Importing audio to Music: tracks end up in another album!

[Slydude]

That is a little odd. From what you describe Amadeus Pro can do a similar thing using markers to designate tracks inside of a larger file. I tried that some time ago and I found it a little awkward. I couldn't possibly have borked up the process.

When I do this I select the contents of what will be a track, cut it out of the larger file, paste the content into a new track, and save was a file. I started this because I didn't quite understand how to do things reliably the way you do.

The up side to all this is that individual tracks are saved as separate files. Downloads from the iTunes Store and several other places are treated this way so things seem to be nudging me in that direction. Lol.

 

[clivechafer]

Thanks again, Slydude. I'm not sure it would make any difference to cut the tracks out of the Audacity file and save them separately since they end up as separate tracks on my desktop anyway. I think as far as Music is concerned, they would be incoming as separate tracks whichever way they were created in Audacity. But it is odd that I have to manually insert the track title info in the metadata when the program already knows what the track is called! I'll go back to the Audacity forum and see if I can get a better answer.

 

[Slydude]

Operationally, I think you're right. It probably doesn't matter which way things are done. Both methods allow users to define tracks, tag them with relevant metadata, and organize them into a coherent library.

If the process you're using works for you I see no reason to change it.

I might try your method again and see if I can get it to work for me. The last time I tried it something didn't work properly. I'll concede that it was probably operator error.

 

[clivechafer]

So the "better answer" is to download a program that allows you to change the metadata on audio tracks. They suggest Kid3 or MP3Tag. the former is free and open source, the latter free trial then pay. You can guess which one I'm going to try first!

 

[Slydude]

There are several similar programs available. I haven't tried most of them. Let us know what you think of those programs. since i tend to do a few albums/tracks at a time I usually do things manually.