Feel free to shoot me down if advice conflicts or is duplicated elsewhere. I am in the process of ripping my cd collection to mp3 through itunes and have come up with a few tips to reduce some of the hassles.
Gracenote internet database sometimes has a few issues with multi-cd compilations. It's often easier to change the name of the album before ripping.
Ie. Insert your cd, in itunes go to the cd, and it should list artist, album, etc. If you know that you have several cd's as part of a set then I suggest you do the following :-
- Click 'Edit' then 'Select All', right click the selection and then hit 'Get Info'.
- If part of a compilation ensure that this box is ticked yes. This will then put the album in the compilations folder of your itunes directory.
- In the album title, add (CD 1 of 3) or whatever to correspond the CD that you are ripping.
- Repeat for other CD's in the set, adding (CD 2 of 3) and so on.
Secondly, if you need to amend anything, do it from within Itunes, and not via the My Music/iTunes/iTunes Music folder. iTunes will keep your file structure up to date but if you do it the other way round, iTunes will just cough up an error stating it cant find the track.
Trust this helps.