[Ti] OT: HELP! Itunes deletes album name as it plays song

[Kynan Shook]

Well, I've never used iEatBrainz, but I can tell you what's happening.  
It seems that your MP3 files have had the album name removed from the 
ID3 tags.  When iTunes starts playing a song, it re-reads the ID3 tags 
to see if they've changed from the cached information stored in the 
iTunes library.  Presumably, iEatBrainz (or perhaps some other 
application) has removed the ID3 tags from these files.

The only way I can think of to re-add them would be to select one album 
at a time, and change the album name just slightly (to get iTunes to 
save the change), and then change it to whatever you want it to be.  If 
what you want the name to be isn't exactly what comes up in the dialog 
box initially, then you don't need the intermediate change - it's just 
that if you try to save the name without changing it, iTunes is usually 
"smart" enough to not actually write the name since it assumes nothing 
changed.  I'm not sure whether this will be a problem for you, so I'm 
just including it as a step.  You can play around and see if it's 
necessary.

HTH

<maf291 at nyu.edu> writes:
> I have the strangest problem with itunes (latest version)...
>
> everytime I play a song now, it deletes the Album Name! I can see it
> happen in front of my eyes. Goes to the next track, as soon as it 
> starts
> playing.
>
> I had been using ieatbrainz to clean up some of my MP3 tags... the
> problem seems to have started then. But ieatbrainz is not running, I 
> have
> quit and restarted itunes, and the problem persists.
>
> Anybody else run into something similar? Any suggestions?