Originally Posted by
racingmars:
“not going to lie, not sure what you mean.
the files were originally downloaded, and self organised following the download. what is happening is i have 5 album folders, all by the same artist with a directory named with the artists title.
when i use itunes to add the folders to the itunes library it picks out two songs and sets them up in different folders with a different artists name. despite this, when you look at the song file itself, it still says the orignal artist. as such i am lost as to what to do.
please help,
cheers
”
Your files are probably not tagged properly. Tags are extra information about a song that are hidden inside it. The name of the file is not a tag so it would not make a difference if you called it 'The Queens late night bath.mp3' when adding it to iTunes. The kind of info you can tag on a music track are things like Artist, Album, Year, Genre, Composer, track number, BPM etc.
Here is what you need to do in iTunes.
- If all of the songs are by the same artist, highlight all of the songs (click one, then while holding ctrl, click the next and so on).
- When all are highlighted, right click and press Get Info. This will bring up the details for the tracks.
- In the Artist section, type in the name of the artist. Press OK.
Now all of those tracks should belong to the same artist. So all you need to do is sort the albums out.
- Select all the songs that belong to Album 1. Right click and press Get Info. Enter the Album name in the album field. Press OK.
- Do the same for the other 4 albums.
After this is done, you should notice that there should be one folder for the artist in iTunes Music, and in that folder, separate folders for each album made by that artist.
Make sure you have browser mode in iTunes. Click View > Show Browser. This makes it easier to see that your Artists/albums are tagged correctly. Some people might have the following as 3 separate artist entries:
R Kelly
R. Kelly
R.Kelly
This means that R Kelly tracks in their collection are not all tagged with an identical Artist name. Notice the subtle differences. As iTunes works as a database, the artist name would need to be the same so you would select all those R Kelly files, right click, Get Info, and put in one common Artist name.
And thats basically how iTunes works. Quite simple and brilliant when you get your head around it and forget about file names and folder names....just let iTunes do the hardwork for you.
