I would use iTunes to edit the tags, with compellation albums it’s OK and actually a good thing to have the artist name in the artist name field, but make sure you put “Various Artists” in the field for Album Artist and then further down as you tab through the options there is a checkbox which says “Album is a compellation” or something like that. Make sure you check it and then these kinds of albums show up as compellation albums in the artist column if you use the column browser, but if you select the artist of a particular song and you have, for example, also another album by that artist you still see all songs by that artist. I don’t know how much music you have, but even though it may take a lot of time to fix all of this it is in the end worth it.
Regards, Sieghard From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Evan Reese Sent: Monday, April 17, 2017 12:31 PM To: [email protected] Subject: iTunes and Wrongly Tagged Audio Files Hey Guys, I have a bit of a mess on my hands. I didn’t intend it, but I accidentally imported my entire music collection into iTunes. On the one hand, it is convenient in that, to transfer music to my iPad Mini, I just go through the list of albums and check off the items I want to transfer. Unfortunately, in the process of going through that long list, I’ve discovered that some of the albums are tagged incorrectly. And, as a consequence, the library is a mess. For example, for a Various Artists collection, if there’s nothing in the Album Artist tag, then iTunes lists the album under each individual artist that’s on the album. Which means that I can’t transfer the entire album, as an album, to my iPad as I would like to be able to do, but rather have to transfer each track separately, which I don’t want to do. So, if I retag these improperly tagged albums correctly, do I just add them to the iTunes library manually? Since they’re already imported, will it remove the other files, or do I have to do that manually? If I have to remove the wrongly tagged stuff manually, I don’t see any way of doing that at the moment, so I’d be grateful for any help with that. Thanks for any advice on this. Whatever the case, it looks like I’m in for quite a bit of work as it appears that a good many of these need fixing. Evan -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: [email protected]. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
