iTunes ?

i have my entire library on random right now and itunes is HEAVILY favoring xmas songs, it's eeeeeeeerie

Revive!

I guess this is more of an mp3 question and not just iTunes, but...

This is driving me nuts. Some of my mp3s are loud. Some of my mp3s are soft. Is there any way to keep from having to adjust the volume after every single goddamn song starts? LEVEL THIS SHIT!!

replaygain

preferences -> playback -> click 'sound check' works too

I'm not sure what I did, but somehow I double-clicked on something or other and now I have a master 'Artist' list showing up on my iTunes and I have no idea how to get rid of it. I'm talking about the 'Artist' column on the left of the screenshot here. Any ideas on how to make this go away? The usual right click to sort column options isn't applicable to this one for some reason.

http://i999.photobucket.com/albums/af118/jon830/Screenshot2010-04-02at23101PM.png

Command+B

See also View > Column Browser

Ah, thanks! I figured it would be something easy like that.

has anyone else noticed iTunes selling a bunch of popular indie records at $7.99? presumably to compete with Amazon mp3 . . .

Has anyone else noticed iTunes crashing my computer every time it tries to perform more than one operation at a time? Presumably to make me buy a new computer...

Nah that's just iTunes for ya. It's always kind of like that. I mean, it doesn't even have the ability to let you look at other playlists while a track in another playlist is paused...

why has itunes started randomly deleting my music? a load of carl craig the other day and now all of yearbook1? what a fucking hassle, how do i stop this ffs?

Are they getting the exclamation point or are they just vanishing altogether?

exclamation point and when i look for them in my folders they're nowhere to be found, just a few things but who knows really

My iTunes is messed up. No way have I listened to the aeroplane remix of baby can't stop 337 times. Which is a shame cuz I like to keep accurate track of these things.

my older version of itunes works okay, but these types of problems are precisely why i won't upgrade to the new version of itunes. leave well enough alone.

After restoring from a backup, it looks like I'm missing about 1/4 of the tracks from the Mute Audio Documents box, completely at random. I am not looking forward to reripping that thing.

Really really really wish people would stop tagging retail versions of albums with "(Album Version)" on every damned song. In the past week I've had to go back re-edit every track on the Against Me! and Janelle Monae albums.

Downloads from Amazon are particularly bad with that, for whatever reason.

Yeah, I hate that too. Haven't seen any other retailers besides Amazon that do it.

I might as well get a fucking discman considering the completely batshit ways people tag rap albums.

That shit where every artist is different because they list it by every guest on the track? Why did that start?

^drives me insane. put features in the title field ffs.

why has itunes started randomly deleting my music? a load of carl craig the other day and now all of yearbook1? what a fucking hassle, how do i stop this ffs?

Happens to me lots. You probably moved the folder iTunes accesses your mp3 files from in actual Windows Explorer.

Organize your music in Windows Explorer and then just select File > Add Folder To Library to get it back on your comp. Obviously use the Windows search function to just find where you put your music in the first place.

Anything you rip from a CD is automatically put in an appropriate iTunes folder, but as far as downloads go though they tend to get mixed up in your comp.

Go to dougsscripts.com and start finding/using applescripts to manage your iTunes / metadata. Super simple to install and use and it will save you lots of time and frustration.

With the rap album stuff, people seem to be unaware of or using the "Album Artist" tag improperly.

Discovered a good new way to make a smart playlist -- last skipped = at least 6 months ago + last played = at least 6 months ago. then shuffle. You get all the stuff you haven't heard in a while while filtering out a lot of stuff you just explicitly don't like or feel like listening to.

interesting idea, i will try it

I know it's due to copyright claims, but it seems like the shelf life of iTunes lyrics importers is about a year; took a while to find one that would work well on Macs this year, but Fabio's iTunes Lyrics Downloader has been working really well for me. Might have to switch language from Italian to English once you open it, but then all you have to do is highlight songs -> click "Download Lyrics," and presto. Not sure if it's pulling from more/better lyrics databases than previous importers, but it's doing a good job finding something for most songs.

Song clips are now a minute and a half instead of thirty seconds.

(For songs over three minutes, anyway.)

Its kinda hit or miss though, but I'm happy about it. Interesting side note though, if you have last.fm it plays long enough that it actually registers on your profile as a played track.

arcane silly question, but -- does anyone know of a script that can render all of your iTunes data (name, artist, genre, etc.) as lowercase? i just like the way it looks...

Check Dougs Apple Scripts if you are on a mac.

has a recent version of itunes on mac broken autocomplete with tag editing? it still works if you pull up the info window, but if you edit by clicking to rename in the main itunes interface there is no autocomplete. is that just me?

also, whichever version of itunes removed the cmd-r shortcut to reveal in finder: you suck.

oh right now it's cmd-shift-r because why not?

I didn't even know that shortcut existed to begin with - cool

for the technically challenged like me: is there a way, on a mac, to make the iTunes ctrl+L command (show track playing) work permanently - ie. even when iTunes is in the background?

I use Growl notifications but there are other 3rd party apps for that purpose.

hmm re Growl - you mean you have the notifications set to always remain on screen?

i thought that you were meant to be able to redownload stuff you'd already purchased from itunes without being charged again?

it lets me do it with some songs but not others :(

Is it possible you bought the others under a different Apple ID?

Mastered for iTunes

haven't heard any of it yet, kinda interested

well iTunes 11 is out and it's pretty much the slowest application of all time

I have 906GB in my iTunes library and I never get a pinwheel. Switching views is fast, editing metadata is painless. The never version is working great for me. How much RAM do you have?

I've heard conflicting reports, but if slowness is a ram issue I'm not that worried. I'll upgrade sooner or later.

6 GB ram, 300 GB library. I don't get the pinwheel, just click any view and it takes a good 5-6 seconds to switch over.

i don't have nearly that big a library, but it feels like the new one is a bit faster than 10, tbh

It's running considerably faster for me. Used to be super buggy but I haven't had any issues. I am a little peeved at how some view options were unnecessarily cut but oh well.