multiple disc albums

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multiple disc albums

I frequently load operas into my opera playlist. Most operas contain 2 or 3 cd's. When I select an opera to play on the ipod, only the first cd plays, not the whole group in order. When the first cd is finished, I have to then select the 2nd disc, then repeat for the 3rd.
How do I link these discs together when I import them from cd's so all 3 will play as a group? I would prefer to not create a playlist for each opera.
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dell, Windows XP Pro

Posted on Nov 25, 2007 5:13 PM

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Answer 1

Nov 26, 2007 12:51 PM in response to beeg122

Use the music browser and select through genre, artist to ultimately only have the two or three discs filter in to to be available. Make sure you have the disc number Select the track exposed on your list. Select all the tracks for the first disc and perform a get info and make certain the disc is tagged disc 1 of 3 or whatever the number of discs may be. Do this for each disc (e.g. 2 or 3 and 3 of 3). Then select all the tracks and make the album name the same. Then all three discs will play when you play the album. Be sure to sort by disc and by default the sub sort within the disc will be by track number.

David

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Answer 2

Dec 11, 2007 11:59 PM in response to DWLevesque

Whilst I find this works the vast majority of the time, about 1 in 5 albums do not - I get two entries in iTunes with the same album name, rather than one single large entry. Is there something in the background that may be causing a problem?

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Answer 3

Jan 9, 2008 12:54 AM in response to Ubergeeksov

Hi,
I have just noticed the same problem - sorry I haven't worked out a fix but just wanted you to know that you weren't alone! I loaded the beatles "red album" of singles into my library then attempted to save them all as one album - I ended up with two albums with identical names. I have checked every track to ensure that the tags are correct (including the "disc n of n" property). The same has happened to the "blue album" as well!

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Answer 4

Locust76

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Jan 9, 2008 1:21 AM in response to Ubergeeksov

"Album Artist" and "Genre" need to be the same across all discs of a multi-disc album, and probably other info as well. I know that the normal "Artist" tag field can vary (for soundtracks and compilations). Also be sure that the text in the "Album" field is the same across all discs

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Answer 5

Jan 10, 2008 12:37 AM in response to Locust76

Thanks for the response - however I did check that all the obvious attributes were identical. I have since found a fix though. Select all the tracks that you want on the album and using right click 'get info' change the album artist for all the tracks to a dummy name. This did the trick for my beatles albums - I was then able to change the album artist back to 'The Beatles' without the album fragmenting again. There is obviously some sort of bug here and I have reported it to Apple but this workaround works for me.

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