tagging/import issues with ALAC and itunes osx 10.6.5

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here is my problem now. all my music has been converted to ALAC already, so 
when i go to tag or edit a show, the "album artist" tag information is not 
added to the tag. the most grueling problem however, is the auto add feature in 
your program. i can not get itunes to import the files properly.the albums stay 
in the "automatically add to itunes folder" and never leaves!  im not sure how 
the auto folder works in itunes; does it put the songs back into the original 
folder the songs came from? i notice that when i go into the folder, songs are 
listed as 01,02,03 ect... but the files in the original folder stay the same. 
so the program is definably making a copy of the original with the right tags, 
but not moving them back to the original folder... do i make sense??? sorry for 
the elongated description of the problem... is there a way to just edit the 
tags? no copying necessary?? i find it just as easy to have itunes rescan my 
folder to find new or altered music... however maybe im just doing something 
wrong....

Original issue reported on code.google.com by andrew0...@gmail.com on 15 Nov 2010 at 4:49

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BootTunes won't make any changes to the original files.  If the show is in ALAC 
already, the files will be copied and the metadata applied to the copies only.  
The original is left untouched for the user to do with as they please.

If iTunes is open, it should import anything in to "Automatically Add to 
iTunes" folder to your library and then remove it from that folder.  The files 
will be moved to whatever folder is configured in iTunes as your media folder 
(due to an iTunes bug, they'll go in the "Music/Compilations" subfolder instead 
of a folder named after the artist).  I don't know any reason offhand why this 
wouldn't be working.

My suggestion would be to delete the originals once you've confirmed that the 
show has been successfully imported.  You would have to do the same thing 
anyway with FLAC or SHN files if you didn't want two copies of the same music 
on your drive.

Original comment by zpchavez on 16 Nov 2010 at 4:19

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Nevermind about that supposed bug in iTunes.  Turns out it isn't iTunes's 
fault.  I found where the compilation setting is set in the ALAC file, and I've 
already fixed the problem in the source code.  In the next version, shows will 
be imported into artist folders properly.  In the meantime, you can manually 
uncheck the "part of a compilation" option.

Original comment by zpchavez on 16 Nov 2010 at 6:13

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Looks like you can only uncheck that option one track at a time.  Not very 
practical.

Original comment by zpchavez on 16 Nov 2010 at 6:24

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Original comment by zpchavez on 21 Nov 2010 at 5:57

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