Sunday, June 1, 2008

Re: [Apple iPod] getting track information

On 29 May 2008, at 19:48, Russ Josephson wrote:

> Thanks, Archie, for the ideas. Unfortunately, I was unable to get
> the track info on Gracenote to download. I thought it might be
> because sometimes there are bonus tracks on the CD I put into my
> iTunes library that aren't shown on Gracenote, but even when I
> highlight just ones that are listed there, they don't load.
> This feels like a preferences issue, but my preferences are set to
> download the track info, so I'm still stuck.
>
> I agree with you about the importance of typing in the information
> correctly. It IS an annoyance to have to correct the information. I
> wonder why the recording companies, labels, or distributors don't
> post the information themselves. Maybe they do, but I constantly
> find Hawaiian music that I get for a radio show I host is listed as
> "World" instead of "Hawaiian."
>
> Does anyone else have any thoughts about why I can't retrieve track
> info? Sometimes it works, but mostly it doesn't. I used to have good
> luck with this, so it's odd that it's become a problem.

You haven't said what platform you're running iTunes on, Russ. I know
SFA about PCs, but if you're on a Mc, you might try trashing the
iTunes Preferences file itself, then relaunching iTunes. That can
sometimes fix oddities like this.

HTH

Archie

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