Thursday, 05 November 2009
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Lies and Alibis
By Jerry O'Connell, Jon Polito, Deborah Kara Unger, Steve Coogan, Ken Kerman
see relatedITunes Disaster
A couple weeks ago I did something in ITunes that I really wish I could take back. I had been having problems with songs not playing in ITunes that DID play on my IPod and also in other programs like Windows Media Player. The problem appeared to perpetuate as each week I found new songs that were experiencing the same problem. I finally discovered that one way to fix it was to do the ID3 tag conversion, but when I did it, I did not designate what version to convert it to. Each time, I left it as “none”. But it worked. As I hunted through my 17,000+ songs, I realized it might be easier just to take the rest of the songs (I was only through artists beginning with “C”) and do the conversion for all of them. Mistake. Not only did it take a few hours, it lost tons of artwork, changed the word “The” so that it would appear AFTER the artist name (such as “Cars, The”), and truncated song and album titles. I was incredulous. It did not do this for all my songs. Usually those I had added in the last few months were safe. It seems for many it converted it to the original condition they were in when I first put them in ITunes. Anyway, I am still working on fixing them and I have a ways to go. By the time I am done, I will probably do something else to destroy all the work I did, as this already feels like the third of fourth time I have had to add artwork to several albums. Very frustrating. Maybe I should just delete it all and go music free for the rest of my life.
Nah.
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