[macvoiceover] Re: mass tagging in itunes

  • From: "Marty Rimpau" <mrimpau@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:22:16 -0700

Hi Sam, try emailing Steve at
steve@xxxxxxxxxxx
and ask him regarding the archives, but I know he wasn't feeling well
on Wednesday, so that may have something to do with the archive of the
latest show not being there.  
On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:26:23 -0400, Sam Troia wrote:

Marty, I went looking through the archives on the AT Maine site but  
the show for wed. Oct. 21 doesn't seem to be available.  I even used  
the search feature.

On Oct 23, 2009, at 7:00 PM, Marty Rimpau wrote:

> Hi Sam, Steve Sawczyn commented on this very thing on his assistive  
> technology show on Wednesday at
> http://www.atmaine.com
> and said that he didn't like the comcept of itunes always having to  
> add to a library, and that if things weren't propperly id3 tagged,  
> that they couldn't be found, so for what it's worth, you might want  
> to give the latest Wednesday show from a couple days ago a listen in  
> the archives.
>
> On Oct 23, 2009, at 1:39 PM, Sam Troia wrote:
>
>> Ok, but are you searching for these untagged items in itunes  
>> itself?  Doing the search that way I generally can't get the entire  
>> album to come up.  If I browse my music drive in finder, there's no  
>> way to then get that folder into itunes.  Perhaps I'm missing some  
>> crucial element.
>>
>> On Oct 23, 2009, at 4:10 PM, Ricardo Walker wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I'm a little confused.  What do you mean you can only add 1 song  
>>> at a time?  Well when I have a bunch of stuff I want to put in  
>>> iTunes and tag, I find what I want to add.  For example a folder  
>>> full of stuff from the stones.  I check how many songs are in the  
>>> folder then I add it to iTunes.  Then I go to my recently added  
>>> playlist.  Now the content of the folder you just added is all  
>>> together either at the beginning or end of the songs table  
>>> depending on how you have it set up.  Highlight the group of songs  
>>> and press command I.  now you can group  tag artist, album, genre,  
>>> and so on.
>>>
>>> hth
>>> On Oct 22, 2009, at 11:55 PM, Sam Troia wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi, all,
>>>>
>>>> I'm building a very large playlist in itunes and, since my  
>>>> library is very old, a great many of the older things don't have  
>>>> id3 tags which makes it a royal pain to search for these albums  
>>>> and songs since itunes really doesn't like things with no tags.   
>>>> Is there a way of mass tagging a given album assuming I could get  
>>>> it into itunes as a whole in the first place?  I would like to  
>>>> correct a lot of this but I haven't found any way of getting  
>>>> these albums into itunes as a whole except for one lousy song at  
>>>> a time.  Of course since itunes won't make album names from  
>>>> folder names, these albums can't be browsed for in any way.  I  
>>>> don't hold out much hope but any help to make this job easier is  
>>>> very welcome.  Thanks.
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