How to Submit Missing CD Information via iTunes

Occasionally iTunes can't find the CD track information on the CDDB. And as luck would have it, you can submit missing track information through iTunes, not only for your own Library, but for everyone else who uses Gracenote's Music Search (aka CDDB).

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Computer
• iTunes
• CD
• CD Track Information (or liner notes)

1. Start up iTunes.

2. Insert your CD into your computer. If the CD track information is not available on CDDB, go to the next step. Otherwise, you don't need to do anything but enjoy the music.

3. 

   Select "No" in the window that says "The song names for this CD could not be found online. Do you still want to import the songs?". It's not necessary to import the songs to your Library if you're submitting the track information.

4. 

   Right-click (or control-click on a one-button mouse on a Mac) the first track and select "Get Info".

5. 

   Fill in the track information for the song you selected. You just need to fill out the name of the track for now. Hit "OK" when you're done.

6. Repeat Steps 4 & 5 for each remaining track.

7. 

   Select the "Advanced" tab once you've filled out the track name for each song, and choose the "Submit CD Track Names" option.

8. 

   Type in the CD information including Artist, Composer (if known), Album title, Year & select or type in the Genre.

9. 

   If you typed in the Genre, and CDDB does not recognize it, you will be forced to select a Genre from the list provided. Select the Genre & hit the "OK" button.

10. 

    When CDDB has accepted your information, you'll get a confirmation window. Select "OK" to close this window.

Tips & Warnings

• Remember to name each track before you submit the CD track names to CDDB, otherwise you'll give Gracenote CDDB partial information.

Resources

• Apple iTunes
• Gracenote CDDB

[boraxx]

on 12/3/2008 Great tutorial. What if you don't want to use CDDB though? I put up instructions so other people can see how to do it. I hope it's helpful!

http://obscuredclarity.blogspot.com/2008/11/import-cd-into-itunes-when-artist-album.html

[gnairooze]

on 9/13/2008 I've followed the above steps, and it worked fine on my PC. But when I put my Audio PC in another PC, it remain unknown.

[gnairooze]

on 9/13/2008 I followed the above steps. The Audio CD recognized fine on my PC. But when I tried the same Audio CD on another PC, it remains unknown.

[southernlady]

on 8/16/2008 Thank you so much for writing this!!

[southernlady]

on 8/16/2008 Thank you so much for writing this!!