Add iTunes Comments
Add iTunes Comments
Mac Tip #222/30-November-2005
Select a track in iTunes and choose Get Info from the File menu. Click on the Info tab and you’ll see a comments area. Some tracks may already contain comments.
If you want to add your own comment (such as ‘keeper’ for any tracks you want to note as being worthy of keeping) you can enter it here. That’s fine for one or two tracks, but if you want to mark several in one session it’s awfully tedious.
Visit Doug’s Applescripts for iTunes at www.dougscripts.com/itunes and download the Append to Comments script.
Doug explains what to do with the script you download: Running AppleScripts in iTunes.
Now you can add the same comment to multiple tracks with ease. Select one or more tracks and choose the script from the scripts menu. Enter the text for your comment and choose where to place your text: before or after any existing comment. After a few moments the script will let you know when it’s completed the task.
Be sure to click on the screenshot thumbnails for larger versions.
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Once again I must thank you for such a nice lesson, I always enjoy finding new links, it keep my mind off of laying in this bed all day, please keep up the good work and if my time should come tomorrow or before your next lesson have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year and may all your wishes come true.
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I am desperate to edit my itunes library by adding composers, or moving
movement names out of the artist column. I have learned how to add
and subtract columns, but sometimes the information (e.g. Bach is the
composer) doesn’t appear when you go to info. Even if it is correct, sometimes
everything gets thrown in the artist column. HOW CAN ONE EDIT THE
COLUMNS TO REMOVE OR MOVE ITEMS TO A DIFFERENT COLUMN?
To edit a column call up the Get Info window, make sure you’re on the Info tab, and then just cut and paste to suit.
You can also edit columns in place within the Library: if there is already text in the column then click on it and edit. If there is no text, then the trick is to click where the first letter would be, then you can edit.
How do I remove the limit to adding comments to videos, its gets the about three lines of text and then truncates deletes anything esle - so I can keep writing but the next time I load the file’s info the data (past a certain point) is missing.
I think it will involve editing the Itunes database library file? Any help?
Samuel: sorry - I haven’t come across that one myself as I don’t generally add long comments to videos. Did you come across an answer anywhere else?
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