Can someone help me with a tech problem:
I have all the EPs bought from Qobuz and put into iTunes.
What I want now is to create a new ‘album’ (not a playlist) with the nine original songs as a hypothetical NGHFB album 4, with custom artwork etc.
However, iTunes is seeing the songs as dupes and not importing them.
Any ideas how I can achieve this?
Apologies if some of this sounds either too condescendingly simple or too hard - everybody has different computer skills these days (was it this forum a few months ago where I saw somebody didn't even know how to change the name of a file they had downloaded?) so what I thought was easy a ten years ago is hard for some people.
Every time you try to add the songs you downloaded from Qobuz into itunes it correctly recognises them as dupes as they're exactly the same song file with the same information embedded in them.
You can make as many different playlists using those songs as you like on itunes but it won't change the information embedded in the mp3 file like the album title and cover art.
So you need a second copy of those mp3 song files in a new folder on your computer.
I don't know what Qobuz is (an online music store I guess) so I don't know if you have easy access to the original mp3 files you downloaded. They will be on your computer somewhere but it may be be hard to find them. If you can find them then just copy and paste them to a second folder.
If you can't find them then itunes may let you burn a CDr from those files. Burn all the tracks to a CDr then rip the CDr back as mp3 files on your hard drive and put them in a new folder.
Option three is to get some free software like jdownloader. Simply find the tracks on youtube and copy the url into jdownloader. Jdownloader will ask you if you want an mp3 file of that video and where you want to download it to. Download all the mp3 files directly to your new folder. It takes seconds.
Anyway once you have all the new mp3 files in a new folder (via whatever method) you can go into file manager and change all the album artwork and album title information on those new files just by right clicking on the mp3 files and changing any of the fields that come up. You can use free software like mp3tag to bulk (or individually) change all the artwork.
Import the new files to itunes (it will recognise them as different files now) and make a new playlist.
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