[iTunes] iTunes 9 falls short

[Dale Shera]

On Sep 28, 2009, at 4:16 PM, Louis wrote:

> It's simply this: In Preferences/Advanced/Importing one had the  
> option in Tunes 7 of importing CDs with or without track numbers.  
> Tunes 8 and 9 eliminates this option and shoves track numbers in  
> your face whether ya want 'em or not. This means that when storing  
> songs externally, they're not listed by name alphabetically, but by  
> their original track numbers associated with the CDs they came from.  
> Stewwww pid.... This forced you to organize your library by having  
> all track 01 songs clumped together from different albums, then all  
> track 02 songs, etc. etc.

I'm having trouble seeing the issue here. Why would you want to 'store  
songs externally' anyway? That kind of defeats the purpose of Apple's  
"ease of use", doesn't it? It appears to me that iTunes rips/stores  
things in a pretty responsible way. It puts the iTunes Music folder in  
your Music folder; sorts things in folders by Artist; then by Album;  
then by track in the order that it appears on the album. Pulling  
things manually out of this folder structure is not the way iTunes is  
intended to work.

>
> This is not only awkward but just plain annoying. And dumb.
>
> iTunes 9 badly needs an update: users need to opt out of the  
> dictatorship of storing by track numbers.

Overstate things much?

Anyway, a Google search yielded these results:

On Windows:
http://www.technipages.com/itunes-for-windows-disable-track-numbers-on-imported-cds.html

On a Mac, download this donationware script, install and configure it  
to remove the first three characters of the filename and then run it  
on your library:
http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=removenchars

Hopefully, one of them will get you closer to what you are looking for  
in your music app. Good luck.

Dale