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Aargh. Anyone know why when I burn songs to a cd from iTunes, then import the songs to iTunes on other computer, I lose all the song info? So aggravating.
(ita): I've been burning my DRMed stuff out to CD and then re-importing it. I lose played statistics, but iTunes has tagged the songs correctly otherwise.
Searching back in the thread, it sounds like there's some way to do it. Help?
If you burn an audio CD, the tag information will be lost. If you just copy the tracks (i.e. not using iTunes), much of it will be kept (you'll lose ratings, at the very least).
So drag and drop to the disk?
Anyone know why when I burn songs to a cd from iTunes, then import the songs to iTunes on other computer, I lose all the song info? So aggravating.
When you burn the songs to CD, are you just making a regular music CD? If so, then all the info gets lost at that point (that's just the nature of a music CD - it doesn't store that info). And when you stick the CD into the other computer, I think the CDDB database lookup won't recognize the album you made, because it'll be subtly different from the original one.
eta: x-posty....
Yup, Brenda.
I think the CDDB database lookup won't recognize the album you made, because it'll be subtly different from the original one.
I've not had problems with this. My burns of entire albums have so far been like enough for Gracenote (née CDDB) to cough up the info.
I've not had problems with this. My burns of entire albums have so far been like enough for Gracenote (née CDDB) to cough up the info.
Oh. Maybe what I'm thinking of is if you make a CD that is not an exact track-by-track duplicate of an album, CDDB won't recognize it.
I think it works by the pattern of tracks and intervals.
Now you're going to make me go read up on it.
Cool, thanks.
Here's a more fun question. My new place is prewired for surround sound. I don't even know what that means. What shiny new toys do I need to acquire to take advantage?
Speakers, I would imagine. And either a receiver or a sound card that can handle surround sound, depending on whether you're hooking up your stereo or your computer.
t waits for the actual knowledgeable people to speak up
Come to think of it, it was iTunes that identified that classical piano fraud. In that case iTunes recognized one specific track as being from another album.
So I don't know what I'm talking about? Or do I?