Can someone tell me how to burn a disc using iTunes so that the tracks flow as they are intended to, without song breaks between tracks?

My burn of Baroness "The Red Album" has a horrible gap between 'Rays on Pinion" and "The Birthing," and I can tell that's supposed to be a seamless kapow.

Anyone?

Edit>Preferences, Advanced tab, Burning tab. That's where you'll find the gap between songs pull-down, goes from none to 5 seconds.

Thank you, symbol boy. My iTunes has "Preferences" under the "iTunes" tab, but it appears to have worked, and the Baroness is now flowing as it was meant to. I and the artists thank you punctuation peep advisors...

okay. i usually make fun of people confused by itunes but i cant figure this out.

i have an album that will not, under any circumstances, sort in order in my library.

all files are named and numbered correctly and have the exact same info otherwise. but it still will not change anything. what the fuck. HALP.

Make sure the tracks have the proper track number in the ID3 tags. Right click the track and get the info.

Also make sure the "Track #" column is present in the associated playlist, then click that header to sort by track number.

ive edited the id3 tags already. a few times. and nothing. i dont know what is going on at all... its just this album. the ONE album im trying to listen to/ send to others. see, the nico muhly sorts correctly.

i get that, but i dont listen in seperate playlists. i want it to be organized in the library. which is usually how things work... i cannot figure out for the life of me whats so different about this one album. i should just redownload it or something, but its maddening.

thanks for your help though.,

See if the disc number tag is consistent between all the tracks. Some might have "1 of 1" listed or "___ of 1" while others might be "___ of _____"

Or it could be that some tracks have an Album Artist in the tag.

i cleaned everything out multiple times.

Oh, the library view. Then I am thinking those ID3 tags are not all propered up. Check all the fields and make sure they are same for all the songs of that record. Sometimes you may have to check the Compilation box to group them together because iTunes fucks it up. Otherwise, there is no reason the library shouldn't look like this.

yea, i did what i could to fix the problem. im not a tard, i know how to change id3 tags. it is the first thing i do when i import something. but this is just stumping me. i just deleted the album and am importing it again. hopefully itll be fine with the new files.

you really use that view for itunes? i like things as simple and clean as possible. i dont even have album art.
and for some reason, this new version of itunes doesnt place the numbered and object named bands on top (1990's, !!!, etc) anymore. which also annoys the living hsit out of me.

this is what itunes hsould look like:

I really only really use iTunes for podcasts and playing CDs. Don't use the Library much.

That's more or less what BS Player's library looks like for me. The album artwork in iTunes library is nice if I'm just scrolling around quickly. An album cover may jump out at me or what have you. But as I said, don't use iTunes too much other than for podcasts.

Another iTubes for dummies question: RAR files.

I have downloaded a couple of programs for my Mac Book that are supposed to act like expanders. But whenever I download RAR files, I get these Quicktime MPEG files that, when I click them, cannot be opened because "they are not Movie files.

Can someone take Vivian step by step through which program to download, and exactly what to do to install/ where to put it so that my Mac Book can understand RAR files and I can start stealing more awesome records from the interwebs?

For RAR files, I use a program called 'UnRarX,' which works great.

forgo, I seem to remember having this same problem once, too. But I fixed the Disc Number tags, and the track number tags (make sure to put what track number it is out of the entire album. example Track 1 out of 14), and it fixed right up.

OK, I need some help. I ripped a cd into iTunes, but when I playback the files some songs are nothing but static. The cd itself is an original, and with no visible scratches. Don't know what to do.

do over.

Repeated the process 3 times. Same glitch in the same tracks every single time.

is it one of those Enhanced Cds or something? Really...that's kinda odd.

No, it's actually an old cd; 808 State's Ex:El. The cd plays fine, so I don't know why iTunes is being a total bitch.

do you have that error correction preference checked?

Checked the box on the second try, the glitch was still there, only it appeared on the later half of the songs.

I'm just gonna clean the cd and try it on another machine.

Does anyone ever use the "Party Shuffle" feature in iTunes? Has it been changed with newer versions or something?

It used to just randomly populate with songs form my library and i could edit the playlist on the fly.

Now, it's just got a static list of 80 songs or so (identical to another playlist i created) and it acts just like any other playlist. It doesn't update with random songs or anything like it used to do. I fucking want my Party Shuffle.

Anyone have any ideas?

i hae a question about itunes, and am a dummy, so thread resurrection seemed appropriate. got me a 1tb hard drive, don't listen to cds any more, so thought it an idea to rip my collection to lossless files so i can put the discs away. so itunes stuicks them in my 'my music' folder on c drive. i c and p them to the external, remove the tracks from my itunes and then just 'import folder'. it's a bit roundabout, but seems to work.

til now! today, whenever i open up the menu for importing a folder into itunes, i get a runtime error and the confounded thing shuts down on me. anyone know why this is the case? and how i can stop is being the case?

thanks

forgo, i think your sorting problem is probably related to the "sort field". even if the id3 tags are cleaned that can mess up the order of tracks sometime.

OK, new 2 new iTunes for Dummies question. Or internet for Vivian question, whichever you prefer.

1) I still have been unable to download software that will successfully convert RAR files to my iTunes. I have tried a couple of programs. What is the go-to program for this? Any tricks I need to know about?

2) Say I have an album or a 'Fish" that I want to share with the SOMB...what is the best free service to do this on these days?

1. .RAR is a container, not a file type. Files are inside of RARs. Simply extract the files from an RAR package with your unzip utility of choice.

2. Mediafire or Divshare or anything that is free. They are all the same if your are using the free service version.

Damo's right about .rar's, but to answer your question, I've had good luck with unRarX.

Just get WINRAR - it's free the first 40 days, and actually works just fine after the trial period.

