Hi all,

Have just started using Itunes today, trying to sort out my music into an easy to use library so that I can find things easily - but Itunes is driving me mental!!!

How come when I import an album from a CD, Itunes just appears to randomly place tracks in the file library wherever it pleases & not in the same order as on the CD?? It's driving me mad.

Please, is there an easier/quicker alternative to Itunes that can still be used to sync Ipod's?



TSC.

BFMF wrote on Jul 27^th, 2008 at 1:16pm:

Your not helping much Andy. 



TSC.

opinion: download limewire and buy a pirate hat

Dr.bob7 wrote on Jul 27^th, 2008 at 8:41pm:

You haven't seen this weeks papers over here have you?  

Illegal music downloads.

I have discovered that if I rip a CD into WMP first, I can drag & drop the whole album into a new playlist in Itunes without Itunes screwing up the order of the tracks - it will still place tracks in any order in the main music file though.  

Itunes really is a terrible piece of software - maybe Mr Gates isn't so bad after all?  

TSC.

There are other places on the web where you can purchase music legally. You can even use music subscription services like Rhapsody

I've been an iPod fan for some years - great piece of techno. Intuitive use, with truly gapless playback (essential for opera and long symphonies, like wot I listen to). Stick with iTunes, it's not that bad once you get used to it. Here's what I do to get the tracks exactly where I want them.

Open iTunes, and then insert the CD you want to rip. iTunes will display the disc contents - but don't rip immediately. Highlight all of the tracks and right-click - choose 'get info'. Amend the fields to say what you want (this defines where the are put in iTunes and the iPod), and then rip. Hey presto, the music's exactly where you want it.

iTunes will rip as mp3 (I use 192kbps) or AAC, your choice.

If you need any more assistance, I'll be more than happy to help.

microlight wrote on Jul 28^th, 2008 at 1:35pm:


+1

I don't have any trouble with iTunes, and I love my iPod, especially for the purposes mentioned above ......long train journeys have never been the same

.mic

Oh, and those who say iPods break to quickly.....I've had mine for 3 years now, and it still works as well as the day it came out of the box

EDIT: On second thoughts, last week I did accidently delete all my album artwork while trying to add one more cover.....took me aes to put all those on

That's strange, I have always imported tons of CDs to iTunes and it keeps the song order...

BFMF wrote on Aug 9^th, 2008 at 12:12am:


LOL hard metal and very compact and no screen (meh) and 1 cm by 2 cm it gonna not break

My ipod was great for all the time it worked...which wasn't all that long...maybe a year...then it just died. I still have it, but there's no way we'll get it going again...

My main complaint to do with ipods though has to be how regularly apple change the design, in order to get people to always need to have the newest ipod...apple aren't the only people that do this and I hate the practice in general...