[mac4theblind] Re: Location of voice memo files when converted to MP3's
- From: Daniel McGee <venables134@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 17:04:29 +0100
thanks. I imported the file into iTunes but when I opened up the get info
dialog box to review the tagging for it, nothing was filled in.
Just so yu know it created a folder in my iTunes media> music called unknown
artist. So going back a level in the finder and opening the Voice Memos folder
it wasn't placed there.
Thanks for baring with me david! lol
Daniel
On 15 Oct 2013, at 23:25, David Hilbert Poehlman <poehlman1@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> voice memo needs to be the artist as far as I can tell.
> Here's an m4a I created for you to look at:
> <20131015 165851.m4a>
> On Oct 15, 2013, at 4:14 PM, Daniel McGee <venables134@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi David, nice idea but it still didn't work.
>
> This is what I did so please tell me if I've missed something.
>
> Hooked my iPhone up via USB iTunes opened.
> Found the playlist radio button. Checked it. Voice memos in music table is
> the very last item at the end of the list.
> Then found the table where the recordings were held.
> Here comes the tagging part.
>
> There were four items/recordings this is for my braille music lesson.
> Highlighted them all opened the get info dialog CMD I
> Tagged the following edit boxes note: didn't check the check boxes afterwards
> that were present before or after the edit fields.
> All done in the info tab
> Boxes I filled in were:
> Artist
> Crotchets and Minims
> Album Artist
> Crotchets and Minims
> Album was filled in with Voice memos (possibility that this check box wasn't
> checked?( now wondering if checked this would of changed the default location.
> proceeding:
> Genre combo box wasn't checked. again, wondering if check this would of
> changed location didn't change the status because I assumed that because it
> was already check the files would go in the correct place.
> Hit the ok button.
> Finally before converting the files, I wrote in the track numbers because I
> only had four recordings so I did this individually for each file.
> Then highlighted all with CMD A VO context menu moved down to convert to MP3.
> What happened?
> After all that, I got a newly created folder called Crotchets and Minims in
> my music fouldor. What on earth am I doing wrong?
> I'm not getting it. :(
>
> On 14 Oct 2013, at 23:48, David Hilbert Poehlman <poehlman1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> just tag the voice memos before you convert them.
>>
>> On Oct 14, 2013, at 6:43 PM, Daniel McGee <venables134@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Using IOS 6.4 once I've recorded a voice memo and converted it from M4A to
>> MP3 in iTunes. The default location changes on my Mac. The M4A files can be
>> found in the following location.
>> Home directory, music, itunes, iTunes media and finally voice memos where
>> the M4A files are stored.
>> However, once I've converted them to MP3 for some strange reason it creates
>> a folder called Dan's iPhone, voice memos where upon they are now MP3's
>> This is created in the previous location but instead of going into the
>> default voice memos folder. It is placed in my music folder where the name
>> is and a sub folder is called Voice Memos this is where the MP3 versions get
>> placed.
>>
>> Anyone know why this behaves as it does? I would like them just to go into
>> the default voice memos folder instead of having to go into something I
>> didn't ask iTunes to create.
>>
>> This might be a somewhat trivial issue to most but I'd like to know if
>> anyone does know, why iTunes acts in this behaviour?
>>
>> Thanks very much. I tried to make as brief as I could and hope it is not
>> overly confusing for you all to digest.
>>
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