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Wonky iTunes
Really Crazy
I’ve never been one to complain about iTunes. In fact, I quite like it, contrary to the opinions of many friends. Recently, though, it’s been hard to maintain that stance.
You see, my iTunes is going insane. Seriously. Like an angry panda. It started quite a long time ago when it wouldn’t play some tracks completely. They would always skip to the end after reaching a certain point. I assumed I had bad sectors or bad files. Then the problems disappeared for a while. I thought that maybe it was just acting up.
Then cover art began to disappear. Not completely, of course. That would be too obvious. My iTunes Evil Edition is far more devious than that. They started to disappear from select songs within albums. In other words, the album art would suddenly not show up in my iPod.
I thought it had something to do with the fact that I had loaded up my iPod library on an Eee PC and maybe it just screwed up the cover art.
I found out I was wrong when more cover art began to disappear. I hadn’t changed a thing.
Then just last week, I had trouble editing ID Tag information. With some files, the information would be lost forever and I appeared to have some form of file corruption because the files when replaced by exactly the same ones from my back-ups would turn out to be a tiny bit smaller. Like 0.01MB smaller. I’ve since learnt that this happens when I change ID Tag information in bulk. Specifically cover art information. And it only happens to one or two files in a lot of ten to twenty. When it happens, I can’t change any information on the tag.
And just yesterday, I noticed some inconsistent genre labelling which wouldn’t happen since I label everything by the lot. But it happened. Like they refused to be changed along with them others.
I did correct them, but it was unnerving to see.
Today, I played one of my favourite albums, only to see that the second track had mysteriously been pushed to the last. This occurred only on my iPod. It’s still the second track on my iTunes.
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I’ll have to see where this goes. There are few things on this earth that make me glum to see, and angry pandas are one of them.
The Graveyard Book…
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Hey my cover art disappears too. It’s kinda annoying. I encounter this problem before iTunes 8 though. Sometimes I open my files with the Zune software and Zune tries to add some additional media information such as composers and stuff. I noticed that while the cover art is still there for Zune and Windows Vista to display, iTunes cannot detect it. Closer examination (with magnifying glass) shows the cover art still in the file but iTunes just won’t read it. Ah that sucks.
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