Windows – Editing songs in iTunes 11.0.2

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I've recently got a new Windows laptop and downloaded and installed the latest iTunes (11.0.2). All my music (over 5000 songs) went into iTunes fine, just as they were on my old laptop. However I have now noticed that when I download new music and add it to my iTunes it won't allow me to edit the songs through "Get Info" even though the songs I transferred from my old laptop can be edited perfectly fine. Can anyone help? Thank you.

Best Answer

  1. check if you have relocated songs.
  2. check if your files can be rewritten.

I use self-written python program to remove stale content.

import win32com.client
itunes= win32com.client.Dispatch("iTunes.Application")
ITTrackKindFile=1
mainLibrary = itunes.LibraryPlaylist
tracks = mainLibrary.Tracks
numTracks = tracks.Count
deletedTracks=0
batch_size = 90 
deleted = []
while True:
  while numTracks  !=0:
   currTrack=tracks.Item(numTracks)
   if currTrack.Kind == ITTrackKindFile:
       if currTrack.Location == "":
         deleted.append(currTrack)
   numTracks-=1
   for track in deleted:
      track.Delete()
      deletedTracks+=1
   del deleted[:] # free memory and close handles
   if not numTracks:
     break

if deletedTracks > 0:
if deletedTracks == 1:
  print "Removed 1 dead track."
else:
  print "Removed " + str(deletedTracks) + " dead tracks."
else:
  print "No dead tracks were found."
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