i-tunes Q

[arguchik]

so i had to re-load everything onto my new computer today. on saturday when i used the migration assistant to transfer files from my old laptop, it screwed a few things up, and after consulting with a geek guru, i decided a clean re-install of everything was a necessary step. i figured out a better way to transfer my files over, and it's pretty much done now. however...i have 6 "orphan" songs that showed up at the bottom of my i-tunes library. they are called, simply, "Track 01," "Track 01," (yes there are two of those) "Track 02," "Track 03," "Track 04," and "Track 05." Their lengths are 1:57, 3:53, 4:45, 6:17, 1:10, and 3:36, respectively. i have played them and i don't recognize the artists.

any suggestions for how to reunite these orphans with their mother albums?

added later: a second question: what to do about the sad blank space where there was no album artwork available? can i get that album artwork elsewhere? (e.g. no artwork was available for any of my beatles albums; and beck's "one foot in the grave" also remains artless. among others...)

oh, and a third question: why does i-tunes break up some albums, rather than keeping the songs together? this happened particularly with speakerboxx (several of the songs have guest artists, and when i click the "album view" option in i-tunes, it shows each song with a guest artist as its own separate album.

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[arguchik.livejournal.com]

actually, both of my computers are running the most up to date version of i-tunes--i always keep up with the updates (my OS-X updater is set to automatically check for updates every day, on both computers).

see my comment to glaucon for what the new i-tunes library did with the first song from reginal spektor's album, as an example of why this is weird.

i think the speakerboxx guest artist songs were separated in my old i-tunes library too; it just looks more pronounced in this i-tunes library because i'm using the album view rather than the basic song-list view. (if you have i-tunes, i'm using the middle option on the view menu, which puts the album artwork to the left of the song list for that album.)