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iTunes (was) annoying me

September 12, 2007 at 07:44 · Filed under life

For the last 10 years I used winamp for playing music, no matter the built-in Windows Media player releases or all the other freeware-shareware-opensource mp3 players, I always loved winamp. But now Steve (probably) force me to use iTunes. I mean, it’s easy to be attracted by the cover flow functionality present in the latest iPods, so I start importing my music library to iTunes.

1st attempt = pain in the a**, everything was messed up. So I started cleaning with the application Tag&Rename every mp3 metadata (ID3v1 and ID3v2) and adding one album a time. Even caring every single file, the fecking iTunes was splitting the songs of the same album in different ones. Before giving it up I realized that if you:

select all the files of the same album
right-click and clear the “Album Artist” and the “Album”, then OK
right-click and set “Album Artist” and the “Album”, even the same as before!

Tada! Now all the song are associated with the same album. All you need now is a cover and for that just stick in Google words like: “cover” “cd” and try few of those sites. Probably there’s a better way, but for the moment this is what I found.
I’m sure Antonio knows some interesting tricks with iTunes! And what about you Ilaria?

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Antonio said,

September 12, 2007 @ 10:52

of course FillyFilly I know few tricks
just a question, have you set up your itune as a master for mp3 file management?
unfortunately I did and it has created a lot of new folders. For ex. I had 1 folder for each artist including all the released CDs…but after i renamed the files (as you did), i have a folder for each record and the main one is gone

Then, I strong suggest this freeware software: iTunes Art Importer
If you have to download covers in a quick way and attach them to the mp3 at the same moment you dfinitely have to go for iTunes Art Importer .
Open both Itunes and Art importer, then Just select the mp3s in iTunes for 1 album, then launch the search button and this software will do a query in Amazon.com and will propose few covers (size 220×220) at the bottom .
Choose the one you like and the cover will be added to the files. Very easy and quick and you don’t need to use Google Image.
Bear in mind that if you select mp3s from different artists and different albums, the importer will execute the query only for the cover of the first album in your selection.

ciao