Sorting questions; albums together within genres?

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Sorting questions; albums together within genres?

Hi!
I have some questions concerning the way iTunes sorts my Library.

I'd like it to sort the classical section on composer, instead of artist. My library is sorted on Genre primary, and perhaps it's impossible to sort only one genre on Genre-Composer-Album . If so, I'll accept that.

However, this next one should be possible in some way:

How do I get iTunes to keep tha different albums sorted together in Soundtrack genre? For instance, the Buffy Ultimate Album keeps getting mixed up with Lock Stock and Two smoking barrells album, despite that I've checked "part of a collection" and entered specific CD track numbers for every one of the tracks. I even tried entering "Buffy ultimate soundtrack" into the Grouping field. What does that one do if not keep them together?

Help please...

Posted on Sep 2, 2005 10:01 AM

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Answer 1

Nick Holmes

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Sep 2, 2005 3:19 PM in response to JonesH

The simplest way would be to make playlists. Each playlist can have different sorting parameters. That way, you could have the classical list sorted by composer and your soundtracks sorted by album title, for example.

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Answer 2

Sep 6, 2005 7:58 PM in response to JonesH

Have you tried going to the iTunes prefs and in the general tab, selecting "group compilations while browsing" ?

Not sure if I understood your situation clearly, so please forgive if I'm offbase.

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Answer 3

Oct 28, 2005 1:04 PM in response to JonesH

How do I get iTunes to keep tha different albums sorted together in Soundtrack genre?

I would really like to know the same thing!!!! I have a lot of movies and B'Way soundtracks that I would like to peruse by album title. It seems the ipod only lets me browse by song and I agree, they all get jumbled together.

I am now in the process of dragging them all into a soundtracks playlist, which is a little better because at least the songs stay in the right order. I would love to be able to drag the album title into the playlist and then go onto the next song list screen from there.

I am going to suggest it on the feedback page.
I hope someone can shed some light on what can be done about this.

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Answer 4

Sara.M.

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Oct 28, 2005 1:32 PM in response to gleefully converted

gleefully converted, have you tried the "Browse mode" in iTunes?

Edit->Show browser in any playlist or Library will allow you to see albums grouped together.

You'll also need to change the ID3 tags on your soundtrack albums to say Part of Compilation: Yes, so that they're not separated by artist.

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Answer 5

Oct 28, 2005 3:33 PM in response to Sara.M.

Yes, I have tried the browse mode in itunes. I guess I wasn't that clear in the original post. I am more looking for a way on the ipod to be able to search albums within the genre soundtracks. I don't believe such a sub-screen exists.
thanks though. I will work on going back and organizing the ipod to include certain albums as part of compilations.

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