https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Sat, 11 Apr 2026 21:42:44 +0000 Fri, 08 Jul 2022 16:47:23 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.07 360 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=9251 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum//images/Top-40-Music-on-CD-Forum-Logo.png https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/ https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9251&PID=61220&title=itunes-question-off-topic#61220 Author: AdvprosD
Subject: 9251
Posted: 08 July 2022 at 4:47pm

eriejwg wrote: Hi Doug, I've used Virtual DJ for years now. To eliminate the issue you're having, open Virtual DJ and click on settings at the top right part of your screen. Once settings is open, type AutoCue. Change the setting from Skip Silence to No.

I'm glad this original topic was posted as "Off topic."

I was using PCDJ Red up until I quit the business of DJing. It was a simple program, or "App" if you will. I always liked the simplicity of it and the fact that despite all
the inherent problems with Windows back then, it seemed to perform without issue. I haven't looked much into Virtual DJ, but gather it is a lot like the newest versions of PCDJ.
Add to the fact that I could keep all the actual music on a separate drive, and swap out a drive in a pinch. (Back when solid state hard drives cost more than my house.)

I have to admit, when DJ software started taking off online, it all began to look the same. I never looked into Tractor, but heard it was pretty good too. ]]> Fri, 08 Jul 2022 16:47:23 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9251&PID=61220&title=itunes-question-off-topic#61220 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9251&PID=61219&title=itunes-question-off-topic#61219 Author: sriv94
Subject: 9251
Posted: 08 July 2022 at 7:34am

That worked like a charm. Thx, Brian!]]> Fri, 08 Jul 2022 07:34:29 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9251&PID=61219&title=itunes-question-off-topic#61219 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9251&PID=61217&title=itunes-question-off-topic#61217 Author: sriv94
Subject: 9251
Posted: 08 July 2022 at 6:37am

Copying the files into WavePad does remove the tags, unfortunately (since my copy is a free version that
doesn’t allow me to save M4As as M4As—I have to save them as WAVs then convert them in iTunes—and some
tags [like artwork] don’t save in WAV files).

I’m en route to my office, so I’ll give your suggestion a try upon my arrival.    

Thx, Brian!

Edited by sriv94]]> Fri, 08 Jul 2022 06:37:49 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9251&PID=61217&title=itunes-question-off-topic#61217 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9251&PID=61216&title=itunes-question-off-topic#61216 Author: Brian W.
Subject: 9251
Posted: 08 July 2022 at 4:06am

sriv94 wrote: It seems I've isolated the problem files to anything I updated between May and June 2020 (which is still a ton of files--over 2000 of them). How can I get MP3Tag to just find those particular files to get the tags?

Is it possible to sort by date modified and just highlight those with those dates, and then drag and drop them into MP3Tag?

Also, try dragging the WAV files you created into MP3Tag and see if the WAV files have tags. Are you sure the tags didn't convert as well?

If they don't, then Ron is right, you should be able to use MP3Tag to copy a batch of tags from the iTunes files to your new WAV files, possibly even all of them at once. However, I think your m4a and WAV files will need to be
in exactly the same order as each other when they're in MP3Tag. But MP3Tag sorts them alphabetically by file name, so if your WAV files have the same file names as your original iTunes files, you should be good.

So try it:

Drag and drop a few m4a files into MP3Tag. Then highlight all the files by hovering your cursor over the list of files and hitting CONTROL and the letter A on your keyboard. Now right click on your mouse and select "Tag Copy" in
the menu that pops up.

Then press the Delete key to delete the files from MP3Tag. (This does not delete the files themselves.)

Next, drop the WAVs of those same songs into MP3Tag. Check to see that they're in the same order from top to bottom -- they should be, if the file names are the same as the m4a files. Again, select all the WAVs with CONTROL-A,
then right-click and select "Tag Paste." Finally, press the "Save" button in the upper left. This should have pasted the iTunes tags into your WAV files.

Can't guarantee it'll work, but it's worth a shot.




Edited by Brian W.]]> Fri, 08 Jul 2022 04:06:01 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9251&PID=61216&title=itunes-question-off-topic#61216 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9251&PID=61215&title=itunes-question-off-topic#61215 Author: sriv94
Subject: 9251
Posted: 07 July 2022 at 8:45pm

crapfromthepast wrote: I run Windows. I use a free program called Mp3tag to take care of all my tagging. You can literally copy and paste tags from file to file. It will even do it in batches, for a group of files. I do this all the time when I convert from one format to another. You can put flac (or mp4) in the same directory or a different directory, open the two directories in Mp3tag at the same time, sort by file type (so that the subgroups are in the same order), and copy-and-paste just like MSWord. You can also read specific tags in from an external file, which is handy if you have a track listing from somewhere else and don't want to type everything in. You can also run some routines that fix the capitalization of everything, or replace & with And, or replace commas, question marks, and exclamation points with nothing. And so forth. Mp3tag. And it's free.

