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iTunes Renaming My Songs When I Play Them

by glacier_fed Mar 19, 2010 6:39AM PDT

I'll be going thru my list clicking a bunch of songs, say making a playlist for example, and often when I click on a song, it gets renamed (artist, song, album). 90% of the time, the song/album gets changed, but the artist stays the same. But sometimes it changes it to something new altogether. The kicker, though, is that the new song/artist/album is ALWAYS a duplicate of something I already have. This has happened without me clicking on songs as well. I just went to Show Duplicates and iTunes it appears iTunes has renamed about 200 of my songs. Often I don't even know what song I'm hearing, and if the lyrics aren't on google, I have to leave the song and artist as UNKNOWN. This problem has only started in the last few months.

iTunes 9.0.3.15 with iPod Classic 80GB
Windows Vista
HP Pavillion dv6000 series

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by r. proffitt Forum moderator Mar 19, 2010 6:42AM PDT

Unchecking "Keep my iTunes library organized" in the options.

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of course, but...

by glacier_fed Mar 19, 2010 8:04AM PDT

The problem with that is that I do like iTunes organizing my music. It keeps my music folder clean and so forth. The problem I'm having seems to be a sort of glitch, since it's only naming songs after songs I already have, and it's never correct. It'd be one thing for it to capitalize a few letters or correct spelling, maybe add a track number, but this is something else altogether

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