up in the music library instead of the video library. Along with that problem, I'm also not able to view the videos on my iPod, because only the sound will play. However, I can view the videos on my PC from iTunes or from my iPod if it's wired to my PC. I don't know how or when this happened but would appreciate any help anyone could provide. In short my iPod vides think they're audio.

By: lol

lol — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 05:46:29 +0000

“listening TO”, you illiterate fucktard.

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By: staffing1

staffing1 — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 06:10:58 +0000

Thanks for this.

It is possibly the best thing I could have found for my itunes.

:)
www.staffingpower.com

By: HSN

HSN — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 15:59:50 +0000

I recently wrote a review of TuneUp that your readers might find interesting or helpful. My article is titled How to clean your MP3 collection. In the article, I recommend that people wipe clean the ID3 "Comment Tag," and then use those tag cleaning applications such as TuneUp or Fixtunes.

By: Best MP3 Tagging Tools | Connected Internet

Best MP3 Tagging Tools | Connected Internet — Sun, 31 May 2009 11:55:41 +0000

[...] my media centers, my ipods or my phones, so I think I’m a bit of an expert when it comes to tagging mp3 music [...]

By: Leaving iTunes Behind - Moving To MediaMonkey And Lossless Music | Connected Internet

Fri, 29 May 2009 12:24:15 +0000

[...] it was done. All I add to do was scan my music directory, and MediaMonkey added my info. Because my music was so well tagged, nearly all my iTunes library info was available. The info that was missing e.g. playcounts was [...]

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Wed, 04 Feb 2009 09:05:47 +0000

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By: Patrick

Patrick — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 12:42:51 +0000

Ok, took me a while…but I was able to tidy up all my music. The program froze up from time to time, and i’d have to restart it…but it definitely did the trick. It may have been my crap internet that was hindering process. I must say the program is awesome. I was able to weed out about 1000 duplicates I had that were improperly labeled. One flaw worth mentioning is that only about 2 of my albums had genre tags attached to them. The rest of my music shows up in itunes with no genre at all. If that’s the biggest problem I have to worry about..I’ll take it. Loved the program, thank you very much for the recommendation. :)

By: Patrick

Patrick — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 15:54:08 +0000

Thanks a lot for the tip. Great program so far. I’m currently deployed to Afghanistan, and the net here is rather slow. I’ve got almost 9,000 mp3’s to sort through, and hopefully this program will automate most of that for me. Luckily for me…I’ve taken the time to make my file structure by artist, then album. Will help take the guess work out of it. Anyways..I’m on step 2. Will write back when everything is complete and post my results. Cheers :)

By: Free iPods

Free iPods — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 19:24:03 +0000

Thanks for this.

It is possibly the best thing I could have found for my itunes.

By: Apple Macbook

Apple Macbook — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 12:35:10 +0000

This is a great post as my iTunes library is compeltely messed up with wrong track names or missing artists.

I’ll give this program a good run through when I get home.
Thanks again.

By: Everton

Everton — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 17:05:47 +0000

@Jimmy

Yes, but you have to be very careful and it’s a bit messy. I think if you’ve selected ‘use ipod as a hard drive’ you can connect your iPod to your PC and see the files in windows explorer. All you have to do is configure explorer to show hidden files and folders and you will then see a series of folders like F0, F1, F2 etc on your ipod. Copy (not Cut so you have the originals if you make a mistake) these files to your PC and let musicbrainz scan and organise them, and you’ll have your library back on your PC.

This is a good method for copying files from multiple iPods to a PC btw

By: jimmy

jimmy — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 16:27:51 +0000

all my music files were deleted and i only have them on my ipod anyway i can still do this?

By: free 3g iphone

free 3g iphone — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:54:33 +0000

That musicbrainz tagger is a great tool – thank you!!

By: PS3 Addict

PS3 Addict — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 11:11:41 +0000

Does anyone know how i can stop itunes importing files within a folder twice. I’ve worked out why its doing it, it imports all the mp3 files and then imports them again with the m3u file.

I really dont want to have to delete all my m3u files if i can help it !

By: Julien

Julien — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 23:20:15 +0000

Nice tips !
Did you know ITLU (for Itunes Library Updater) http://itlu.ownz.ch/wordpress/
A nice tool for keep the itunes database up to date an clean orphans files … and more :D

By: Wii

Wii — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 22:53:43 +0000

I share the same problems as you and am a bit obsessive about getting tags right. I’d previously used Tag&Rename and spent ages, will give this a try though.

By: cwright

cwright — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 06:41:38 +0000

Ah! Thanks Everton!

That WAS easy!

By: Everton

Everton — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 05:43:47 +0000

@cwright

Create a Smart Playlist rather than a normal playlist

By: cwright

cwright — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 05:08:36 +0000

thanks for this post, I will try it one of these days. But wondering if anyone knows how I can easily get back my recently accidentally deleted ‘recently added’ list? on itunes?

I really miss it!

thanks
cw

By: Ashish

Ashish — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 16:43:56 +0000

nice tip .. i think it will help me a lot to organize my music collection. thanx a lot ..

By: edebiyat

edebiyat — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 07:08:04 +0000

I think it’s a good way of backing stuff up, and even locating it since i hate itunes .

By: Anon

Anon — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 08:59:59 +0000

If you really want to get all the songs you want without begging for downloads over the web (and its a slow process), go fly to Bangkok, Thailand or Manila, Philippines and buy a stack of Mp3 CDs. They sell em for 30 cents a CD. Each CD has some 300-500 tracks.

