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Change character case of iTunes' ID tags Apps
In some MP3s I have, the ID tags were in all upper case and I wanted to change them so just the first letter was. I noticed that iTunes (7 at least) would not let me change case -- it would complete the word in the case as it already was, and not let me change it. THis was driving nuts, but I did figure out a workaround.

You can paste from the clipboard to change the case, and it will accept it that way. So just type it as you want, copy it, then paste it. Hope this helps.

[robg adds: I thought we had published something like this earlier, but I can't find it...]
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Change character case of iTunes' ID tags
Authored by: zpjet on Nov 27, '06 08:31:19AM
Dude, go get yourself a copy of WordService.service and put it in your ~/Library/Services folder. Then select the text you want to convert and press Command-Shift-C for initial caps of words. Very usable timesaver, usually first freeware i install onto a new mac! It can do much much more, eg reformatting the quoted text copied from e-mail, inserting date and time and it provides statistic, too!

http://www.devon-technologies.com/files/WordService.tgz

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Change character case of iTunes' ID tags
Authored by: sandert on Jul 27, '13 11:51:18PM

That would be

https://s3.amazonaws.com/DTWebsiteSupport/download/freeware/wordservice/2.8/WordService.zip

by now, coming from http://www.devontechnologies.com/products/freeware.html

Thanks for sharing this!



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Change character case of iTunes' ID tags
Authored by: DigiH on Nov 27, '06 08:49:14AM
Or get one of the brilliant iTunes AppleScripts from Doug.

For your case:

Track Names To Word Caps

http://www.dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=tracknamestowordcaps

Hope this helps.

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Change character case of iTunes' ID tags
Authored by: sjmills on Nov 27, '06 10:29:08AM
Actually, that's not a very good script because it incorrectly capitalizes short prepositions and articles and such. There is a better one on that site that does it right.

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Change character case of iTunes' ID tags
Authored by: sjmills on Nov 27, '06 10:26:31AM
All you have to do is to put an extra character at the beginning or end to prevent auto-complete from being smart. For example if I want to correct the case of "Women And Children First", I'd type "xWomen and Children First", then hit up-arrow to move the caret to the beginning, and hit forward-delete. I usually use a script I wrote to do this. It's smart enough to not capitalize short prepositions, articles, etc. It does have problems if there are some weird things in the middle of the name, like fragments inside [] or {} or a hyphen. I've just uploaded it to my iDisk Public folder (sjmills) in "Scripts/Fix Track Name Case".

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Change character case of iTunes' ID tags
Authored by: barefootguru on Nov 27, '06 10:58:39AM
I've definitely seen this tip before too, but maybe it was MacInTouch

http://www.macintouch.com/readerreports/itunes5/topic3504.html

Cheers

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