iPod questions...

[Admiral50]

Hi all

Going to buy myself a 30gb iPod video for Xmas, wanting to know a few basic things please.

1. Does the iPod read the filename of your music or the actual tag inside the file?

2. Can you use all of your mp3's and video files currently on your PC hard drive and easily put them into iTunes to transfer to your Ipod?

3. Is there a way to buy stuff from the iTunes stores of other countries or do they just lock it to your current IP address?

Thanks heaps!

[Kodiak33]

Re: iPod questions...

1. Reads the tags on your music.

2. You can transfer your mp3s easily...but you have to convert your videos to *.mp4

3. Not sure about the international thing. I bet they don't lock you out

[Admiral50]

Re: iPod questions...

Thanks mate, much appreciated

Bugger about the tags. I spent days renaming my actual files, but the tags are all messed up with all sorts of junk. Guess I'll have to do it all over again.

Thanks again!

[Kodiak33]

Re: iPod questions...

No problem, yeah I know the feeling about tags...I've spent many hours reorganizing my music and it sucks.

[TJdaSportsGuy]

Re: iPod questions...

That's the only thing about iTunes that really frustrates me. Sometimes, even if I have a tag correct within Windows Media Player, it'll still show incorrectly in iTunes, and since I got my iPod, I've been using iTunes to organize all my music.

I've spent many hours putting in my own album art and manually entering album info, the year released, stuff like that. I'm very anal when it comes to the music on my iPod.

[Tha_Kid]

Re: iPod questions...

Use a program like Mp3tag to quickly redo tags. In your case theres a handy "Filename - To Tag" option where you can set the parameters and fix a lot of tags in one process. Batch taggers are a necessity when you start getting up in the 30GB amount of music..

@ TJ

WMP has its own kind of tag recognition that differs from everyone else. The main culprit in this is the "Album Artist" tag that is big in WMP but an afterthought everywhere else. This is noticeable if you've ever picked up a MTP mp3 player that has to use WMP to transfer files. When I got my Toshiba Gigabeat S I had to go back and redo my tags to assign everything an album & an album artist. A great mediaplayer as well as library that alleviates this is MediaMonkey, an all-in-one program that not only has a media library akin to iTunes but can convert between many formats but can also tag files using Amazon.com as well as many other features explained at the site.

[Kodiak33]

Re: iPod questions...

TJ, one thing that sucks for me is putting the album covers for my music in. I just bought an 80 gig iPod a couple of weeks ago, and so far I have 500 megs of album covers! Do you really have to put a picture on each song, or is there a way to associate the cover with the actual album?

[TJdaSportsGuy]

Re: iPod questions...

TJ, one thing that sucks for me is putting the album covers for my music in. I just bought an 80 gig iPod a couple of weeks ago, and so far I have 500 megs of album covers! Do you really have to put a picture on each song, or is there a way to associate the cover with the actual album?

I don't know. I just do it for each song. I use the album covers I find at amazon.com. They're all the right size, pixel-wise, already...and they don't seem to be very big in file size.

[TJdaSportsGuy]

Re: iPod questions...

Use a program like Mp3tag to quickly redo tags. In your case theres a handy "Filename - To Tag" option where you can set the parameters and fix a lot of tags in one process. Batch taggers are a necessity when you start getting up in the 30GB amount of music..

@ TJ

WMP has its own kind of tag recognition that differs from everyone else. The main culprit in this is the "Album Artist" tag that is big in WMP but an afterthought everywhere else. This is noticeable if you've ever picked up a MTP mp3 player that has to use WMP to transfer files. When I got my Toshiba Gigabeat S I had to go back and redo my tags to assign everything an album & an album artist. A great mediaplayer as well as library that alleviates this is MediaMonkey, an all-in-one program that not only has a media library akin to iTunes but can convert between many formats but can also tag files using Amazon.com as well as many other features explained at the site.

Yeah, see the reason I go through WMP is so that I can use that program's "Auto Tag" feature. I wish iTunes had that, but from what I can tell, it doesn't.

[Tha_Kid]

Re: iPod questions...

USE MEDIAMONKEY

trust me on this. BTW the key to album art is to save it to the tags metadata, saves space. MediaMonkey will do this as well. If you like it enough you can also use it to sync up with your iPod..

[TJdaSportsGuy]

Re: iPod questions...

USE MEDIAMONKEY

trust me on this. BTW the key to album art is to save it to the tags metadata, saves space. MediaMonkey will do this as well. If you like it enough you can also use it to sync up with your iPod..

I shall give it a shot.

[ExtremeGamer]

Re: iPod questions...

So much easier with my bland screen on my Dell DJ. No colors, nothing to worry about, and easy to sort all my music. This is the biggest reason I never got an Ipod, if the feature is there to put album art with my music, I'd have to do it like TJ said.

[Kodiak33]

Re: iPod questions...

I got it mainly for the video/photo functionality. I was using my PSP for that, but the space just wasn't there for the money. Thanks for the tip using MediaMonkey, I will try that out as well.

[Admiral50]

Re: iPod questions...

So is it confirmed that we can use one album cover for each song of the album or do we really have to use one for each song?

[BGarrett7]

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So is it confirmed that we can use one album cover for each song of the album or do we really have to use one for each song?

The album art is associated with each individual file, but you can add a single image to a group of files quite easily.

My iTunes library is sitting 12,538 songs deep, and there isn't a single song contained within it that doesn't have at least a 300x300 album art image associated with it. I'd venture to say that probably 90% have a 600x600 high-res image.

What I'd like to know is, if you're using iTunes 7 why you are even getting your album art from outside sources in the first place. If the song/album/whatever is on the iTMS, or has been in the past, then iTunes will automatically associate high-res album art with it.