Thanks very much, Sieghard. Your help / instruction on this has been amazing. I'm confident I can make this happen with the knowledge you have imparted in your several emails today on this topic.
I have a fair number of older CDs ripped that are not well-tagged; they were ripped probably 7 to 10 years ago, and other than my putting in the album name at that time, the title, tracks artist, and genre fields are largely untagged.. I'll be careful not to put them in iTunes. Thanks for the warning. Best, Keith -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sieghard Weitzel Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2012 3:32 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: Syncing music; was: I no longer see my iphone in itunes when I connect the phone Hi Keith, First, I'd make sure all these ripped songs are properly tagged with artist, album, song title etc. It really gets messy in iTunes if that is not the case. OK, if they are, you could either copy all these files into the "Automatically Add to iTunes" folder which on a PC is in "My Music", "iTunes", "iTunes Media". Make sure iTunes is closed when you do that and then open it. It should see all the files in that folder and automatically move them into the Music folder. You could also just move the entire folder into the iTunes Media folder and call it, for example, Ripped Music". Then open iTunes, go to "File" and "Add Folder to library". Now browse to the "Ripped CD" folder, and click on "Select". Depending on how much is in it the import process may take a while, but you will hear that tri-tone iTunes makes when it's done doing stuff and the music should now show up in your music library. Do you use the Column browser in iTunes? I find it the easiest way to find and play music I want. Go to the "View" menu, then arrow down to "Column Browser" which is a submenu. Arrow right to open it and then check Genre, Artist, Albums and I also check the "Group Compilations". Now if you tab past your list view of all your music you get to pull-down lists for Genre, Artist and Album. If, for example, you select "Rock" as the Genre and then tab to artists, you only see artists who are in the genre. Then select, for example, Dire Straits and tab to Albums and if you have 5 Dire Straits Albums those are the only ones you see. Go back to your music library list view and you only see all the songs from those 5 albums, select one particular album and you only see the songs from that album. Good luck, Sieghard -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
