User talk:David

• Q: HI can someone help me - I am down loading tracks from a mini disc to my lap top and having trouble exporting the track with the correct file name!

  I can down load with no problem - when I come to save the files as mp3 selection I create afolder with the album title on it then save the individual names songs straight to this folder. When I go to move these songs to i tunes I lose all the tiels and end up with all the songs being called the name of the first - I then have to go through each song and re-name it..... I only get asked on the first song download to fill out the name of the song/album etc

• Gale 05 Oct 09: David, We don't offer question and answer help on the Wiki, it's not set up for that.

  To display a "Name" in the iTunes window, MP3s need to have the Title tag filled in. For WAV files, iTunes will use the name of the file instead.

  File names are always individual, but I'm guessing you are using a 1.2 version of Audacity and exporting MP3 files one at a time. Because Audacity 1.2 only asks you once for tags, it will make the tags the same for all the files, so they will all have the same "name" in iTunes.

  The better way is to use labels to enter the file names, then export multiple to export all the individual files at one go. You will still only be asked once for the Artist, Album and Genre information, but the Title of each track will be chosen automatically from the file names, so each file should then have an individual name in the iTunes window. See Splitting recordings into separate tracks.

  If you need further help with using Audacity, please ask on our Forum. First of all, try searching the Forum for your question. If you don't find your answer, register, confirm your registration then log in. Choose the correct subforum (for example, Audacity 1.2.x for Windows), click "New Topic" top left, then submit your question.