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I am a new Audacity user (Version 1.3.5d (Unicode)) on a iMAC (OS-X 10.4.11). I have recorded a multi-track LP as an Audacity file and have followed the Wiki instructions for adding labels and exporting. When I first exported it, I used Export Multiple as instructed, using Label/Track Name ("Name Files" button). Then, when I transferred the files to iTunes, they were ordered alphabetically, not in the order they were recorded and did not show the Album name (and thus were scattered thruout the iTunes music library).
I then tried Export Multiple again, but used the "Name Files" button: "Numbering consecutively". Now the tracks are in the right order, but the track names are lost, even though I filled out the form for each track with Track Name, Artist Name, Album Name, etc. When I transferred the files to iTunes, all this information I entered seems to be lost; wasn't in evidence when I added the files to iTunes. In order to name the tracks and preserve the track order in iTunes, I had to re-enter the Track Name and Album Name for each track, even though I had already entered all this information when doing the export.
The bottom line is that I'm trying to export music as separate tracks in the order I have specified, to be organized in an album name that I have specified. How do I do this in a less time consuming manner than described above? Is this an Audacity issue or is it an iTunes issue?

What I do is
1) name my tracks as 01 <track_name_1>, 02 <track_name_>, 03 <track_name_3> etc.
2) Use the Export multiple to export a set of WAV files to a dedicated folder for the particular LP
3) The export then provides a set of correctly numbered tracks with correct tracknames appended
4) Backup the WAV files (I backup to two external USB discs) - you don't want to lose all this valuable work ....
5) Burn a music CD from the WAV files (using Nero, RecordNow or similar)
6) Rip the CD into iTunes (I use AAC at 192)
7) If I am lucky then the Gracenote CDDB will recognize the LP/CD and provide all the necessary metadata - if not then I provide the metadata by typing it it in and then submitting the data to Gracenote.

The other tool that I use that may be useful to you is a great piece of click removal software called ClickRepair - it costs a little but is well worth it - see this thread of mine: http://audacityteam.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=1994

WC

What you have to Do is Download A Lame file to export as MP3 i'm not sure what the name of file is but my dad helped me out with my Audacity Recorder program! Now i can record Multi-Track Recording by going to Preferences & Click on play Other tracks while recording a new one Check mark that & your set

hope this helps
Tommy

Music CDs don't carry any of that information, which is one of the reasons iTunes keeps dropping it all. The music on a Music CD is always labeled something ike CDA01, CDA02, etc. I believe the limit for a standard Music CD is 99 tracks.

Only when you put the CD into a computer that can access the internet does the system figure out what you did and what all the names are. It does it by song duration and order, nothing else. The titles are not on the disk.

Although the Music Library will garden hose your music all over the place, Playlists do not. Create a new playlist, drag your songs over to it and rearrange 'til your fingers bleed. Pull this tune further down and push that one further up. You can play it all right there, too. The music will stay in the order you select. Select Burn and push a blank CD in the machine when prompted (and not before). Since iTunes is a full authoring program, you can have the option of changing the gap between songs--normally two seconds. It's possible that if you rearrange the music, the on-line title finder services may not know the titles any more.

I burned a disk of my own compositions--Gaelic South African Disco--and iTunes insisted I was Glenn Miller.

If only.

Koz

When you imported your songs in iTunes, and they don't appear together, because they have (for some reason) lost their ID3 tag info, you can find them all back again, by ordering your Music library by "Date Added". Since the collection concerned will - presumably - be imported at relatively the same moment (within 1 minute or so), and no other imports will have intersected this, your tracks should all be found together then:

• Display your (complete) Music Library, by selecting "Music" under the heading "Library" in the left pane;
• Visualise the track information by selecing the Menu "View" and there the Option "As List" (or press [cmd]+[opt]+3 ([WIN]+[ALT]+3));
• right-click the bar with the headings per column (e.g right-click on "Name") and in the menu selected, activate "Date Added";
• click on the label "Date Added" and the list of all your tracks will be sorted according to this field.

If you do this right after importing your "unlabeled" collection, you'll have all your tracks together at the top of you music library list, ready for editing the ID3-tracks of your collection.