I’m using iTunes, and for some reason when music files go into my iTunes music folder, it won’t organize it into artist automatically even though I enabled that option in the iTunes preferences. Instead, the file just sits inside the iTunes music folder unsorted.
Hello, my impression is that you are wanting to have the iTunes folder on your computer (in the file browser) to appear organized and not within the iTunes interface itself.
If that is the case then you may have to do a few more steps to get your folders into organized heaven.
iTunes automatically organizes music based on the ID3 tags stored inside your music. These are things like Artist, Album and what-have-you. If your music came from the iTunes Music store, then this music should be already organized, however if your music has come from your private ripped music collection and you didn’t fill in this information or it was not able to be downloaded automatically from the Internet, then you are going to have to fill this in yourself. This can be true if you get your music from "other sources" and the people who ripped those didn’t do a great job in labelling the tags.
Anyhow, how you fix this is to look in your library for songs that don’t have the Artist and Album information added. An easy way to do this is to create a Smart Playlist.
Go to the File menu and select "New Smart Playlist…" then create a playlist with the following rules:
"Artist" "is" "" (basically leave the text field empty to look for all Artists who’s name is blank.)
Click the + to create another rule:
"Album" "is" "" (to look for all Album who’s name is blank.)
Change the conditions of the rule from "Match all of the following rules" to be "Match any of the following rules".
Leave Live updating checked and the other two unchecked.
Click OK and name the Playlist "Songs to tag" or something like that.
You will then have a Smart Playlist that lists all of your songs that need fixing. Just ignore the videos in your list if you don’t care about those.
Now that you’ve identified the trouble songs, then next step is to fill in the ID tags.
Click on the first song in your list and then from the File Menu do a Get Info. Fill in the correct Artist and Album information and when done that song, click the Next button below. Feel free to fill in any other information for the some such as year or track number that you know and assign a Genre. But the main ones are Name, Artist, and Album.
You also will see a check box "Part of a compilation". This means that your song is from a CD or collection that is a mixture of artists. An example would be a CD "Best of the 70′s" or a Movie Soundtrack this may include songs from various artists but are all from the same album. If this box is not checked you would find that you would have 10 or so "albums" with the same name all with just one or two songs in it. To get them all into the same album a check on this button will combine all the artists into one album.
Once you’ve done all this and you have no more songs listed in your "Songs to tag" Smart Playlist, you should have a neat and tidy iTunes Music Library folder!
Hope that helps, let me know if you need any more clarification.
Cheers, SkipR.
Highlight the songs you want to sort then right click then point your cursor to the "apply sort field" and click the "same artist".
That’s all.
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Hello, my impression is that you are wanting to have the iTunes folder on your computer (in the file browser) to appear organized and not within the iTunes interface itself.
If that is the case then you may have to do a few more steps to get your folders into organized heaven.
iTunes automatically organizes music based on the ID3 tags stored inside your music. These are things like Artist, Album and what-have-you. If your music came from the iTunes Music store, then this music should be already organized, however if your music has come from your private ripped music collection and you didn’t fill in this information or it was not able to be downloaded automatically from the Internet, then you are going to have to fill this in yourself. This can be true if you get your music from "other sources" and the people who ripped those didn’t do a great job in labelling the tags.
Anyhow, how you fix this is to look in your library for songs that don’t have the Artist and Album information added. An easy way to do this is to create a Smart Playlist.
Go to the File menu and select "New Smart Playlist…" then create a playlist with the following rules:
"Artist" "is" "" (basically leave the text field empty to look for all Artists who’s name is blank.)
Click the + to create another rule:
"Album" "is" "" (to look for all Album who’s name is blank.)
Change the conditions of the rule from "Match all of the following rules" to be "Match any of the following rules".
Leave Live updating checked and the other two unchecked.
Click OK and name the Playlist "Songs to tag" or something like that.
You will then have a Smart Playlist that lists all of your songs that need fixing. Just ignore the videos in your list if you don’t care about those.
Now that you’ve identified the trouble songs, then next step is to fill in the ID tags.
Click on the first song in your list and then from the File Menu do a Get Info. Fill in the correct Artist and Album information and when done that song, click the Next button below. Feel free to fill in any other information for the some such as year or track number that you know and assign a Genre. But the main ones are Name, Artist, and Album.
You also will see a check box "Part of a compilation". This means that your song is from a CD or collection that is a mixture of artists. An example would be a CD "Best of the 70′s" or a Movie Soundtrack this may include songs from various artists but are all from the same album. If this box is not checked you would find that you would have 10 or so "albums" with the same name all with just one or two songs in it. To get them all into the same album a check on this button will combine all the artists into one album.
Once you’ve done all this and you have no more songs listed in your "Songs to tag" Smart Playlist, you should have a neat and tidy iTunes Music Library folder!
Hope that helps, let me know if you need any more clarification.
Cheers, SkipR.
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