OK, I've downloaded the software.

It seems I've isolated the problem files to anything I updated between May and June 2020 (which is still a ton of
files--over 2000 of them). How can I get MP3Tag to just find those particular files to get the tags?

Edited by sriv94]]> Thu, 07 Jul 2022 20:45:47 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9251&PID=61215&title=itunes-question-off-topic#61215 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9251&PID=61214&title=itunes-question-off-topic#61214 Author: crapfromthepast
Subject: 9251
Posted: 07 July 2022 at 6:04pm

I run Windows. I use a free program called Mp3tag to take care of all my tagging.

You can literally copy and paste tags from file to file. It will even do it in batches, for a group of files. I do this all the time when I convert from one format to another. You can put flac (or mp4) in the same directory or a different directory, open the two directories in Mp3tag at the same time, sort by file type (so that the subgroups are in the same order), and copy-and-paste just like MSWord.

You can also read specific tags in from an external file, which is handy if you have a track listing from somewhere else and don't want to type everything in. You can also run some routines that fix the capitalization of everything, or replace & with And, or replace commas, question marks, and exclamation points with nothing. And so forth.

Mp3tag. And it's free.]]> Thu, 07 Jul 2022 18:04:07 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9251&PID=61214&title=itunes-question-off-topic#61214 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9251&PID=61212&title=itunes-question-off-topic#61212 Author: sriv94
Subject: 9251
Posted: 07 July 2022 at 5:09pm

Brian W. wrote: Create a macro to copy the tag information from one file to the other? You'd probably have to do it track by track, but it would be easier than typing it all out for each track... you'd just have to hit your key combination to start the macro.

No idea how to even do macros. And I’m working in Windows.]]> Thu, 07 Jul 2022 17:09:55 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9251&PID=61212&title=itunes-question-off-topic#61212 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9251&PID=61211&title=itunes-question-off-topic#61211 Author: Brian W.
Subject: 9251
Posted: 07 July 2022 at 1:22pm

Create a macro to copy the tag information from one file to
the other? You'd probably have to do it track by track, but
it would be easier than typing it all out for each track...
you'd just have to hit your key combination to start the
macro.]]> Thu, 07 Jul 2022 13:22:39 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9251&PID=61211&title=itunes-question-off-topic#61211 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9251&PID=61210&title=itunes-question-off-topic#61210 Author: sriv94
Subject: 9251
Posted: 07 July 2022 at 1:00pm

sriv94 wrote: PopArchivist wrote: sriv94 wrote: Any ideas? See if it is available on CD. What is the specific file you want? Is it available outside of Itunes? It just might be. At this point I am sure that something exists to remove the DRM but I wouldnt pay money to download software to do that. Just my two cents. Otherwise I cant suggest much. Too late--I sprang for TuneFab Apple Music Converter. Not the greatest job in the world, though--it does convert the file fairly quickly, but it relies on iTunes to play the file to convert it, and every once in a while the first second or so of another track pops up onto the end of the file (which then means I have to reconvert it in iTunes with the last two seconds chopped off). Since I already have the files organized into playlists, it's a chore to reinsert them, as you'll see below. eriejwg wrote: What's the song Doug? The mono 45 mix of the Rolling Stones' "Street Fightin' Man." That one was taken care of (after two conversions). But there's only 582 more files to reconvert. So I'll be finished by the time this pandemic is. :)

OK, there's a somewhat sad postscript to this. I found a bunch of iTunes song files that have the first second or
so of another track tacked on at the end. So I copied said files to WavePad (27 so far, with a lot more to come),
where I could get rid of the glitch (for lack of a better term), but it wouldn't let me save the .M4A files as
.M4A files. So I had to save them as .WAV files (although I could just as easily have used .MP3, but that's not
really germane to the story). What is germane to the story is now I have two files of the same song, and I want
to copy the iTunes track information from the old file to the new file without having to type everything out
longhand. Apple Support wasn't any help. (Surprise, surprise.)

Anyone have any thoughts? I've seen posts with Apple's community about scripts that can be run to isolate the
info, but it doesn't really tell me how to run them or what to do (and the posts are from like eight years ago).

/And yes, I know some of you despise Apple and/or iTunes, but it's what I got, so I gotta work with it.]]> Thu, 07 Jul 2022 13:00:35 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9251&PID=61210&title=itunes-question-off-topic#61210 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9251&PID=54449&title=itunes-question-off-topic#54449 Author: sriv94
Subject: 9251
Posted: 12 May 2020 at 8:37am

eriejwg wrote: Hi Doug, I've used Virtual DJ for years now. To eliminate the issue you're having, open Virtual DJ and click on settings at the top right part of your screen. Once settings is open, type AutoCue. Change the setting from Skip Silence to No.

Thx, John. That did the trick.]]> Tue, 12 May 2020 08:37:47 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9251&PID=54449&title=itunes-question-off-topic#54449