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« on: 12:34:53, 27-08-2008 » |
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A year ago I downloaded Handel's L'allegro etc on itunes. About half the tracks appeared corrupted and would not play on my ipod.
The other day I burnt the tracks to two blank CDs, and uploaded* them. The corrupted tracks played beautifully, apart from the final 14 or so.
I burnt a third CD with those 14 tracks, from the download, and uploaded * it. I gave it the same album title as the other tracks. I called it disc 3 of 3. I renumbered the tracks already on the machine as 1 of 3 and 2 of 3. They appear on the machine in the proper order (ie the one in which Handel expected them to be played.)
But however many times I connect my ipod witht the machine, the tracks appear on the ipod with the 14 tracks of disc 3 coming first.
I have taken out the year.
What do I need to do to get them to play in correct order? I can't for the life of me think.
Please help.
* Do I have to use this horrible word? You know, I put the disc in the computer and its contents appear on itunes.
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To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven.
A time to weep, and a time to laugh: a time to mourn, and a time to dance
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« Reply #1 on: 12:39:26, 27-08-2008 » |
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I wish I knew. I have exactly the same problem with these discs:  No matter what I do, they won't play in the right order on the pod. It's quite easy to live with, but I'd be fascinated to know what the answer is. Sorry, that doesn't really help, does it. |
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« Last Edit: 20:59:38, 27-08-2008 by perfect wagnerite »
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At every one of these [classical] concerts in England you will find rows of weary people who are there, not because they really like classical music, but because they think they ought to like it. (Shaw, Don Juan in Hell)
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Don Basilio
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« Reply #2 on: 13:20:30, 27-08-2008 » |
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Which discs, pw? They don't show at the moment.
At least I can hear all the tracks now.
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To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven.
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« Reply #3 on: 13:23:54, 27-08-2008 » |
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Ah, the joys of posting pictures at work.
Telemann's Darmstadt Overtures - Concentus Musicus Wien, Harnoncourt.
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« Last Edit: 13:27:29, 27-08-2008 by perfect wagnerite »
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At every one of these [classical] concerts in England you will find rows of weary people who are there, not because they really like classical music, but because they think they ought to like it. (Shaw, Don Juan in Hell)
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« Reply #4 on: 13:25:04, 27-08-2008 » |
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* Do I have to use this horrible word? You know, I put the disc in the computer and its contents appear on itunes.
You can use the word 'imported' if you prefer, DB. In German it's even worse - they use the English word but with German conjugations. Geuploadet and gedownloadet. |
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« Reply #5 on: 13:25:36, 27-08-2008 » |
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First, double check you've been consistent with the ID tags for disc and track numbers. They should all be along the lines of:
Track 1 of 14
Disc 1 of 3
Track 3 of 16
Disc 3 of 3
iTunes will then play these in the correct order (it sorts by disc number first, then track).
However, if disc 3 says something different, like:
Disc 3 of [blank]
or:
Disc 03 of 03
Then you're going to run into problems.
Otherwise, have you checked the album title and album artist fields? These need to be absolutely the same across all tracks on all three discs, otherwise iTunes will consider them as separate albums (no matter what it says in the Disc fields). The easiest way to check you're consistent about these is to highlight all the tracks in iTunes, hit control-I to pull up the ID tag editor, and type in the album title and album artist yourself. (If either of these is blank when you open up the tag editor, that's an indication that you haven't got absolutely consistent tagging across all three discs.) Off the top of my head, one possible source of inconsistency might be a curly quote vs a straight apostrophe in "L'allegro", for example, which iTunes would alphabetise separately.
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« Reply #6 on: 13:28:55, 27-08-2008 » |
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Thanks - I'll give it a try when I get home
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At every one of these [classical] concerts in England you will find rows of weary people who are there, not because they really like classical music, but because they think they ought to like it. (Shaw, Don Juan in Hell)
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« Reply #7 on: 13:32:11, 27-08-2008 » |
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Thanks, trj (for some reason you are almost the only member I want to address by actual name, but I stopped myself in time. Its just another combination of 3 letters beginning with t.)
I'll spend some quiet time when I'm in the house on my own and nobody will hear me cursing a blinding. I entered the album title myself so that shouls be OK. There is no album artist, as far as I remember, but that is worth checking.
(When I burnt the complete work, I got a blank DC when I put it in to import it - ta for that, trj. However disc 3 gets all the Gracewing entries and although I have changed the album title, that may be where the problem lies.)
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To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven.
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« Reply #8 on: 13:33:12, 27-08-2008 » |
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That's just what I was going to say, trj. If there's any inconsistency in the "album title", "artist" and "composer" fields or anything else, like an extra space or whatever, the computer just treats the discs as different things. I scratched a hole in my head trying to sort this out too.
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« Reply #9 on: 13:39:35, 27-08-2008 » |
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« Reply #10 on: 13:56:46, 27-08-2008 » |
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Thanks, trj (for some reason you are almost the only member I want to address by actual name, but I stopped myself in time. Its just another combination of 3 letters beginning with t.) I would forgive you if did!  I'll spend some quiet time when I'm in the house on my own and nobody will hear me cursing a blinding. I entered the album title myself so that shouls be OK. There is no album artist, as far as I remember, but that is worth checking.
Might be worth putting an album artist in (and even composer, as rb suggests), just to enforce the connection between discs. Just another thought - have a look at the "Part of a compilation?" box and check that they're all ticked/unticked the same way. (When I burnt the complete work, I got a blank DC when I put it in to import it - ta for that, trj. However disc 3 gets all the Gracewing entries and although I have changed the album title, that may be where the problem lies.)
Data from Gracenote, CDDB etc are notoriously unreliable, so always worth checking. |
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« Reply #11 on: 14:01:36, 27-08-2008 » |
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uploaded*
* Do I have to use this horrible word? You know, I put the disc in the computer and its contents appear on itunes.
Technically you copied, if the contents only appeared on your own computer. You would only upload if the contents went to a remote server. |
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Allegro, ma non tanto
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« Reply #12 on: 14:59:22, 27-08-2008 » |
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uploaded*
* Do I have to use this horrible word? You know, I put the disc in the computer and its contents appear on itunes.
Technically you copied, if the contents only appeared on your own computer. You would only upload if the contents went to a remote server. I actually thought it was the word 'ripped' that you objected to Don, I thought you were using 'upload' to soften it a bit! Copied is an elegant alternative IRF, well done.  I've had all sorts of problems with classical CDs - it just isn't designed to cope with them. I ended up switching off the "let iTunes manage files" option because the Gracenotes database is so unreliable I always have to overwrite it and you can end up with the same albums spread across different folders. Often multiple discs from the same set have inexplicably been given different combinations of artist, title and composer and sometimes genre, because the people typing them in get confused when faced with a composer, orchestra, conductor and often a soloist as well. Bless their little tiny weeny brains...  |
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"Two wrongs don't make a right. But three rights do make a left." - Rohan Candappa
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« Reply #13 on: 15:49:21, 27-08-2008 » |
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I actually thought it was the word 'ripped' that you objected to Don, I thought you were using 'upload' to soften it a bit! Copied is an elegant alternative IRF, well done. How come no one 'mimeographs' anything anymore? |
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« Reply #14 on: 16:01:37, 27-08-2008 » |
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In German it's even worse - they use the English word but with German conjugations. Geuploadet and gedownloadet.
That is really, truly unfortunate. |
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