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Q: Why is iTunes putting same artist multiple times?

I recently added a song to iTunes (from soundcloud) and edited the metadata to add the artist name. It showed up as a separate tab in iTunes even though it was the same name artist? Then I removed the name from all songs and renamed them the same artist, now all the songs are in separate tabs?Screen Shot 2016-01-12 at 3.42.00 PM.png

iMac, OS X El Capitan (10.11.2), iTunes 12.3.2.35

Posted on Jan 12, 2016 12:47 PM

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Q: Why is iTunes putting same artist multiple times?

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  • by ChooseWell,

    ChooseWell ChooseWell Jan 17, 2016 2:44 AM in response to welshcatholic
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    Jan 17, 2016 2:44 AM in response to welshcatholic

    I got most of my album art down from the iTunes store, but there are several that aren't there. Do you have any recommendations as to how I could get the last few albums' album art?

     

    Thanks all for your comments and suggestions on this thread. Not sure where Apple is in all of this... very disappointed that they have declined to comment on this thread AT ALL yet. Very disappointed!!

     

    Apple support team WHERE ARE YOU?

  • by welshcatholic,

    welshcatholic welshcatholic Jan 17, 2016 6:00 AM in response to ChooseWell
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    Jan 17, 2016 6:00 AM in response to ChooseWell

    Make sure you select Album art and try a different country too.

     

    https://bendodson.com/projects/itunes-artwork-finder/index.html

     

    and also

     

    http://www.josepvinaixa.com/blog/

  • by cheeminjun,

    cheeminjun cheeminjun Jan 31, 2016 2:02 AM in response to Michaelrulesify
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    Jan 31, 2016 2:02 AM in response to Michaelrulesify

    what works for me:

    1. select all affected tracks and give them new artist and album artist names (same, random gibberish. eg "abc")

    2. now they will all be under the same group again. select them all again and rename back to original artist.

  • by lstraka,

    lstraka lstraka Mar 6, 2016 11:36 AM in response to welshcatholic
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    Mar 6, 2016 11:36 AM in response to welshcatholic

    Thank you so much! NOTHING was working for me, and this did.

     

    If anyone is struggling with the same issue and nothing is working, try this! Save the unruly songs to your desktop, delete them from iTunes completely, then re-add them to iTunes.

  • by mcy03970,

    mcy03970 mcy03970 Jun 2, 2016 10:56 AM in response to ChooseWell
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    Jun 2, 2016 10:56 AM in response to ChooseWell

    I've tried all of these and nothing seems to work. It's so annoying. Just when I thought I had my iTunes library "fixed" another bug comes along.

  • by mcy03970,

    mcy03970 mcy03970 Jun 2, 2016 11:16 AM in response to Michaelrulesify
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    Jun 2, 2016 11:16 AM in response to Michaelrulesify

    I just fixed my issue!!! FINALY! Here is what worked for me:

     

    1) I created a new playlist for the artist and added all of the artist's songs to the new playlist.

    2) Once the songs were in the new playlist, I changed the artist name for ALL songs to "xx" and in essence "deleted" of the artist's name in iTunes.

    3) I confirmed the artist no longer existed under the Artist tab on the left side of iTunes.

    4) I selected all of the songs in the new playlist and changed the artist name back to what it was originally for all songs.

     

    Now the songs are all under one artist entry versus 3-4 separate artist entries.

  • by welshcatholic,

    welshcatholic welshcatholic Jun 2, 2016 11:23 AM in response to mcy03970
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    Jun 2, 2016 11:23 AM in response to mcy03970

    It did it with me earlier again... I sorted it by

    1. Changing the artist and album artist to XXXX

    2. I then closed down iTunes Quit iTunes

    3. Open iTunes

    4. Change the artist to the original, by copying it from the proper artist

    Screen Shot 2016-06-02 at 19.19.47.png

    5. Close iTunes after you have done all those steps

    6. If the tracks still don't merge, drag the rouge tracks to the desktop and then delete them from iTunes.

    7. Close and open iTunes and then go to the artist and add the tracks  from the desktop to the iTunes library.

    8. Pain in the neck and long winded, but it worked for me....

  • by welshcatholic,

    welshcatholic welshcatholic Jun 2, 2016 11:25 AM in response to mcy03970
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    Jun 2, 2016 11:25 AM in response to mcy03970

    Glad you sorted it... Thought the update had fixed it - sadly not, but hey, keeps it interesting

  • by PRK80,

    PRK80 PRK80 Jun 3, 2016 5:16 AM in response to ChooseWell
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    Jun 3, 2016 5:16 AM in response to ChooseWell

