Re: MP3/Itouch/Itunes stupidity

Eric Grunin wrote:


> In any case, there are many, many reasons why iTunes might ignore the
> track number. Off the top of my head, you have to make sure that:
> 
> 1) Artist is the same for all tracks ("Webern, Anton")

Is Webern performing?  Why do people often put Composer in the Artist 
field?
And the Artist field doesn't need to be the same for all tracks.  It 
should represent who the artist is for that particular track.

> 2) Album title must be the same ("Complete Works (Craft)")

Yes, definitely.  For every CD in a boxed set too.

> 3) 'Part of a Compilation' must *not* be selected.

I set that field to "Yes" as a default for every single CD I rip. 
Same with "Gapless".


> This forces you to put the work title in every track of a multi-
> movement work ("5 Movements, Op.5 - 1 Lebhaft"), but that may not
> bother you as it does me. For me, "Album" is the work tile plus the
> performers ("Webern - Symphonie, Op.21 (Dohnanyi, Cleveland O)"), with
> Title being the movement title only. If I want to listen to a group of
> works in a certain order (I almost never do), I build a Playlist.

I use the "Group" file to put in the title of a multi-movement work.

> I spend far too much of my life editing the tags on what I rip or
> download, alas. I have Tag&Rename, but usually use a simpler product
> called mp3tag. I've also got TagScanner, but haven't used it much.

Although my music collection is in iTunes on a Mac, I use Tag&Rename a 
lot on downloaded files first before adding to iTunes.  Great program.

Steve