Hi,
When you insert a CD, iTunes remembers the settings you use on a per
CD basis, and stores the information in a file named "CD Info.cidb"
under the Library/Preferences folder for your user account. This
contains the information that shows up for the CD for your machine.
If you are not connected to the internet when you insert the CD, then
there will be no automatic lookup of the information in the Gracenote
database, and the tracks will simply be "Track 1", "Track 2", etc. and
the tags will be "Unknown Artist" and "Unknown Album", etc. If you
edit any of these fields manually, the tags will be what you last
input into for these fields. If you join tracks before importing in
iTunes by following the instructions to select all (Command-A) tracks
in the songs table for the CD, and then using the Advanced menu option
to join tracks (VO-m to navigate to the menu bar; press "A" to go to
the "Advanced menu"; arrow down; press "J" to go to the "Join CD
Tracks" option), then the next time you insert that same CD it will
appear with the tracks joined, unless you unjoined them before you
ejected the CD. After you have joined tracks, when you navigate to
the "Advanced menu" on the iTunes menu bar there will be an option to
"Unjoin CD tracks". These options only appear (as undimmed) when you
have first selected tracks in the songs table for the CD. If you have
gone off and played and selected other tracks in your iTunes library
while the CD was importing you may have to click in the songs table
for the CD and select all again (Command-A) before trying to use the
"Unjoin CD tracks" option in the iTunes Advanced menu. Incidentally,
you can join any set of consecutive tracks on the CD. If you have an
audio book CD with three different stories on a CD, you can import
this with, for example, tracks 1-5 joined as story 1, tracks 6-11
joined as story 2, and tracks 12-20 joined as story 3. Each time you
have to select the set of contiguous tracks in the songs table for the
CD, then navigate to the "Advanced menu" to select "Join CD tracks"
for that group. Then, once you have the tracks joined as you want,
press the import CD button. Once again, iTunes will remember that
these tracks are joined the next time you insert the same CD (unless
you unjoin them).
These settings (the tags you use for tracks that you can edit with the
Command-I Get Info keyboard shortcut and whether tracks are joined)
are remembered on a per-CD basis, so when you insert a different CD
you don't have to worry about whether the "Join CD tracks" selection
was made.
The description of "How iTunes remembers audio CDs" is given in the
Apple knowledge base document:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TA27785
but it's pretty much as I've summarized above. You can read through
the article if you want to know, for instance, where the corresponding
file is located on a Windows iTunes set up.
HTH.
Cheers,
Esther
On 23 Oct 2008, at 13:25, Chris Gilland wrote:
OK, I was actually wondering how to do this. Thanks for the tip.
Now, after I import that disc, how do I make sure that the next CD
I import would not have the tracks all joined together?
Chris.
On 23 Oct 2008, at 12:14, Jacob Schmude wrote:
Hi
You can do this with iTunes, actually. Put the cd in and when it
ask if you'd like to import, tell it no. Then, go to the track
list on the cd that shows up, select all, and select join cd
tracks from the advanced menu. Now press the import cd button
down at the bottom of the window, and it will do what you want.
Naturally, remember to set your encoding preferences first, as
you don't need anywhere near as high audio quality for most books
as you would for music.
On Oct 23, 2008, at 03:14, Will Lomas wrote:
hello to all
I have a book from the library on cd. but rather then sitting by
my CD player all the time i want to rip the eight disks and play
them on my victor stream portable player.
So my question is is there a way like with CD EXE on windows, to
rip one audio cd into one mp3 file so rather than 14 tracks can
I somehow rip the whole lot and have cd1.mp3
and then once finished have eight disks, one mp3 per disk?
I hope someone can advise
