All converted files in my iTunes library have been labelled "Explicit" by iTunes 11

[ripadeedoodah]

Re: All converted files in my iTunes library have been labelled "Explicit" by iTunes

What a nightmare. I mean, thanks very much for the info, DGS2001 and garym, but what a nightmare. My music library, although obviously ripped in Windows, is contained on a Mac (two Macs in fact) so if I'm going to use R14.4 to edit the tags on every file, it means I'll have to move the entire library back to Windows, and then learn how to edit it, and then actually carry out the editing, no doubt making many mistakes along the way and having to fix them, and then move the whole library back to the one Mac again and see if there's a way of copying it to the other Mac. It's going to take hours of work - I know it wouldn't for you guys but I'm just an ordinary Joe who likes listening to music and I've no idea how to edit tags or any of this stuff. I already spent well over an hour on the phone to Apple Support trying (unsuccessfully) to get this problem fixed before realising dBpoweramp was the culprit. And before you say, "Why not just live with the explicit ratings?", apart from anything else we have parental controls in the family home so the iTunes library is currently unusable.

I'm amazed there isn't a long thread on this topic - surely many people must be affected, and lots of them worse than me? (My library isn't that big.) Maybe they just haven't yet realised it's a dBpoweramp issue.

Anyway, if you've any other suggestions that could make things easier I would love to hear them.

[garym]

Re: All converted files in my iTunes library have been labelled "Explicit" by iTunes

I saw that thread and that's why I posted. It's not a fix - what it seems to suggest is that, in order to get rid of the explicit ratings which are now on every single song (eg Frosty The Snowman) and can't be removed, I have to trash my entire music library and re-rip it from scratch using the new beta version.

I appreciate your kindness in replying but - are you serious?

Am I serious? Huh? And that thread does not indicate that you have to rerip at all. anyhow, stuff answered below now with more info.

[garym]

Re: All converted files in my iTunes library have been labelled "Explicit" by iTunes

Itunes will not update the display until a track is selected then the explicit label will vanish.

or you can delete the itunes music library, then re-add the directory as library and this takes care of all the songs at once. I can't seem to locate it, but I've seen posts here (or elsewhere) regarding a script one can run against their itunes library, that basically will automatically "select itunes files automatically and "touch" them in a way that will cause itunes to reread their metadata automatically and thus make everything show up properly in itunes (of course you still need to do the dbpa edit mentioned above).

[dgs2001]

Re: All converted files in my iTunes library have been labelled "Explicit" by iTunes

Theres no need to rerip them just use the tag editor from the beta version.

select a sensible amount of albums and right click > Edit ID-Tags

Then look for the Content Rating tag and change it to 0

** NOTE **
Itunes will not update the display until a track is selected then the explicit label will vanish.

Duncan

[ripadeedoodah]

Re: All converted files in my iTunes library have been labelled "Explicit" by iTunes

I saw that thread and that's why I posted. It's not a fix - what it seems to suggest is that, in order to get rid of the explicit ratings which are now on every single song (eg Frosty The Snowman) and can't be removed, I have to trash my entire music library and re-rip it from scratch using the new beta version.

I appreciate your kindness in replying but - are you serious?

[garym]

Re: All converted files in my iTunes library have been labelled "Explicit" by iTunes

All the songs in nearly all the albums in my iTunes library have been labelled "explicit" since I downloaded the iTunes 11 update, even though I don't have any explicit material in my library. There's no way of removing this tag that I've yet been able to discover. All the albums that have this tag are albums I converted using dBpoweramp. Is this a known issue and is there a way of fixing it? Please don't tell me I have to re-rip my entire library!

Known problem fix here.

http://forum.dbpoweramp.com/showthread.php?27799-classical-music-gets-explicit-tag-added-when-converting&p=127951&highlight=Explicit+tag*post127951

[ripadeedoodah]

All the songs in nearly all the albums in my iTunes library have been labelled "explicit" since I downloaded the iTunes 11 update, even though I don't have any explicit material in my library. There's no way of removing this tag that I've yet been able to discover. All the albums that have this tag are albums I converted using dBpoweramp. Is this a known issue and is there a way of fixing it? Please don't tell me I have to re-rip my entire library!