OSXFAQ Mac OS X Tip-of-the-Day  

Today's tip explores MP3 Tag editing. Select a track and press Command-i (or select Get Info from the File menu). You can change much of the information that's displayed in the main iTunes window, such as the artist and track names, or the genre, if they are not quite right (CDDB is not always correct).

Suppose, however, you wish to change the artist name or genre for a complete album or set of albums. To do so, simply select all the tracks in iTunes - click the first track in the range and shift-click the last. Alternatively, command click to switch in or out individual tracks from the selection. Now press Command-i and click Yes on the ensuing warning dialogue. Now, when you change the artist or other such information, the change will affect all the selected tracks.

Here are some of the more useful keystroke short-cuts:

Pressing the Arrow causes iTunes to jump to the next track, while Back-Arrow jumps to the previous track.

Alt-Arrow skips entire albums. Alt-Command-Arrow fast forwards through the currently playing track. Pressing Back-Arrow goes in the reverse direction.

One final tip, press Command-j to bring up the View Options dialogue and check Equalizer. Now you can easily change the equalizer setting on a per track basis by selecting from the pop-up in the new Equalizer column in iTunes main window.

Tomorrow's tip shows you how you can flip through your iTunes albums by browsing cover art.

Enjoy! :- )

Tiger 10.4.4