iTunes: Trials and Tribulations

It was the "convert to aac 128kbps" button that was causing the problem, i disabled it and all was ok again.

Keeping in mind that I've not been too useful with solutions to iTunes problems, could you have tracks from multiple disc issues? Perhaps iTunes has ordered all the tracks from Disc 2s to after all the Disc 1 tracks?

Are you talking about creating "artificial" disc 2, 3 etc.? That could help me group the tracks in bolks, but I would still have to edit each track manually to have all the tracks from single scores together.

No. What I am referring to is maybe something that doesn't affect you. When 2-CD sets are bought as downloads sometimes the file names are labeled with something like (Disc 2) at the beginning of the file name, or the file is tagged to tell you that the track is from the second disc.

When you list all these tracks from different albums they tend to be ordered alphabetically by file name (which is usually equivalent to track number because the file name tends to begin 01, 02, 03, etc). But with some tracks that begin (Disc 2) 01, (Disc 2) 02, etc these will be arranged to the top of any list ordered by alphabetical order.

I am not sure I am helping.

Alan - I haven't searched through the iTunes store in a really long time but I assume finding new stuff is pretty much identical to the way the store was configured a few years ago when I last used it. You should be able to search for music by genre. Find the MUSIC tab on the top column and then select SOUNDTRACKS. On the SOUNDTRACKS page, right in front of you, you should see a heading called NEW AND NOTEWORTHY. Browse through the albums displayed or click SEE ALL to see all the NEW AND NOTEWORTHY soundtrack releases. When you select SEE ALL look at the top right hand corner and you will see SORT BY tab. Select RELEASE DATE.

-Erik-

Let me just rephrase in more simple terms:

Is there any way to re-sequence the order of tracks without manually typing in the number on each track?

When you have close to 100 tracks in one album to sort out, it's a heck of a job!

I see. So there's no way of re-inserting that playlist as an album proper once I've ordered them there?

Great. Seems like I have the work cut out for me.

Is this an isolated incident or is this happening with all of your albums?

-Erik-

Not sure what's going on but seems like others have been experiencing the same problem. You might want to read through the following threads to find your answer.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/32 … p;tstart=0
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/32 … p;tstart=0
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/18 … p;tstart=0

Hope that helps?

-ERik-

Thanks! That helped.

Hopefully, iTunes will remedy this bug by their next update.

Strange. When I click the album cover in the lower, left corner of the player, it's supposed to pop up in a separate window. But it doesn't happen. The player just "blinks", but no window appears.

Not a big deal, but a bit annoying.

Anyone?

I imported some wav-files into iTunes (and I presume they converted the files to appropriate format in the process), but now I can't seem to add an album cover for them. The files are not write-protected. Whazzap?

Yeah, it's a pain in the ass to do that work inside iTunes itself. I should really find another way. Another annoying thing is that if you play the tracks in cover view (which I prefer), it's all jumbled, but if I play them in the track listing view, they'll obviously play in the correct order.

I have a suspicion the reluctance to add artwork is because the files are wav.