Thanks, I don't have any problems identifying the CDs it is iTunes not importing all CDs as one album but separate tracks. This only happens with a few albums. Max. On 24/11/2012, at 8:45 AM, Cheryl Homiak <cahom...@gmail.com> wrote:
> First of all, you should check each cd before you let it be imported. It's > possible for iTunes to identify a cd incorrectly and also, the database may > come up with several possibilitiies from which you have to choose. > > If you know that your cd is being misidentified, you can use cmd-i on all the > tracks together and enter the correct information for the album manually > before importing and also can do each of the tracks individually for a cd. Or > you could wait until you have imported the cd and then select all the tracks > to put the album information in. But if you wait until all the hundreds of > cds have been imported, it will be a much more difficult job. > > I understand the problem somewhat as I have a slightly different but related > one. I unfortunately didn't have the foresight to know that someday iTunes > would come along. So several years before iTunes became accessible, before I > even owned a Mac, I ripped all my cds and then gave the cds away to friends. > That was okay except that iTunes, when I began using it, was not able to > identify a lot of my ripped material correctly; apparently the id tag > information was done differently. So to this day I don't have a lot of my > music in iTunes because it would be too scrambled up and I don't have the > time to spend straightening it out. Since you have original cds, as long as > you proceed with your importing systematically, I would think you shouldn't > have such a drastic problem. This is as much as i know and probably others on > list will have more detailed advice. I would just say: Proceed with caution > as you import each cd. > > > Hth. > > -- > Cheryl > > May the words of my mouth > and the meditation of my heart > be acceptable to You, Lord, > my rock and my Redeemer. > (Psalm 19:14 HCSB) > > > > On Nov 23, 2012, at 3:31 PM, Agent086b <agent0...@bigpond.com> wrote: > >> Hello all, I am importing hundreds of CDs in to iTunes. I am finding that >> some CDs are imported track by track and not as a complete album. I have >> selected the tracks to an album and gone in to the info section but could >> not find any to check to be part of a compilation or similar. >> Can anybody help here? >> Thanks as always. >> Max. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
