You can see it is complaining about the *.cue files that live within the Stuff.zip files. You can ignore this and click on OK to continue. I have not yet figured out how to stop this happening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When you are ready to run it should look like:<\/p>\n\n\n\nAlso set the “Filename:” to be “%albumartist% – %album%\\%track2%. %title%”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To start the conversion click on “Start”. Depending on your computer it will process<\/p>\n\n\n\nTest in iTunes<\/h2>\n\n\n\n The acid test of how well this whole process has worked is to put the new CDs into iTunes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you can I would suggest removing all the other music from iTunes just to make it obvious what is going on. Then add the root folder containing only those CDs you have just archived. Now set iTunes to show in “Song” mode, selected in the left hand panel of iTunes:<\/p>\n\n\n\nWhen viewing in the above it is easy to see if things are consistent and there are any tracks that are wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A classic example of what you need to be able to see is to switch to “Albums” view and look at the below as an example:<\/p>\n\n\n\nYou can see that iTunes has recognized that there are two discs to this album and what tracks go in what disk and kept the numbering correct. It has also brought back the correct artwork and artist details.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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