In a related answer I use two programs to handle my music. iTunes and another (I use Roxio). When I'm importing a CD for example I rip it with Roxio as an MP3, determining what rate I want to rip it at. Then I store it in whatever folder.

When I want to import it to iTunes I use either import file or folder on iTunes.

Also, if I'm extracting a .rar or .zip file I don't automatically load it into iTunes. Again, I store it in folders, then import to iTunes from there.

OK, another basic iTunes for oldster tech retards question:

Say I download a zip-compressed compilation of MP3's (like, for example, the awesome "Explosive Rock" set that Ted Falconi unleashed in the Heavy 70's Rock thread a few days back). I unzip (or un-rar) the file, and I've got a folder of like twenty awesome songs that I want to treat as an album. But when I drag that folder into iTunes, iTunes instead recognizes it as twenty awesome songs by twenty awesome artists, and files each individual MP3 accordingly. Instead, I want iTunes to recognize "Explosive Rock" as a folder heading (or the artist, maybe?) and treat the file just like it would any other album.

If you can answer, please don't assume I know anything about how to do this. Take me through it step by step.

Vivian needs file integrity to his hard rock compilations.

Go to 'recently added', on your sidebar. Highlight all the songs on that compilation. Right-click and select 'get info'. You can keep all the separate artists, but writing 'Explosive Rock' in the 'album artist' field will collect them all for your various album views.

That's what I do for compilations.

I use iTunes all the time and the way I get around this is by creating a playlist (Temp or Temp2 etc) and have it there for new stuff which I import. Good thing about iTunes is that it can import directly into a playlist.

Clear the playlist out before transferring it in (if needed). Then drag it all in there. They'll still be all over your library, but will be together in your playlist.

Select all the songs you imported, change them to the same album name and in the options tab, make them part of a compilation. When viewing my library, I always have the 'Browse' option on, so you can select either an artist or an album easily. (Don't know how to do this? When viewing library, just go Ctrl+B )

That way, when you go back to your library, simply scroll down the album list to find the compilation you just made.

Hope that helps...

Too much complication.

Simply select any number of tracks you wish to be part of an album, CTRL(CMD)+I, tick "Part of Compilation" in the info tab. Press ok.

iTunes works best with uniform tag information. I leave it up to you how detail obsessed you want to get with that. But the basics are-- group those tracks as part of the same compilation.

With iTunes I have a pretty simple setup. I have my "official" iTunes folder with everything that goes onto the iPod at some point. I have another folder called "preview" which has a bunch of shit in it that I need to listen to to decide if it's good enough for the iPod, or to keep in general. When I decide it's good enough after a quick WMP listen, I create a folder in the iTunes folder with that band name, and then an album subdirectory. When I want to load a new collection of songs into iTunes, I don't waste time with the itunes menu, but rather simply drag the folders of the new songs directly into the iTunes application itself(music library section). This will load the new items into your library and then synch to your iPod.

Actually, that makes much more sense.

I still like to pimp the Browser option though. Surprisingly, not many of my mates use it.

I simply make sure all my digital music files are properly tagged. Created an alphabetized network folder (Artists Folder->Album Folder) and add everything to that folder accordingly. iTunes automatically scans and adds all music (and video + podcasts) to the library. Proper metatags mean I never fuss about trying to find songs belonging to the same compilation.

This is why I rarely bother with files people upload. They are almost always poorly tagged and it is simply not worth my time to tag them properly.

I wouldn't even bother to listen to an upload if I see the files are poorly tagged. Right to the trash bin.

Anyone know if it is possible to have the volume of a playlist normalized to the same level? Some songs are louder than others and this can be problematic when trying to put together a cohesive mix and you can't mind the computer.

i'd like to know about that as well, i have checked the option that is supposed to play everything at the same level but it doesn't work.

Select any number of songs in a playlist, CTRL+I. Go to the Options tab. There is a volume adjustment slider there. Set the range, tick the box and press ok.

Doesn't that just uniformly boost or decrease the volume, rather than actually measuring the volume of each file one versus another?

Yes, that is the only way to control volume uniformly. Soundcheck & Sound Enhancer do the same roughly. There is no normalize volume within a playlist in iTunes.

Will the volume slider option for playlists carry over to a cd you burn? That's been the biggest issue for me, as the supposed checkbox in iTunes hasn't worked.

Yes, it will. But iTunes soundcheck works with limited effectiveness depending on the file type and bit rate. On Apple's own AAC files, it works fairly well given high enough bitrate. Especially noticeable when playing on an iPod. Other files types and bit rates...it gets a bit sketchy. At least that has been my experience as a Mac & PC user.

So my Mac's hard drive crashed, and apparently, all of my iTunes folder went down with it.

I was able to get the hard drive replaced, but did not have anything saved to an external. I do, however, have all of he data on my iPod.

I hear there may be a way to upload everything from the iPod to iTunes despite itunes proprietary issues. Googling it finds a way to do this to a PC/ Windows system.

Anyone have any ideas?

Do not have iTunes running or launching when you plug your iPod back in. Everything on the iPod will be erased once iTunes starts up.

Use this: http://www.tuaw.com/2007/02/06/ipoddisk/ or this; http://expod.joynt.net/

Those look good, especially the first one since it removes DRM. I've always used this AppleScript applet.

This happened to me once. You have no idea how traumatic an experience this was.

Just make sure you're not on automatic sync mode, you should be fine.

Turning off auto-sync would prevent iTunes from erasing the iPod. But most people have no idea what auto-sync is or what it does. Figured "iTunes for Dummies Questions" would not be the place to expect people to know what auto-sync is either.

Nobody believes in backing up their data till they have a catastrophic disk crash.