recording record albums in audition

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July 23, 2020
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What is the best way to record (vinyl) for use in itunes? I am presently recording and marking cue for each track. Then exporting to desktop. When I open in itunes all tracks are saved as individule song files. How do I save these song files into a album file in itunes?

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SteveG_AudioMasters_

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A google search reveals the answer very quickly: create album in iTunes

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louisr26008490Author

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Hello Steve,

Thank you for your advice. I am fully aware regarding the workflow required to manage within iTunes. My issue is managing metadata or workflow within Audition. It's only a guess, but I think my problem is the handshake between the iTunes and Audition because the metadata in Audition is not communicated with iTunes.

Let me elaborate my issues.

Recording device is a record turntable>Audition Records (codec)SUCCESS>Editing-clean up by cutting out all unneeded audioSUCCESS>Mark cue and label my songs using range markers. Audition rearranges all marks alphabetically, but remains cued and labeled where I set them in the editor window. I then select all the marks in the mark window and merge them. Merging reveals the time of each song.(I discovered that it is necessary to place an ending mark after the last song or when the merge is initiated you lose the last song)SUCCESS.>Then in file select export-audio within range markers(see photo for my selections)individual song files to desktop SUCCESS>take all files and open in iTunes. iTunes produces individual album files named by songs. This produced 8 files in iTunes.UNSUCCESSFUL

Yes, These files within iTunes can be adjusted so to produce a single album, but this is cumbersome and time consuming to say the least. I would prefer to open the Audition produced files in iTunes with one album subset with the contained songs. With my novice knowledge I'm inclined to believe that my metadata or workflow is incorrect in Audition.

To reiterate - How to produce files for iTunes from Audition that produces an album with songs?

SteveG_AudioMasters_

Community Expert

I'm afraid that the concept of 'albums' does not exist in Audition, so whatever you are missing isn't Audition's fault as such - it can't be. When you batch-export files, you have to bear in mind that before it happens, these files don't exist as separate entities, therefore they can't have separate metadata, so what's exported carries its own file name extracted from the cue data, and any common metadata from the original file. Even if you export as MP3 you run into the same problem; because the files don't exist, you can't create ID3 data for them; you have to do this after the event. What you would require to achieve this would be a major rethink of how cue exporting works, and I really don't think that there would be much demand for that.

You have to bear in mind that this is fundamentally an iTunes issue, because it's only in their format that the concept of an album (in the ID3 sense) exists. This form of metadata doesn't apply to anything other than compressed distribution formats, which is why it can't work with other formats (like wav or aiff files).

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