Information Retrieval For Mac

In Windows Media Player, go to Tools-Options and click the Media Library tab. There's an option called 'Update my music files by retrieving missing information from the internet'. It has several sub options, one of which is 'Override existing information'. If this is on, and the thing is using otherwise default settings, then you run into a bit of an unusual situation. Windows Media Player attempts to be a sort of music categorization program. It will search your My Music directories and add files it finds to it's own library.

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If this update option is on, then it goes a step further and searches the internet in an attempt to identify your music and get tag information. It's not half bad at it either, but the point is that it does all this silently, in the background, whenever it is running. And it's deceptively difficult to tell exactly when Windows Media Player is running.

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If you're watching a video in a browser window using Media Player, well, Media Player is running and doing all this. Tricky business, eh? Now, iTunes is not immediately impacted by WMP retagging the music files. However, whenever you play a file, view it's artwork, do a Get Info on it, etc, iTunes re-reads the tag of the file and updates itself accordingly.

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Thus, it appears like iTunes is changing the tag info, but what really happened is that WMP changed the tag info and iTunes only noticed the change when you did something to that track in iTunes. Turn off the 'Update' option in WMP and the problem goes away. When connected to the Internet, iTunes occasionally automatically retrieves certain track information - such as: album, composer, etc - and saves this. If you're connected to the internet during a (commercially purchased) CD import, itunes will automatically do a Gracenote query for that track. But otherwise (under normal circumstances), you have to get it manually using 'Advanced Get CD track names'. If possible, could you describe the circumstances under which you're getting these 'spontaneous tag changes' in a bit more detail? Is this only happening to tracks in the mp3 format?

Or is it affecting AACs, Apple Lossless, etc, too? Okay, I'll try. My problem only concerns non-CD tracks. So tracks that are already on my computer. Sometimes when I play a track not belonging to an album, the position of this track in the iTunes list will change (I organise tracks by album). When I find that track again, an album title, year, track no.

And composer information has been added and/or changed. I also have an album 'Donnie Darko OST / Score' of which every track tag changes, when I play a random album track. ITunes automatically changes the album name, even after I've changed it back again. I only use mp3s by the way. I'm starting to think it has something to do with applications such as LimeWire.not used for downloading music of course.

and/or the last.fm applications. Both applications have something to do with iTunes. Last.fm (www.last.fm) keeps track of what you've played on your computer. The specially designed iTunes application is installed in iTunes itself. Other than that, I'm confused.

G4 Mac OS X (10.4.5) Windows XP Pro, Apple iPod 60GB. In Windows Media Player, go to Tools-Options and click the Media Library tab.

There's an option called 'Update my music files by retrieving missing information from the internet'. It has several sub options, one of which is 'Override existing information'.

If this is on, and the thing is using otherwise default settings, then you run into a bit of an unusual situation. Windows Media Player attempts to be a sort of music categorization program.

It will search your My Music directories and add files it finds to it's own library. If this update option is on, then it goes a step further and searches the internet in an attempt to identify your music and get tag information. It's not half bad at it either, but the point is that it does all this silently, in the background, whenever it is running. And it's deceptively difficult to tell exactly when Windows Media Player is running. If you're watching a video in a browser window using Media Player, well, Media Player is running and doing all this. Tricky business, eh? Now, iTunes is not immediately impacted by WMP retagging the music files.

However, whenever you play a file, view it's artwork, do a Get Info on it, etc, iTunes re-reads the tag of the file and updates itself accordingly. Thus, it appears like iTunes is changing the tag info, but what really happened is that WMP changed the tag info and iTunes only noticed the change when you did something to that track in iTunes. Turn off the 'Update' option in WMP and the problem goes away. Apple Footer. This site contains user submitted content, comments and opinions and is for informational purposes only.

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