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I have some MP3s on my Mac. I want to import them into my iPhone. The problem is that, using iTunes, the iPhone automatically create several folders or albums, depending on the artist, the album, the genre (and so on) of one particular MP3 file.
Using Windows it's easy to prevent this, since I can delete manually all of these tags and file information, but using the Mac I seem to not be able to do this. Is there any way to delete this information?
iTunes will put any songs that aren't compatible into a Not Added folder (underneath Automatically Add). If your music wasn't compatible then you would find them in the Not Added folder. So it seems that they are compatible, just not getting deleted.
I would check the permissions on these files and see if iTunes has permission to delete them. Command-i on the files and folder concerned and ensure your use can read and write them.
Another solution is to open the Console.app application (found in the utility folder in Applications) and observe the output of that whilst iTunes is adding the music and see if there are any specific error messages that may point to why it isn't deleting the files.
"Sync only checked songs and videos" was un-ticked.
When an iOS device is connected to iTunes, under the device's Summary tab, the Options section has a checkbox Named "Sync only checked songs and videos"; this option enforces the removal of music that is not set to sync if it has been synced to the device in the past.
Ticking the box and then syncing removed the offending album.
Best Answer
Within iTunes, you can select the file and press command-I to get the file information. You can then delete all the meta-data associated with the mp3.