Sunday, 28 October 2012

How to get your song titles recognised in iTunes

Getting your titles recognised in iTunes is independent of which digital distribution/aggregator you use. iTunes gets its information from GraceNote.  You don't need to use CD Baby or any of the other service

  1. You put your CD master in your computer and when iTunes kicks in and show you Track 1 Track 2 etc. - do NOT import into iTunes
  2. Use File / Get Info to edit the titles of your tracks yet again, of course adding Artist information etc. 
  3. When all this is done choose Advanced / Submit CD Track Names. 
  4. There is a bit more to fill in the dialogue box - and this depends on the cross referencing with the Info you already completed. Gracenote does, for example, have a different categorisation of music genre than iTunes itself. 
  5.  After you submit it, it takes 1 or 2 days to be accepted into the Gracenotes database. Next time you put your CD in, you should see it with the correct titles - and in case you think its remembered from when you edited on your computer, then try it on a different computer and you will see it really did work. 


You can register with Gracenotes http://www.gracenote.com/ but I actually don't think that registration is used at all in the process.

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