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Highmac:
iTunes 8.2.1, Toast Titanium 8.0.5, OS10.4.11
A folder from iTunes is burned to disc (via iTunes) and the completed disc appears on desktop with name of a disc I burned in Toast over a year ago...  

It's a problem I've had in Toast as well (coming up with the same 'wrong' title on every CD burned). A Google search found many people with the same problem but none who had found the answer. So.... anybody here cleverer than that lot? Thing is, that title appears absolutely nowhere else in Toast prefs or menus, and only in the iTunes library. I suspect a corrupted pref but don't know which one to bin!

Xairbusdriver:
QUOTEhing is, that title appears absolutely nowhere else in Toast prefs or menus, and only in the iTunes library.Well, my question is, how did the 'title' get into iTunes? When I burn disks in iTunes (and that's all I use) I have to create and name a new 'library/folder' to put the files in. Well, I do unless I simply delete files in a previous 'library' and put new files in there. I've mistakenly done that and it's not what I really want, but it is easy to do.

My point is, whatever the name of the 'library' in iTunes, will be the title of the disk. I'm not sure what Toast has to do with any of this unless you had originally burned a disk in Toast and then dumped/duped it into iTunes and created a 'library' for it, thus creating a 'library' name there? This is just my guess as a minor user of iTunes and not a user of Toast since OS 8.something.

Could you please list the steps you take, in minute detail, including the type of chair you sit in, while performing this task?

Oh, have you repaired permissions?

Highmac:
QUOTE(Xairbusdriver @ Nov 24 2009, 03:03 PM) QUOTEhing is, that title appears absolutely nowhere else in Toast prefs or menus, and only in the iTunes library.Well, my question is, how did the 'title' get into iTunes? When I burn disks in iTunes (and that's all I use) I have to create and name a new 'library/folder' to put the files in. Well, I do unless I simply delete files in a previous 'library' and put new files in there. I've mistakenly done that and it's not what I really want, but it is easy to do.

My point is, whatever the name of the 'library' in iTunes, will be the title of the disk. I'm not sure what Toast has to do with any of this unless you had originally burned a disk in Toast and then dumped/duped it into iTunes and created a 'library' for it, thus creating a 'library' name there? This is just my guess as a minor user of iTunes and not a user of Toast since OS 8.something.

Could you please list the steps you take, in minute detail, including the type of chair you sit in, while performing this task?

Oh, have you repaired permissions?


1) In reverse order.... Many times!
2) Not right now as I'm about to take steps to the table for my curry and rice.....

Will be back later, probably tomorrow morning - that's the middle of the night your time

Xairbusdriver:
I was just pulling your chain about the Repair Permissions, I seriously doubt it would have any effect on this problem.

But I'm wondering how the songs were first added to any library in iTunes. I think there is a place where it stores/reads the title of the CD. Simply putting these into a folder/library may automatically include that name as the new disk/library/folder name. Or iTunes may very well see that "CD Name" and use it.

The above, of course, means that the CD was originally named something and burned in Toast. Is that the case in all the CDs with 'incorrect' names?

Oh yeah, be sure to keep your tongue inside your mouth when burning a CD with iTunes... And be especially careful not to bite it! (Your tongue, that is...)

BTW, you know you can write the CD name on the non-recorded side with a felt marker pen...or, better yet, on there and the paper CD sleeve...I used to use a Sharpie, but they took all sharp objects away from me last year.

krissel:
When a CD is burned it does not have the title 'burned' with it. iTunes attempts to name the CD from data it has stored in the CDDB files in your user preferences. These files can become corrupted so that's the place to start.

Eject the CD.
Dump the following:

~/Library/Preferences/CDDB Preferences

Log out and back in, then insert CD.

If that doesn't give it a new name (probably Audio CD) then eject the CD, dump or temporarily move this file:

~/Library/Preferences/CD Info.cidb

Log out/in, insert CD.



Here's more info as to how the titles are chosen.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3814

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