    Whenever you are editing meta data, newly entered media started acting weird

     

    This helped me

    1. Make sure that all Artist name is same in all songs (by editing meta date through get info option)

    2. Make sure that All Albums under that artist is same without any spelling differences (by editing meta date through get info option)

    3. If you using Mac, go to media location

     

    Screen Shot 2016-06-03 at 3.01.29 PM.png

    4. It should show all albums of single Artist in single folder (If not please edit meta data again for mismatching information)

    5. Copy the folder and save in different location (preferably desktop)

    6. Now open iTunes

    7. Delete all wrong entries (move them to trash, its must to move to trash otherwise it will not work)

     

    Screen Shot 2016-06-03 at 3.07.06 PM.png

     

    8. Now in the iTunes, you do not see that particular artist (and his albums)

    9. Now add the media again into iTunes (this will fix the issue)

     

    Lengthy process but still worked for me, we need to repeat same procedure whenever we add new media (unless apple comes with permanent solution)

  • by Cybonacy,

    Cybonacy Cybonacy Jul 27, 2016 4:07 PM in response to Jimzgoldfinch
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    Jul 27, 2016 4:07 PM in response to Jimzgoldfinch

    This did not work for me...

  • by turingtest2,

    turingtest2 turingtest2 Jul 27, 2016 4:37 PM in response to Cybonacy
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    Jul 27, 2016 4:37 PM in response to Cybonacy

    If iTunes shows multiple instances of an artist or an album then what generally works is to select all related tracks and use Get Info to add say a trailing X to each of the fields that the tracks should have in common:

    • For an album; Album, Album Artist, and Artist (if artist is the same for all tracks) *
    • For an artist; Album Artist (and Artist unless there are guest/featured artists listed which should not be changed)

    Apply the change which merges things together, then remove the excess characters. Occasionally it may help to close and reopen iTunes between the two renaming operations. Part of a compilation should also be set consistently.

     

    * If tracks are to be synced to a non-iOS device there should be a common Artist and/or the album should be set as a Compilation.

     

     

    Use the songs view and display the fields Album, Sort Album, Album Artist, Sort Album Artist, Artist and Sort Artist side by side so you see whether or not it is appropriate to edit Artist and if sort values could be causing any further problems. See Grouping tracks into albums for more help if required.

     

     

    One further tip for really stubborn duplicates. At one point I had three lots of Various Artists in the artists view of my iTunes Match library that wouldn't respond to the usual trailing X treatment. What I found worked was to add the trailing X to start with, but then with each group that iTunes wanted to keep separate start typing a value and let iTunes autocomplete from Var... to Various Artists. Picking from the autocomplete lists seemed to work when pasting/editing the whole value didn't.

     

     

    tt2

  • by Ali Khaksar,

    Ali Khaksar Ali Khaksar Aug 16, 2016 12:26 AM in response to Michaelrulesify
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    Aug 16, 2016 12:26 AM in response to Michaelrulesify

    it didn't help me!

  • by bubu92,

    bubu92 bubu92 Aug 18, 2016 8:57 AM in response to Michaelrulesify
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    Aug 18, 2016 8:57 AM in response to Michaelrulesify

    On my side I solved this concern by doing the following.

     

    First I choose the display by Songs. Then I click the Artist column to sort it out by Artist names.

     

    Second I choose all the same artist, right click "Get Info". Delete fields Artist & Album Artist. I just keep an X letter in the  Artist field. Then apply.

     

    Third I click again "Get Info" on all my Artist named X. Fill Artist & Album Artist fields with the good info et voila!

     

    Hope it helps

  • by amayored,

    amayored amayored Aug 30, 2016 2:02 PM in response to PRK80
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    Aug 30, 2016 2:02 PM in response to PRK80

    Much simpler solution. In iTunes group select all "songs" by pressing "select" while clicking on all the album/artists songs. Now all the songs should be highlighted in blue. Next go to edit in the menu bar and select "get info". You will be asked if you want to edit the entire selection, answer yes. In "Get Info" under artist name type "aaaaaaaaa" and hit "Okay". Now in your list of songs scroll all the way up to "a" and you will find the same group of song. Now again group select all the songs and go to "get info" and type in the artists' name and hit okay.

    You should now find all the albums/artist grouped properly.

  • by Cosmic Sun,

    Cosmic Sun Cosmic Sun Sep 5, 2016 4:01 AM in response to Michaelrulesify
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    Sep 5, 2016 4:01 AM in response to Michaelrulesify

    For me was helpful to remove "Artist" and keep "Album artist" only. Which forces to automatically detect "Artist".

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