I bought an EP off iTunes with a total of three songs in it, an original "explicit" track, a "clean" instrumental and an "explicit" remix version. However I soon realised the remix and instrumental were the wrong way round (so the one labelled as the clean instrumental was in fact the explicit remix and vice versa). Naturally I changed it, I used a tag editing program (mp3tag to be precise) to basically just swap the file tags and the names on the files. This worked like a charm and all was well, until just recently I've noticed either the iPod or iTunes (not sure which) is renaming the tracks back the other way around like how they were originally.
if I play the tracks in iTunes on my computer however it immediately corrects it back to how I edited them, and I can then resync the files to the ipod and it'll be fine again, until it does this again at some point.
I was just wondering fi this functionality is by-design and if I can stop it doing it? I initially though turning off the "auto obtain cd track names from internet" option was the culprit but, that just gets the info from gracenote I thought and is for when you insert a cd in the drive. This change seems (as far as I can logically tell) to be coming from the iTunes store, almost as if it's looking up the files on there for the sake of continuity and seeing that the file sizes match those on the store but the names are the other way around so it's changing them (but when I play them in iTunes it reads the tags in the files and reverts them to what I edited them to).
I might add that I did actually contact Apple about this; using that report a problem link you get (somewhere, in the receipt or whatever it is). I gave them a detailed explanation of the problem and how it could pose a problem if someone bought just one of the affected tracks they'd get the wrong song to what they thought.
... Apple were as gracious as a dead horse and completely ignored me.
Edit: And apparently you're all being just as "gracious" as Apple. Thanks for completely fuck all, people! I mean that to the bottom of my heart, I really do.
if I play the tracks in iTunes on my computer however it immediately corrects it back to how I edited them, and I can then resync the files to the ipod and it'll be fine again, until it does this again at some point.
I was just wondering fi this functionality is by-design and if I can stop it doing it? I initially though turning off the "auto obtain cd track names from internet" option was the culprit but, that just gets the info from gracenote I thought and is for when you insert a cd in the drive. This change seems (as far as I can logically tell) to be coming from the iTunes store, almost as if it's looking up the files on there for the sake of continuity and seeing that the file sizes match those on the store but the names are the other way around so it's changing them (but when I play them in iTunes it reads the tags in the files and reverts them to what I edited them to).
I might add that I did actually contact Apple about this; using that report a problem link you get (somewhere, in the receipt or whatever it is). I gave them a detailed explanation of the problem and how it could pose a problem if someone bought just one of the affected tracks they'd get the wrong song to what they thought.
... Apple were as gracious as a dead horse and completely ignored me.
Edit: And apparently you're all being just as "gracious" as Apple. Thanks for completely fuck all, people! I mean that to the bottom of my heart, I really do.
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