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Bulk Edit Tracks In Your Itunes Library.

By Joshua Schnell Mon, Nov 5, 2007 @ 11:31 AM

I’m not sure why I haven’t noticed this before, or tried for that matter, but up until now I had no idea that you are able to bulk edit tracks in your itunes library. I’m not sure if this had been added recently or has been kicking around since the first version of iTunes, but all that matters now is that I am able to use this functionality. Man, you have no idea how much time I’m going to save adding high-res artwork to my tracks. Here’s the steps.

Steps to edit multiple tracks in iTunes

  1. Open itunes
  2. Highlight the tracks you want to edit
  3. Right Click, or Ctrl Click
  4. Get Info
  5. Edit what you want

Okay, so it’s not really all that complicated, but I just had to tell someone about this. It’s a lot easier for me to add artwork to an entire album at once instead of adding artwork to every track individually. Here’s a quick screen cap of the dialog box.


itunesmultiedit Bulk Edit Tracks In Your Itunes Library.

Joshua Schnell

  • Robert

    Man…thank you!

    As a newbie Itunes user, I still can’t believe I can’t drag and drop tracks like I can in WMP to move tracks to their right albums or artits etc, but at least now I can manually update them with this trick! Are all features like this as hard to find?

  • http://www.macgasm.net Joshua Schnell

    Nah, iTunes has a long way to go for some of the features you mentioned, but, it’s well on it’s way imo!

  • http://www.rahulmax.com rahulmax

    Cool! thanks.. that's kind of obvious but I never noticed.

  • http://www.rahulmax.com rahulmax

    Cool! thanks.. that's kind of obvious but I never noticed.

  • chrissy

    I tried this and haven’t had success. I do it, and push okay but the file names don’t actually change. Why isn;t it saving it?

    • http://Macgasm.net Joshua Schnell

      I’m not sure, have you tried it with a small group of files? Could be the file type.

  • Richie

    man i fucking hate iTunes. i used to use winamp to do all my editing because it is literally 5000 times easier and 100,000 times faster.

    i recently bought a new ipod touch, and i guess apple has some gay protection on it so i can no longer use winamp to edit my music. along with that, i spent probably over 10 hours total, editing all my tracks manually in winamp and making them easy to access. after putting all the music onto my new ipod of COURSE itunes fucked up all the data. now i get to manually convert it back using my FAVORITE program….

    it takes 5 minutes to edit one fucking track. i tried to bulk edit like 20 songs, and i shit you not, it was taking 2 minutes per song to edit the genre. WHY?!?@!?!?!!? why the fuck does itunes suck so god damn bad?!

    • http://www.macgasm.net Joshua Schnell

      I never realized it was such a problem to bulk edit tracks. It seems to work flawlessly for me. Are you using iTunes on your Mac or on a Windows machine?

  • John

    Looking for this feature for ages thanks