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Handling iTunes 4 Auto-fill Predictive Input Fields
Having upgraded to iTunes 4 I quickly found much to my annoyance that it had a new feature of auto-filling or predictively filling - I prefer the former term! - artist and album input fields in the ''Get info'' field.
Now, all in all you might not think this is a bad feature, but if you buy as many compact discs as I do each month (and yes, I might be one of a dieing breed!) and you use the ''Get Tracks'' CDDB/FreeDB feature in iTunes, you will soon find out that you have to put up with quirks of people's choice of grammar and spelling errors!
What’s more is that iTunes will quite happily let you end up with variations on the same band's name! The Please and THE PLEASED for one, by way of example! For sometime, I figured I was just stuck and would have to be happy with this remarkable foible on the part of Apple's Programmers. But then I realised that they are a couple of annoying and cumbersome ways around this little feature:
(1) You can start by typing the name/album of the band backwards into the respective fields in the ''Get Info'' screen.
(2) You can directly edit the information of the song in the Library/Playlist listing, so that you can simply copy a good version of the words and paste them into the right place on the listing, one by one.
Although both annoying, if you're a perfectionist like I am and want to have everything the same way and looking right, then it would seem these are the 2 ways that have currently been thought of in order to fix your woes!
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