tag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:/discussions/suggestions/2077-tuneup-messbeaTunes: Discussion 2014-07-30T08:45:48Ztag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:Comment/339408212014-07-29T10:07:33Z2014-07-29T10:07:33ZTuneUp Mess<div><blockquote>
<p>CDs of Time Life Ultimate Love Songs (alright - stop laughing,
my wife loves it)</p>
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<p>:-D</p>
<p>Unfortunately, the audio portion of those songs is identical,
regardless of whether they have been released in the compilation or
in the original. This makes it impossible for any software to
distinguish between releases and pick the right one.</p>
<p>If you want to give the automatic approach another shot, I would
manually fill in the correct album names as best I can (i.e. "Time
Life Ultimate Love Songs") and then run the import meta data task
in beaTunes with the option "Force lookup via fingerprint"
checked.<br>
When matching, beaTunes does take existing album names and track
numbers into account when trying to find the right release. I.e.,
if your <em>Time Life Ultimate Love Songs</em> all have the album
name "Time Life Ultimate Love Songs" set <em>and</em> this
particular release of the song happens to be in the database,
beaTunes will pick the right information. But frankly, if you had
that information, you'd probably be better of to mass-edit in
iTunes or any other tag editor manually.</p>
<p>My guess is that with beaTunes you would get mixed results at
best, if you went for automatic "fixing".</p>
<p>Also, always be <em>very careful</em> when replacing meta
data... As you have already found out the hard way, things might
get worse, not better, when replacing album and album artist
names.</p>
<p>Another idea, if you have ripped your CDs with iTunes, is to
order by "Date Added" and figure out that way, what songs belong
together. This perhaps allows you to mass-edit their album names
and artists.</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>-hendrik</p></div>hendrik