I have been ripping CDs from my music library for several months. Until a few days ago, this automatic tagging in the grouping field was not happening. Anyway, can someone inform me as to how I can instruct iTunes to not tag the grouping field? Thank you. Posted on Oct 16, PM. According to their website dBpoweramp uses online meta-data from Discogs, GD3, SonataDB Classical , MusicBrainz and freedb simultaneously to retrieve track names and high resolution Album Art , so yes, iTunes is simply revealing data that has been captured from elsewhere.
The iTunes grouping field matches up with sub-genre or mood in other media players. In future you should probably be able to clear that field before you rip, although it isn't an app that I've used. Posted on Oct 18, PM. Page content loaded. It is occasionally set for classical music to link together separate movements from a work. The values given would be more likely to show up as the genre for the tracks. Are you saying this information has ended up in the wrong field?
Once media is in your library iTunes shouldn't update any of the tags although it may at some point reveal data added by another application. Oct 18, AM. Oct 18, PM in response to turingtest2 In response to turingtest2. It seems I cannot type into it at the import stage — although later after importing one can. Does anyone know how this page fits in to all the above? It would just replace the previous contents of the Grouping field with the one tag you would have liked to be added.
You have to tag all of your songs one by one. I wonder if there exists a script which can manage tags appropriately in that way. I found the grouping field to be useful in my music collection because I listen to music in 3 different languages, English, Korean, and Japanese.
Sometimes I just want to listen to songs in one of those three languages so the having the language of the song filled in the grouping field and having that field being displayed in iTunes really simplified that process. If only my iPod Classic would support playing by the Grouping field, my life would be complete. Oh well. This relates to the reply made by Peter last April regarding using grouping to keep various album titles grouped together ie multiple CDs in one box set, each with a differing album title.
He said that using the grouping field he could tag all the CDs within the same set and keep them together. What I need to know is if this affects the coverflow view or album grid to group these albums under ONE art. It seems the only way to merge differently tagged tracks is if the ALBUM title is the same even if their are multiple artists.
Is there any way to merge these tracks under one album art while retaining the different album names? I have a lot of different jazz groups that have overlapping members and such. I have the artist as the person who actually released the album, and under the grouping, I put that artists name as well as any prominent artists that I have other music for.
That way, I can use the grouping tag to create smart playlists that have those artists songs over all the different albums from different artists, whether it be one song from the album or all of the songs.
I was thinking of using the grouping column to organize original release dates of songs. I like the tagging idea as well… It would be a pain to edit each track and it would be a constant tweak. I put multiple genres in the genre column and use smart playlists sort them out. I have an alternative rock playlist that has about 10 playlist dedicated to the genre. I also have folders for country, classic rock, rock and others. Nice to read familiar problems on here! Genre, in turn, is used for sub-genres e.
I then couple that with dynamic, smart playlists and my music stays wonderfully sorted. And Sort options help, too. I collect tons of metal and folk music from around the world. It just shows that you can really use it for anything you want.
I am pushing GB of metal, it helps to geographically organize it!! Bands, so on and so forth. Still to this day, I do this with all my genres for my music theory classes and for production styles of every record label.
Time is precious. Yet people spend it fretting about a data field in iTunes? Beethoven: Trio in B flat, Op. Scherzo, allegro e. Brahms: Piano Concerto No. Pingback: better iTunes categorizations, tip 1 tape dec. Not all of the stuff on my media machine comes from CD. I have hundreds of vinyl LPs and 45s — even some 78s — that I digitized.
I put my catalog number in grouping so I can trace a cut back to the original medium, e. I came across this while searching for what the grouping section was actually for and what it can do, and some of your ideas are brilliant.
My idea and the reason I wanted to know what the grouping section was for, it to use to to tag music as explicit. This may seem like a stupid idea as itunes puts an explicit tag on music, but this is only music from the itunes store. What if you have music from a cd, or get if from another source and what if itunes gets it wrong. As there is no way to manually put an explicit tag on music without using 3rd party software, that often creates other problems later on.
This method could then be used when creating play lists, especially when children are involved. A one time sort of your library could very easily save you lots of time when creating playlists. One more idea if you like to dance.
I put the dance I would normally do to the music into the grouping. This fact along with BPM and Rating can go a long way in creating Genius Playlists or manual ones as well as choosing music on the fly in a class or at a dance. I arrange the music by year and week number, meaning that for music I listened to in this week, I would write in the Grouping field.
Greg, that would be a great idea. Dance for me is so important, that it IS the genre of my music, i. On the other hand, I am having a hard time trying to categorize tango music. Finally, I realized the orchester has to always be the artist. But then, where to add the information about the singer…?
Can anyone explain how I can enter the Bpm for each song…. Does anyone know how and where I can find the data via Windows 10 File Explorer?
Your email address will not be published. Recipe Rating. Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Notify me of new posts by email. I use this platform to share things that are of interest to me or things I'll want to reference later. Occasionally other people like these posts, hence "Shared Interests". If the album is not a compilation however, any tracks which list guest artists may be treated as separate items. Filling in the Album Artist field is enough to link things in iTunes.
Sadly, however, most iPod models ignore the Album Artist field when grouping albums so this is only a partial solution. You can simply mark the entire album as a compilation which seems to be the way iTunes often handles it, however that's not an ideal fix. Short of waiting for Apple to address this issue and as far as I can tell it goes back to the 1st gen. What I do is to put any additional artist info. Track [Feat. For anthologies where the Album Artist is credited as part of another group, e.
For a track where the main Album Artist doesn't receive a credit, e. Since firmware version 3. Therefore it may still be best to implement the Track [Feat.
Occasionally different tracks from the same album can have different values in these sort fields which can also break up the grouping. Tiny differences such as trailing spaces, accented characters or variants of symbols can sometimes be quite hard to spot.
The iPod is also more sensitive to case variations and may split, duplicate or reorder an album that looks okay in iTunes. Normally overtyping the desired value for each shared field will complete the grouping of the album into one entity.
Occasionally, however, this method seems to fail. When this happens I've found that you can force every field to update properly by adding some extra text - e. Once this has happened the extra data can be removed and the album should remain properly grouped. A worked example Multiple tags The ID3 specifications allow files to have multiple tags in different versions and languages, but iTunes only works properly with single tags.
This could lead to situations in which everything is properly organised in iTunes but then inexplicably falls apart on an iPod.
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