You’ll get some great tips from these articles: How I Organize Classical Music in iTunes and Taming iTunes & iPod for Classical MusicĪnother tack you could try is Windows Media Player (assuming you have access to a PC or can run a Windows Virtual Machine on your OS). If you have a lot of classical music, you may wish to abandon Gracenote altogether, and do your own – perhaps starting with Gracenote then editing.If you are not sure whether to record the name as Ludwig van Beethoven Beethoven, Ludwig van or simply Beethoven, then I have seen a convention that lists all variations separated by slashes, viz:Beethoven/ Beethoven, Ludwig van/Ludwig van Beethoven, If the music is classical from a particular composer, you might want to consider setting the Album artist (NOT the track artist but the Album artist – I show you how in this post) to the composer’s name – such as Beethoven, Ludwig van.For example, the CD set Purely Français showed up from Gracenote as Purely Francais – yet the album cover clearly has the cedilla under the letter c in Français. If the Artist name or CD Title or Track has accented characters, have enough respect for the artist to include the accented characters.iTunes will sort these artists as you would expect – The Beach Boys come under “ B” for Beach, and Katie Noonam comes under “ K“. The normal way to enter an artist’s name is as they are commonly known, such as The Beach Boys (NOT Beach Boys, The) or Katie Noonan (NOT Noonan, Katie).If the album or track has a special attribute, such as a live recording or an extended version, include this information in brackets after the name – for example: Frampton Comes Alive! and Forever or Forever or Forever And I’ll add a couple of more of my own not from Gracenote.Note: Some people (like Brian Abbot and Stan Brown) don’t like this convention – especially the capitalisation of articles, but unless you want to spend a LOT of time editing your tracks, go with the flow and use capitals) Rare exceptions might be artist names that always appear in all-caps or all-lowercase (such ABBA, NRBQ, k.d.
Capitalise the first letter of each word, including articles (like A and The and Of).It is a long document, so I’ll cover the most important points here:
If iTunes was not able to locate your CD via the Gracenote, (unlikely) or you find that the list of titles is not quite right (very likely), then the first thing then you should read the Gracenote FAQ before adding or editing your own titles. If you find this article helpful, you can make it easier for others to find simply by rating it and/or sharing/liking it.
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I have a couple of supplementary tips that you might also like to check out: How to successfully rip an album/CD to iTunes and How to transfer existing ripped music to iTunes
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This is the third of a series of articles and deals just with naming tracks/albums. What followed was a tale of frustration and hair pulling, so I’ve written down what I wished I knew BEFORE I started. After avoiding iTunes for eleven years, I was finally convinced (partly by reading this article) that the ability to use AirPlay made it worthwhile ripping my CD/music collection to iTunes.
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