tag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:/discussions/problems/16164-incorrect-track-namesbeaTunes: Discussion 2011-04-07T12:31:51Ztag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:Comment/39570642010-11-24T08:13:08Z2010-11-24T08:13:08ZIncorrect Track Names<div><p>Hi Tom,</p>
<p>the key, BPM etc. import uses a different mechanism than the
name, album, artist import, which would explain, why one works, but
not the other. Name, artist etc. are imported from
MusicIP/AmpliFind, a third party service.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, I can't say anything about why this failed
without the logs. <a href=
"http://help.beatunes.com/faqs/troubleshooting/where-are-the-beatunes-logs">
http://help.beatunes.com/faqs/troubleshooting/where-are-the-beatune...</a>
tells you where to find them and how to send them.</p>
<p>Thanks,</p>
<p>-hendrik</p></div>hendriktag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:Comment/39570642010-11-24T19:08:39Z2010-11-24T19:08:39ZIncorrect Track Names<div><p>Thanks so much for your reply. Attached are the logs. Happy
Thanksgiving!</p>
<p>--- On Wed, 11/24/10, hendrik
<a>tender+d68d50d424e48c57fd086a5d05a4ed3aaebbe3de3@tenderapp.com</a>
wrote:</p>
<p>From: hendrik
<a>tender+d68d50d424e48c57fd086a5d05a4ed3aaebbe3de3@tenderapp.com</a><br>
Subject: Re: Incorrect Track Names [Problems]<br>
To: "<a href="mailto:tpwig@yahoo.com">tpwig@yahoo.com</a>"
<a>tpwig@yahoo.com</a><br>
Date: Wednesday, November 24, 2010, 1:13 AM</p></div>Tom Wiggintontag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:Comment/39570642010-11-26T08:39:20Z2010-11-26T08:39:20ZIncorrect Track Names<div><p>Hi Tom,</p>
<p>I checked out the logs, but unfortunately the do not contain any
information about the actions you took anymore. Any chance you
could start beaTunes reproduce the issue, shut down beaTunes and
send me fresh logs?</p>
<p>Thanks,</p>
<p>-hendrik</p></div>hendriktag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:Comment/39570642010-11-26T16:18:24Z2010-11-26T16:18:24ZIncorrect Track Names<div><p>I was afraid of that! Here are the logs again plus screen
snapshots of 3 different playlists that exhibit the problem. You'll
see that the track names are the same but the rest of the data is
different. The songs are actually all different.<br>
Thanks for your help with this.</p>
<p>--- On Fri, 11/26/10, hendrik
<a>tender+d68d50d424e48c57fd086a5d05a4ed3aaebbe3de3@tenderapp.com</a>
wrote:</p>
<p>From: hendrik
<a>tender+d68d50d424e48c57fd086a5d05a4ed3aaebbe3de3@tenderapp.com</a><br>
Subject: Re: Incorrect Track Names [Problems]<br>
To: "<a href="mailto:tpwig@yahoo.com">tpwig@yahoo.com</a>"
<a>tpwig@yahoo.com</a><br>
Date: Friday, November 26, 2010, 1:39 AM</p></div>Tom Wiggintontag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:Comment/39570642010-11-27T09:17:07Z2010-11-27T09:17:07ZIncorrect Track Names<div><p>Hi Tom,</p>
<p>I think I know what's going wrong..<br>
Let me confirm, that you did the following (in exactly this
order):</p>
<ul>
<li>import a CD with iTunes</li>
<li>use beaTunes to identify the songs</li>
<li>import next CD with iTunes</li>
<li>use beaTunes to identify the songs</li>
<li>...</li>
</ul>
<p>Now, what I think happens is:</p>
<ul>
<li>iTunes imports the songs and calls them
<code>/Users/Vitruvius/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Music/Unknown
Artist/Unknown Album/01 Track 01.m4a</code> (obviously other
numbers for other tracks)</li>
<li>beaTunes identifies the songs, tells you about it. The tool
beaTunes uses to identify the song has a so called <em>cache</em>.
