problem with itunes

[davemchine]

The last few cd's I have bought from itunes, and then burned cd's of, are not recognized when they are reinserted. What I mean is that the songs are not recognized, they come up without the album, artist and song information. I don't get it. Thoughts?

Dave

[papercup]

If you burned the CDs as normal AIFF music cds, the info tags are stripped from the mp3s. No more artist/song data is carried to the AIFF CD.

iTunes used to "look up" the AIFF data, and give it to you upon importing, but no more. iTunes will only identify iTunes purchased music.

[davemchine]

I don't understand. If I go to a store and buy a cd and put it into itunes it populates all of the fields. If I buy a cd from the itunes store and burn it the fields are not populated. This doesn't make sense to me.

Dave

[michaelb]

Do you have high speed access that is always on? There is a check box in the settings for itunes to search online for the info when you insert a cd. So that always works for me (not sure what exactly papercup is referring to about this not happening anymore). If you burn a custom CD though, with a mix of tracks, that will not be recognized.

Why play the tunes off the CD though? Why not just play the AAC/mp3 files in itunes when you are on the computer?

[davemchine]

I Buy the cd at home and then cut a cd for my wife to take to work. She puts it into her computer and the track info does not come up in itunes. Other cd's work fine for her, just the ones that we burn at home have problems. They are not a mix, just a straight burn of a downloaded cd. She has full time internet connection at work.


Thanks for the help and suggestions,

Dave

[deckeda]

Commercially made CDs have a Table of Contents that identifies what it is --- that's how iTunes can send a query to CDDB and CDDB spits back the album name, artist and tracks. A full, direct copy should retain that. The TOC only identifies the album, by the way, not the tracks. It's up to CDDB to have accurate database input of track names.

But burned playlists/downloaded songs etc. don't have that same TOC fingerprint that CDDB, and hence another computer, can pick up. papercup is correct --- none of it carries over to a CD you burn. In other words, AIFFs themselves don't contain metadata.

[zachdog]

Go to preferences and turn off the 2-second gap that iTunes automatically adds to each track when burning. I hate this "feature." It puts silence on the end of your tracks unnecessarily.

[BigGuynRusty]

[quote deckeda]Commercially made CDs have a Table of Contents that identifies what it is --- that's how iTunes can send a query to CDDB and CDDB spits back the album name, artist and tracks.
HUH?!?!
When did that happen?
Can you send me a link about the TOC?

BGnR

[Seacrest]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDDB#How_CDDB_Works

[BigGuynRusty]

[quote Seacrest]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDDB#How_CDDB_Works
Yep, no Table Of Contents.
Wonder how Deckada got that idea?

BGnR