Just type the artist, orchestra or band name into a Google search field, click on Images and select the appropriate image. Google Images is the single best source for album art. Many of the tracks and albums Audiophiles might add need custom art added. This database is targeted more at popular music than it is jazz and classical - and certainly has very few Audiophile recordings in its list. ITunes is pretty good finding most cover art using the Gracenote database. To choose from a predefined list, click the arrow and choose from the list. To add a custom genre type, simply place the cursor in the Genre box and type whatever you want. Genre editing can be either custom named or choose from the list. You can still enter individual track titles and artists within the compilation. Choose various artists for the album's artist field. You can highlight a group of tracks, right click the highlighted group opening the Get Info dialog box, check Part of a compilation, and this will become an album. If you have a compilation album, with different artists on multiple tracks, choose the checkbox labeled "Part of a compilation". Use this intuitively laid out window to manage Artwork (open the Artwork tab of this window), or change the track, composer, genre, artist titles of your library. Here is what the Get Info window looks like: Once you have opened the Get Info dialog box you can manage all aspects of the individual tracks, albums, titles and artwork. You can also go to the File->Get Info menu. To access this dialog box you can right click on any track or album and choose Get Info. The best tool to manage your library can be accessed by choosing Get Info and opening the Info dialog box. The same can be applied to any field in the song List View as well.įor larger more complex editing features, opening the tag editor window is recommended. The blue highlighted area has been clicked on, allowing direct editing. Here's an example of what that looks like in album view. In either the album or song view, you can click any of the text field and edit their content directly. Once you have imported your media into iTunes you can now manage your library. To set the import settings go to Preferences->General->Import Settings: Our recommendation is to use either AIFF (uncompressed) or Apple Lossless compression. To do this, make certain your import settings have been set to the proper file type. You can also rip or copy music from your CD's or DVD data discs. To bring music into the iTunes library you can simply highlight a group of tracks or albums on an existing hard drive and drag them into the iTunes desktop. If you are running iTunes in a Windows environment, we are still searching for a way to make it bit perfect if sample rates change.Īdd music from a hard drive or data source Our specific recommendation is for Bit Perfect. If you are using iTunes as a management tool on a Mac, make sure you use an aftermarket program such as Bit Perfect, Audirvana, Pure Music or Amarra to get the sound right. Managing your media library properly can bring great rewards.
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