## Export to iTunes

This function allows you to export information from the current selected files to iTunes. Note the operation only works on selected files which are linked to iTunes. When Use defaults is checked, the values which get exported depend on the fields selected in the Preferences General panel - iTunes Linked setting.

The Clear Album Rating option will remove a track's associated album's Album Rating. This will ensure that ratings being exported are correctly set in iTunes.

Classical metadata refers to the fields: Work Name, Movement Name, Movement Number and Movement Count. The proper understanding of what has to be done to properly synchronize classical and grouping metadata can be found in iTunes, Classical Metadata and the Grouping Field.

Depending on your Preferences - iTunes settings, some metadata such as ratings, play counts, etc. may automatically be exported to iTunes by the Save function.

iTunes 12.5 introduced the ability to manually set the Media Kind which is associated with Yate's Media Type field. The handling of this field in conjunction with iTunes is problematic as iTunes only reads the metadata in MPEG-4 files and only when the files are first added. iTunes never reads or writes the low level data in the audio file other than when it is first added. Yate has the ability to tell iTunes to update the Media Kind field to a specific value. iTunes will refuse to process some settings. For example you cannot change the media kind of a video file to be Music. When the Media Kind option is selected in this statement, Yate will attempt to force the following media types: Audiobook, Alert Tone, Booklet, Home Video, iTunesU, Movie, Music, Music Video, Podcast, Ringtone, TV Show, and Voice Memo.