If you saw my collection, you'd drop. I have more songs than the average retail outlet

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By: Getting Vista, Zune Or Another MP3 Player? How To Migrate From iTunes » Connected Internet

Mon, 15 Jan 2007 22:09:36 +0000

[...] iTunes will now whirr away and move all of your mp3 files to one folder for easier management. Stage II – Make Sure All MP3 Files Have ID3 Tags [...]

By: Phil

Phil — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 19:57:36 +0000

[Comment ID #213 Will Be Quoted Here]

this file if 404′d now. anyone else know this?

By: Everton Blair

Everton Blair — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 17:19:56 +0000

Thanks for pointing this out Matt. For some reason the file on the server which redirected all my old links to the new site links got deleted. Without this file every external link before the move (including from search engines…) would be broken.

Luckily I made a backup so everything is ok now. thanks again

What don’t you like about the new theme?

By: matt kowalski

matt kowalski — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 16:29:43 +0000

the link under the article to other itunes article, doesn’t work
http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/blog/_archives/2005/11/24/1420681.html

ps: new themes … suck a bit

By: Everton Blair

Everton Blair — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 07:26:40 +0000

I would use mp3tag. You can use it to automatically add tags to files based on how they are stored on your computer e.g. Artist/venue/date and also by the filename.It will take one minute and then all have to do is just use the usual file/import function in iTunes.Whole process shouldn't take longer than 15 minutes.

By: Bill

Bill — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 01:32:09 +0000

Anyone know how to import home-recorded MP3 files into iTunes? I have 1000’s of home recordings which are all neatly filed in sub-directories by artists, venue, and dates. I would like to script that info to populate this into iTunes.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 25 May 2006 02:10:31 +0000

If you really want to clean up your mp3 collection use Zortam Mp3 Media Studio. (http://www.zortam.com). I managed all my files within day and left it over night to download lyrics and covers for my iPod.

By: dem

dem — Tue, 02 May 2006 22:47:40 +0000

im very new silver surfer ,thanks for all the info ,just done the double killer and now on the Music tagger.;35300 tracks and still going a lot of work to get them right

By: Geek Habitat

Geek Habitat — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 20:20:04 +0000

Christmas time brings new iPods and other MP3 players to many, many people — even those of us who've already owned three or more generations of the little white (or now, black) beauties. A new portable music player always seems to make me feel a litt…

By: Savage Nomads

Savage Nomads — Fri, 18 Nov 2005 01:42:35 +0000

I got a Ipod shuffle, I tried to use the winamp plugin to sync MP3 to the shuffle, but I couldn't get it to work. So I installed Itunes. I really don't care for Itunes but I'm giving it a…

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Filesharing Review — Sun, 23 Oct 2005 01:24:23 +0000

[Source: Connected Internet News | Broadband Mobile Gaming News] quoted: A lot of my tracks have weird or missing track details, errors and for some tracks I have no ID3 tags at all for the artist and album. I also have a lot of duplicates w…

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By: Lifehacker

Lifehacker — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 14:37:52 +0000

The blogger at Connected Internet spent a few nights cleaning up and de-duplicating an out-of-control iTunes library and came out with a fully tagged and pruned collection of songs all with album art.Using the previously-mentioned MusicBrainz song tagg…

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Link-Fu — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 12:29:53 +0000

Tidy Up iTunes MP3 collection…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 07:53:54 +0000

If you want to force iTunes to re-read your collection without losing playcount and ratings and such, try this little script:
http://ottodestruct.com/itunes/update.txt
Usage is fairly obvious.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 18 Oct 2005 18:13:27 +0000

Can you please share some of your music so that I can go out and later buy the CDs *innocent*blink* dextroz (at) jee mail . comm

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 18 Oct 2005 17:20:46 +0000

What do you do about backing up your music library? I now hate the idea of organizing albums simply by genre/artist or whatever… I make backups of everything to MP3 DVDs so I've organized it as:
\DVD001 – Alternative, Rock Pop\
\DVD002 – TripHop, Chill, Jazz\
\DVD003 – [whatever is on the dvd]\
I think it's a good way of backing stuff up, and even locating it since i hate itunes .. I use winamp so simple file browsing to mp3s.
What do you think?

By: Gareth.ky

Gareth.ky — Tue, 18 Oct 2005 15:14:26 +0000

I too had problems with my library, especially when I had re tagged a large number of songs. Importing the songs is tedious and dead tracks remain if you rename the songs. I wrote a script to automate this. Its a 1 click deal, it imports all new music & removes all the dead music. If you have simple updated the MP3 tags your play counts and other data will not be lost. You can even specify the folder(s) where you store your music if need be. check it out: iTunes Folder Sync

By: Music Collector

Music Collector — Tue, 18 Oct 2005 14:54:36 +0000

If you decide to erase your iTunes library, I suggest before you erase your existing library you want to export all your playlists which will allow you to import them after you create a new library. Though there may be some bad links to files that were renamed, many of the lists can be restored.
You can also save your ratings (which I value more than play lists). This can be done by creating a new playlist of all your five star songs. Then save this playlist (something like “5 star songs”). Create a seperate play list for 4, 3 and lower (if you bother with 2 or 1…). These play lists can be imported after you recreate your iTunes library. When you view the “5 star songs” play list, do a select all and rate the group as 5 star. Bingo, the library now has your former ratings. you get the idea…