Music,Computers,Programs

By Walter Defazio


Many iTunes users have difficulty navigating the program and their iPods because information is either missing or incorrect. Duplicated songs, lost album covers, and misplaced song information are the most common complaints. Luckily, there is an easy, free way that users can manually fix this information. What's even better is that this solution is performed straight through the iTunes program.

Changing your music file formats in iTunes is really fairly simple, only requiring you to open up the program's menu and selecting the "Preferences" option. After this, you will have different options, most importantly those concerning which file format or compression type to use, and also which bit rate. Though it will be addressed later, the bit rate is essentially how much data is present within each second of sound, which affects the quality of the sound as well as the file size. As far as file formats go, iTunes offers you five primary options, AAC, MP3, AIFF, WAV, Apple Lossless.

One issue you can immediately resolve is song duplicates. Click the "File" tab and scroll down to "Display Exact Duplicates". This will display all your songs that consist of the same title, artist, and album. Clicking on the column called "Date Added" will sort your songs by date. Although sorting by date is not required, it is suggested because it tends to make figuring out what you want to keep easier. Now that you can see all the duplicates of the songs, you just delete all the ones you don't wish to keep.

Another issue you can take care of is getting back missing album art. First, choose the tab called "Advanced" and then choose "Get Album Art" from the drop-down menu. This option has iTunes go through all your albums and pick out which ones are missing the cover art. Now just follow the prompts and iTunes will do all the repairing. You should know that this will only work for albums directly downloaded from iTunes.

The last problem you can manually repair is missing song names. Click on the "Advanced" tab and then choose "Get Track Names" from the drop-down menu. This will cause iTunes to find all the names for all the songs you've downloaded through the store. Again, follow the prompts and iTunes will take care of fixing missing song names. This is also limited to items downloaded from iTunes only.

Even though these three answers won't fix everything in your library, it's at least a starting point. Many users are still stuck with the majority of their libraries messed up and there is another solution for those people. You can find different programs on the internet that will automatically fix any and all glitches in your iTunes. Once you research and find a good clean-up program, you'll be able to repair the rest of your iTunes content.




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