Comments on: Will iTunes recognize song titles on CDs?

Question: Will iTunes recognize song titles on CDs?

Frank Grimes — Sat, 17 Jan 2004 13:27:34 -0800

How do I get iTunes to recognize song titles on CD's when I put them in my drive? My roommate just got a Mac and I'm trying to help him put all of his CD's on it without having to type in song names.

Nevermind, I got it.

By: silusGROK

silusGROK — Sat, 17 Jan 2004 13:47:28 -0800

Hey Frank...

Since you figured that out, I'm guessing you already know that highlighting one or more titles and pressing cmd-I will get you a window that will let you edit the song attributes.

Very handy, for example, when an attribute is wrong for an entire album (Hotie and the Blowfish?), you can just re-write that _one_ attribute for all the titles you selected.

By: mecran01

mecran01 — Sat, 17 Jan 2004 17:38:53 -0800

Or hitting cmd-a (select all) then go to "advanced" and click on "get track info (cddb)" or something like that. And be connected to the internet.

By: zorrine

zorrine — Sun, 18 Jan 2004 09:42:10 -0800

on the off-chance that this will be seen, would someone mind actually posting the answer to this question rather than just saying it has been figured out?
thanks.

By: kindall

kindall — Sun, 18 Jan 2004 10:35:09 -0800

Well, basically, make sure you have an Internet connection so iTunes can go look them up in CDDB. No Internet connection, no track name lookup.

By: ook

ook — Sun, 18 Jan 2004 16:55:03 -0800

Specifically, under "general preferences", make sure "connect to internet when necessary" is checked.

By: zorrine

zorrine — Mon, 19 Jan 2004 12:36:13 -0800

awesome. thanks very much.