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siborg69
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 Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 4:24 am Post subject: problems adding some songs to itunes.... |
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| for some reason, i have 4 albums that wont add to itunes and ive never had this problem before. i downloaded them as a discography so they came in one folder and then the albums are in subfolders....ive looked at properties etc but cant see anythin that stands out. any ideas?? |
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samd
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| Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 6:16 am Post subject: |
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| What type of file are they? |
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siborg69
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| Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 6:23 am Post subject: |
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| theyre winamp media files......only difference i can see in these files is that when i look at theyre tags, the others all have the song title and then the album name....these ones that wont add have the song name and then it just says winamp media file under it rather than the album name....would this make any difference??? |
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aphase
Joined: 27 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 10:01 pm Post subject: |
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| siborg69 wrote: |
| theyre winamp media files......only difference i can see in these files is that when i look at theyre tags, the others all have the song title and then the album name....these ones that wont add have the song name and then it just says winamp media file under it rather than the album name....would this make any difference??? |
I'm not sure whether if winamp has its own proprietary file format, but if that is the case, then that would be the problem. Those may not be encoded in a format Itunes can read. Perhaps they are ogg vorbis files? That's another popular format besides .wma and .mp3 files. |
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orosee
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| Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 10:21 pm Post subject: |
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If you let it then Winamp and pretty much any other media player will register some common media types (or pretty much anything it can play) as the default player, so Windows Explorer will show the file as "Winamp Media File" same as it shows .doc files as "Microsoft Word Document".
What you need to look at is the file extension. For this you should have the option "hide known file extensions" disable in some Windows dialog, otherwise you will only see the filename.
It could be that iTunes will not synch or register media formats that it cannot play. There are some important but not so much used formats around such as the aforementioned .ogg, also .flac, .mpa and a few more. Tell us what the file extension is and maybe there is help. |
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siborg69
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| Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 3:44 am Post subject: |
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| ahhh i see!! cheers for that, found out that they are indeed .ogg files. sooooo......what now?sorry if im coming across as a bit thick but i dont know too much about computers as you can tell! |
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aphase
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| Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 6:30 am Post subject: |
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Well you could probably convert the ogg vorbis files to mp3, but I would recommend just re-downloading those albums in MP3 format. If you convert you'll lower the sound quality of the songs.
Just search for the mp3 versions and download those |
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orosee
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| Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 4:21 pm Post subject: |
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| aphase wrote: |
Well you could probably convert the ogg vorbis files to mp3, but I would recommend just re-downloading those albums in MP3 format. If you convert you'll lower the sound quality of the songs.
Just search for the mp3 versions and download those |
I second that BUT if these files can't be found in MP3, Winamp can convert them for you (if you have pro edition) or else look around the net, there are free format converters. Just make sure you choose a bitrate that is similar to the one used for the OGG files.
I am actually surprised that iTunes cannot automatically convert. It usually annoys you at least once by offering to turn your entire collection into MP4 format.
If you don't need iTunes (normally people are forced to use it only if they have to sync to iPod or iPhone, or possibly Mac users) and run Windows, then you should try MediaMonkey instead. Even in the free version which has nearly full functionality, it is far far far far far superior to iTunes. Actually I don't know ANY software that is not superior to iTunes  |
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orosee
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| Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 4:22 pm Post subject: |
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| orosee wrote: |
| aphase wrote: |
Well you could probably convert the ogg vorbis files to mp3, but I would recommend just re-downloading those albums in MP3 format. If you convert you'll lower the sound quality of the songs.
Just search for the mp3 versions and download those |
I second that BUT if these files can't be found in MP3, Winamp can convert them for you (if you have pro edition) or else look around the net, there are free format converters. Just make sure you choose a bitrate that is similar to the one used for the OGG files.
I am actually surprised that iTunes cannot automatically convert. It usually annoys you at least once by offering to turn your entire collection into MP4 format.
If you don't need iTunes (normally people are forced to use it only if they have to sync to iPod or iPhone, or possibly Mac users) and run Windows, then you should try MediaMonkey instead. Even in the free version which has nearly full functionality, it is far far far far far superior to iTunes. Actually I don't know ANY software that is not superior to iTunes |
And that includes Notepad! |
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