r/ITunes

Hi wonderful people,
I did a dumb thing this evening. I synced my iPhone with iTunes on my laptop for the first time in years and it messed everything up. I decided to rip a CD and add a track that I would have had to buy the whole album again to listen to and I wanted it on my phone so I ended up synching my phone.
A lot of my album art is now messed up and I’m really nervous to delete the music app and re download it to see if that fixes it. If anyone has any suggestions I would be so grateful
Thanks in advance!

So I’ve been doing some research, because even though it worked fine a week ago, now I can’t sync my iPod or my iPhone to my iTunes on my PC. I don’t personally care for Apple Music, I use iTunes. I like to upload CDs and my own files, for instance. I know that Apple Music is supposed to have functionally replaced iTunes, but I haven’t had any issues with this until recently. I tried clearing iTunes and Apple Devices from my PC and downloading them again, but they seem like they won’t work together now. Am I missing something simple here?

Olá galera, tudo certo?

Eu recentemente fiz um Hakintosh (instalei Mac OS X em um PC não Apple), o computador que eu usei é antigo, então usei o Mac OS X 10.6.2, eu atualizei o iTunes para a versão mais recente disponível (10.6.3), mas infelizmente a loja dele já não está funcionando, existe alguma maneira de conserta-la? Se alguém puder me ajudar, eu ficarei muito feliz!

Every time I put my email and password in and then click sign in, all it does is just say Verification Failed, there was an error connecting to the Apple account server. It’s been like this since last Friday, what is going on?

Hi,
My husband has a huge iTunes file saved on an external hard drive. He now uses Apple Music but wants to keep his iTunes file. I'm getting rid of my decrepit Apple mini and buying a PC. Can I download the iTunes file on a PC?
Thank you!

Hello everyone, I want to share a discovery so nobody else goes crazy trying to batch-edit the "Episode ID" and "Program to Sort" fields in iTunes using MP3 files. After testing extensively with advanced editors like Mp3tag, Kid3, and foobar2000, I have scientifically proven that iTunes NEVER injects these specific tags into the physical MP3 file. While it does write them into AAC (.m4a) containers because they are Apple's native format, for MP3s it stores this data exclusively inside its internal database (iTunes Library.itl). I verified this with two definitive tests: External tag editors cannot read these frames simply because they do not exist inside the file.If you edit those fields in iTunes, make a separate copy of the MP3 file, delete the track from the iTunes library, and then import the file back, the data completely disappears. The actual file was always clean. Stop wasting time looking for a tag editor that can read these fields in an MP3; it is just a visual illusion created by the iTunes internal database!Hope this helps the community save time.

Anyone else having these issues like me with the latest build? 12.13.10.3 I believe.

Running Windows 11 pro 64 bit. Was absolutely fine. Gave in and updated and quite easily the worst decision.

For instance. This morning I was listening to War Pigs performed by Faith No More on my morning walk. The volume would go down, so I would turn it back up. And then it would do it again. This has been an ongoing problem that I am finally fed up with enough to try to address. Sometimes it doesn’t happen, and sometimes it does. I get it if different songs play at different volumes, but it’s happening during a single song. And not just War Pigs. I just used it as an example.

To clarify, it would probably happen through the iPhone speaker, too… but I never listen to music like that.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

too many times I’ve made a small seemingly insignificant change that screws up a significant portion of an album, artist, or god knows what else. just the other day I made a change to a soundtrack album that caused every single song to split into its own release. the fix is easy, find the problem and plug them all back into the same release, but it also could be easily fixed if there was a simple undo button. it makes me scared to change certain things because of how unpredictable this application is sometimes.

**Crossposted from DataHoarders sub**

I have about 10 tb of music and the drive is getting full, as is its physical backup. I was looking and noticed I had several albums of the same thing but reissued under different names. I was thinking of getting a duplicate checker, but the Google is just giving me either Windows software, or something that checks tags and file sizes. I was wondering if there was a program that would check those things but also maybe also look SONICALLY, at the files to check for duplicates and be smart about it. If a file is 1 or two seconds longer but otherwise the same, I'd like something that could bring it to my attention. I'm okay with a search taking a bit of time.

My music is almost exclusively Jazz and Classical. So my problem is there's literally hundreds of instances of When the Saints Go Marching In, Beethoven Symphony 7, things like this, but they're all different.

Running MacOS 15.7.4 and Apple Music 1.5.6 I have no apple subscription service I'm concerned about, these files are all my own. Most are in ALAC format, with some AAC as well. Probably a few MP3's although I try to avoid or convert when possible.

Someone told me on Reddit here that for recent iTunes, you can’t just simply up update your iTunes by plugging it in clicking the sync icon, because whenever I do that, it doesn’t show up? You have to go on Finder in order to do so, but how do you go about doing that?

TL;DR: Recently found my wife's old iPod from high school and wanted to bask in the nostalgia. However, some of the songs are old DRM protected files from accounts that no longer exist or we don't have access to; so, we can't play them at all. What are our realistic options?

I want some of the songs.