Easy way to fix iTunes import order (Windows version - 10.1 build 22)

[pctech]

I'm asking in here as it is an Apple product.

I use iTunes to manage my music library which I use with an iPod for work.

I've just imported an album and its retrieved the track names from Gracenote, the numbering is there but tracks are out of sequence. as its a gapless DJ mix album which is beat matched it'd sound odd if the tracks are out of order.

If I put the album into its own playlist the numbering goes from 1-13 but tracks are still out of order.

It does not appear possible to sort by number in the main music list, anyone know of a free plugin that would do this for me?

[Simon]

Does this help, Mitch?

[Steve]

I agree except I would just >get info and possibly edit track number and possibly disc number

[pctech]

Thanks for your replies.

Didn't seem to work straight off but a few clicks of the Album by Artist heading seemed to force them into order.

Never had that problem before, weird

[Steve]

I'm guessing Gracenote has tagged it as a 'different' album.


MusicBrainz Picard (free) or Tune up are better 'taggers' than iTunes

[pctech]

I buy a compilation that comes out from a german distrivutor about every three months and surprisingly it copes perfectly with those and there was only one that didn't pick up.

This one is slightly more mainstream and all the tracks were recognised on the CD listing itself and were ordered correctly but it was when I went to import them that it screwed up.

Now for disc two.

[Steve]

I hope you've got the error correction enabled if your importing using iTunes,it's not bad in that mode for ripping pristine CDs otherwise if you want decent rips in Windows I would invest in DBpoweramp which has error correction built in.

[Rik]

Now for disc two.

Here endeth the first lesson, eh Mitch?

[pctech]

Indeed.

As for error correction, never had an issue with iTunes, rips have always been ok.

My only trouble now is that I have so much music the 8GB isn't enough, i think when I start driving I'll get a classic for the car.

[pctech]

its done disc two with no problems at all.

[Rik]

My only trouble now is that I have so much music the 8GB isn't enough, i think when I start driving I'll get a classic for the car.

I found the same problem, Mitch, 8GB quickly becomes too small.

[Lance]

I've got 32gb on my iPhone

[pctech]

Some of us take the old Apple slogan literally and think different so don't have an iPhone 

[Steve]

Certainly saves a lot of bulk when you only have to carry one item, especially when the sound quality of the said item is pretty good.

[Gary]

I have about 14Gb of music on my 32Gb iPhone, its so handy to have my music with me and sounding good as well plus some family guy and a few music videos. I also never use the error correction on CD's and have not noticed any issues...yet 

[Steve]

Error correction is especially useful if your ripping to  AIFF or ALAC with iTunes,I always rip lossless whether flac or Apple formats especially since HDDs are so cheap these days space is not an issue. Then at least you know you've got a perfect copy, you can always convert to a lossy format later if need be for your iPod etc. As far as I am aware a computer reads an audio CD differently than a data CD i.e normally with a data CD error correction is invoked so any difficult to read areas are re read multiple times but with an audio CD this is not the case, any difficult read areas will therefore be interpreted first pass whether that be as a distortion, a skip etc.

The ultimate tool is probably dbpoweramp were your CD rip result, the checksum can be compared with others in a database,so if you find that there are many others with the same checksum you've most likely got an accurate rip.

[pctech]

I tend to use MP3 @ 320 Kbps with 44100 Khz sampling rate.