Song ratings, for example, will not be overwritten, as the My Ratings checkbox is unchecked. In the example above, the Artist, Year, Genre, Album, and total disc and track numbers will be written to all 12 tracks. When you click O.K., the only changes that will be applied to all tracks will be those fields that have their check box selected. The following window will appear:Īny changes that you make here will be applied to all of the selected tracks. Next, right click (command-click for Mac) on any one of the tracks, and go to “Get Info” as we did for a single track. Hold down “Shift” and click the last song). (Select the first song with a single click. To edit many similar tracks at once, begin by selecting the group of tracks in your library. Why enter them all in over and over? You don’t have to. Usually, tracks on an album have a common genre, artist, comment, year, and release date. Often, the process can be simplified by tagging in groups – one for each album. The methods shown above are fine for fixing spelling or making other corrections on any one song at a time, but they are quite tedious when filling tags for many tracks at a time. Tagging multiple tracks with common information: To do so, right click (or Command-click on a Mac) on the track, and go to “Get Info.” The window shown below will open, and you may edit any of the attributes shown. To edit a tag in a hidden column, you need to open the track’s “Get Info” window. This method is quick and easy for the occasional tag fix, but you may encounter a problem when using this method-often, all fields are not displayed in the iTunes library or in a playlist… Sometimes the column you want to change is hidden. Type your correction or addition, and hit enter. The tag will change to a text entry field.
(This tip also works from within any playlist!) Next, click once on the tag that you want to change.
ITunes offers several ways to correct or add a tag to one file.įirst, try selecting any song in your iTunes library. Also, for users who acquire their songs through “shady” means, the tag information is hardly ever complete and accurate, if present at all. However, CDDB is a user-filled database, so frequently, the tag information downloaded from CDDB has misspellings, errors, or simply doesn’t come “the way you’d like it.” Sometimes, CDDB won’t even have information for the CD you’re importing.
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This is especially true for iPod users, as tags are the only means by which the iPod and iTunes understand how to categorize your music.Īs we discussed in a previous iPod 101 article, the Gracenote CDDB online database makes tagging extremely easy for most users importing CDs. Anyone who has a large collection of digital music understands the importance of and value in maintaining a correct and complete set of tags for their music.
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