In this thing it saves the information it looked up for your
files.</li>
<li>beaTunes tells iTunes to change album/artist/etc. This causes
iTunes to rename the file.</li>
<li>you import the second batch. And because the first batch has
been renamed to the recognized names, the very same song names are
available and therefore used.</li>
<li>beaTunes uses the id tool again and this tool first checks its
<em>cache</em>. And, voila, in there it finds data for all those
files you want data for (because they have the same name). So it
does not even look up the data online, but uses what it already
thinks it knows.</li>
</ul>
<p>If this is really the heart of the issue, here's how you can
work around it:</p>
<ul>
<li>import many songs into iTunes before letting beaTunes identify
them - that way iTunes chooses different file names for different
songs.</li>
<li>before asking beaTunes to identify songs, delete the id tool's
cache. Yours is a simple file called
<code>/Users/Vitruvius/Library/Caches/musicip/cache.m3lib</code> -
just delete it, while beaTunes is not running.</li>
</ul>
<p>I will disable the cache in the next minor update - obviously it
doesn't make a whole lot of sense in this context.</p>
<p>I hope this solves the issue,</p>
<p>-hendrik</p></div>hendriktag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:Comment/39570642010-11-29T15:34:40Z2010-11-29T15:34:40ZIncorrect Track Names<div><p>Hendrick,<br>
Thanks very much for your work on this. I will try your solution
and let you know how it goes. It sounds like a good plan.<br>
Thanks again!</p>
<p>--- On Sat, 11/27/10, hendrik
<a>tender+d68d50d424e48c57fd086a5d05a4ed3aaebbe3de3@tenderapp.com</a>
wrote:</p>
<p>From: hendrik
<a>tender+d68d50d424e48c57fd086a5d05a4ed3aaebbe3de3@tenderapp.com</a><br>
Subject: Re: Incorrect Track Names [Problems]<br>
To: "<a href="mailto:tpwig@yahoo.com">tpwig@yahoo.com</a>"
<a>tpwig@yahoo.com</a><br>
Date: Saturday, November 27, 2010, 2:17 AM</p></div>Tom Wiggintontag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:Comment/39570642010-11-29T18:46:02Z2010-11-29T18:46:02ZIncorrect Track Names<div><p>Hendrick,<br>
Just had some time to try your solution. It half worked!<br>
I asked beaTunes to analyze new tracks that it had not analyzed
yet. I stipulated that it should import missing data from MusiciP.
That didn't appear to do anything so, I re-anaylzed the new tracks
and requested that it replace existing song properties and that
correctly populated song title, artist, etc.<br>
However, I haven't been able to get beaTunes to correct the
previously named tracks that were done incorrectly. I even changed
all the track information in hopes it would initiate the analysis
all over again. This did not work. <br>
I have access to one of the original cds. I could simply delete all
these tracks and re-import and analyze but there are two cds I no
longer have access to. This certainly isn't the end of the world
but it would be convenient to fix.<br>
Thanks again for your assistance.</p>
<p>--- On Sat, 11/27/10, hendrik
<a>tender+d68d50d424e48c57fd086a5d05a4ed3aaebbe3de3@tenderapp.com</a>
wrote:</p>
<p>From: hendrik
<a>tender+d68d50d424e48c57fd086a5d05a4ed3aaebbe3de3@tenderapp.com</a><br>
Subject: Re: Incorrect Track Names [Problems]<br>
To: "<a href="mailto:tpwig@yahoo.com">tpwig@yahoo.com</a>"
<a>tpwig@yahoo.com</a><br>
Date: Saturday, November 27, 2010, 2:17 AM</p></div>Tom Wiggintontag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:Comment/39570642010-11-30T10:16:53Z2010-11-30T10:16:53ZIncorrect Track Names<div><p>Hi Tom,</p>
<p>the problem here is now, that some of your songs are associated
with the wrong PUIDs -and at this point, there is no way to delete
them in beaTunes, but by deleting the whole database. If you have
nothing important in the internal beaTunes database (keys, BPM,
language, color), you could just delete it by following the
directions in <a href=
"http://help.beatunes.com/faqs/troubleshooting/beatunes-does-not-start-shows-jdbcexception">
http://help.beatunes.com/faqs/troubleshooting/beatunes-does-not-sta...</a></p>
<p>Hope this helps,</p>
<p>-hendrik</p></div>hendriktag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:Comment/39570642010-12-01T15:15:44Z2010-12-01T15:15:44ZIncorrect Track Names<div><p>That solved everything. Thank you very much for your help.</p>
<p>--- On Tue, 11/30/10, hendrik
<a>tender+d68d50d424e48c57fd086a5d05a4ed3aaebbe3de3@tenderapp.com</a>
wrote:</p>
<p>From: hendrik
<a>tender+d68d50d424e48c57fd086a5d05a4ed3aaebbe3de3@tenderapp.com</a><br>
Subject: Re: Incorrect Track Names [Problems]<br>
To: "<a href="mailto:tpwig@yahoo.com">tpwig@yahoo.com</a>"
<a>tpwig@yahoo.com</a><br>
Date: Tuesday, November 30, 2010, 3:16 AM</p></div>Tom Wiggintontag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:Comment/39570642010-12-01T15:25:33Z2010-12-01T15:25:33ZIncorrect Track Names<div><p>Good. It's certainly not a neat solution, but it works.</p>
<p>-hendrik</p></div>hendrik