So, I'm wanting to convert all my cd's to MP3.

I put in the Lovesexy CD into my laptop and iTunes asked me to pick between 5 different album titles that all said "Prince - Lovesexy"

I couldn't tell which I wanted to I clicked on the bottom one on the list.

Now, my itunes says the CD has only 1 track "I Know" that is 45:03 long.

How the funk am I supposed to split this up into 9 tracks now?

Is there a way to clear my itunes history so that I can try picking one of the other "Prince - Lovesexy" choices to see if they are better?

why dont you just download it instead?

edit: the discography torrent that pops up on google has a 45minute single track also, but i was able to find another seperated one somewhere else

[Edited 11/7/11 0:06am]

been googling for a bit now and I guess this is something Prince did on purpose.

I've ripped the CD to one giant WAV file and I'm going to use Peak Pro to split it up when I get a chance.

In one of the books I read about Prince it said the Prince did this on purpose so that people couldn't just skip each track to the their favourites. They would have to listen to the entire album. WB weren't happy about it.

I thought Prince wouldn't put his music on itunes? or is that just his more recent stuff which he has control over?

to get the full lovesexy experience u need to listen to it from start to finish, chopping it up is sacrilegious imho.

robertgeorgeakabob said:

to get the full lovesexy experience u need to listen to it from start to finish, chopping it up is sacrilegious imho.

i usually do listen to it from start to finish, but i still have the songs in separated form just incase

Wow you have an original 1 track CD!

If you still want to avoid listening to the album as Prince intended, then you cna get the import CD which is tracked.

Or just track the untracked CD audio in an audio editor.

out of curiousity, would you people be against pirating a CD if you already own a physical copy?

uuhson said:

out of curiousity, would you people be against pirating a CD if you already own a physical copy?

You are not allowed to pirate anything at any times.
You must pay the license fee to obtain another copy in whatever format.

That is the way they see it.

i bought a tracked version for under a fiver, as long as it's 'new' it will be a tracked version, i think they have been since the mid to late 90's.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/L...amp;sr=1-1

http://www.play.com/Music...fer=search

[Edited 11/7/11 5:40am]

Hee hee... I remember when this album first came out, and I bought it on cassette. There was a 'warning' label on the card that said "songs are in a continuous sequence". I was like, "well duh."

New copies of the CD have been tracked in Europe/UK since at least the mid-90s.

If you want to do it yourself, it's as simple as downloading any free audio editing software, ripping the CD and chopping up the wav file at the right points before converting them to the desired format. Should take about 10 minutes if that.

uuhson said:

out of curiousity, would you people be against pirating a CD if you already own a physical copy?

That's up to you personally. I think you'd have to be cracked in the head to be 'morally' against such a thing. I've downloaded loads of movies and CDs I own because it was quicker to do so than find the fucking disc itself!