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#HOW TO ADD ARTWORK TO ITUNES 2016 DOWNLOAD#

However, for Hyperion Records’ “ Franz Schubert: The Complete Songs”, I chose to create a single “album” with 37 discs, and a second with three discs (the set includes three CDs of music by Schubert’s friends). I chose the third option, in part because it makes sense to me to group tracks by concert, but also because they are organized that way in the CD sleeves as well.

Label each concert, with each disc set accordingly: “ – Wembley Empire Pool, London, England ” disc 1 of 4, and so on in this case, each concert appears as one “album” in iTunes.

Label each disc separately, such as “ – Wembley Empire Pool, London, England, Disc 1,” as each disc is part of a concert in this case, there are multiple “albums” in iTunes for each concert.

Label each disc with “Complete Europe ’72,” and make sure each CD has the appropriate disc number (1 of 73, and so on).

#HOW TO ADD ARTWORK TO ITUNES 2016 DOWNLOAD#

And in some cases, download versions of box sets may cost more than CDs. The Grateful Dead’s Europe ’72 set is only available on CD, as is the case with many other box sets (and in limited quantities, to boot). In addition, the files are perfectly tagged, and contain album art and texts about the works.īut downloads aren’t always an option. And you could buy them in lossless FLAC format if you prefer, so the quality would be the same as the CDs. You’d save money (in this case, it’s £100 less than the CD version), space, and-above all-time ripping the discs. For example, Hyperion Records released a 99-CD box set of all of Franz Liszt’s piano music, but the company also released a download version of the set. Let’s start by asking a pertinent question: did you really need to buy all those CDs? Not that I’m suggesting that you shouldn’t buy the music, but in some cases, you could buy downloads, already nicely compressed and tagged. Do you need CDs?Īll those CDs! 73 discs of live Grateful Dead from 1972, and a lot of work to get them into my iTunes library. Here are the steps you should consider when ripping large sets, and how you can deal with the specific problems they can present. Since I convert all my music for iTunes and iPod playback, ripping a big box set calls for certain strategies.

Recently, another one arrived: a 73-CD set of the Grateful Dead’s Europe ’72 tour all 22 concerts recorded during the tour. With all these box sets, my shelves are full. From a 37-disc set of Schubert’s lieder, to an 80-disc set of all of Glenn Gould’s recordings, to a 98-disc set of Shakespeare’s plays, to a 172-disc set of Bach’s complete works. I’ve got a lot of music in my collection, and some of it in box sets of varying sizes.