How to create a "virtual' album using pointers

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How to create a "virtual' album using pointers

Suppose I've imported a CD into iTunes. Later, I get the artist's "Greatest Hits" CD with some of the same songs. Rather than waste space in iTunes and on the iPod, I'd like to:
1) Exclude the duplicates when importing the "Greatest Hits" CD;
2) "Add" the excluded songs to the "Greatest Hits" (in iTunes) using pointers to the songs already imported from the first CD.

I have an album that is not available on CD and this would let me create a "virtual" version of it - as well as allowing me to listen to "Greatest Hits 1", "... 2" or "... 3".

SuperMicro, Windows XP

Posted on Dec 6, 2008 6:41 PM

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Zevoneer

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Dec 7, 2008 12:40 AM in response to pbyhistorian

iTunes does support linking a song to multiple albums. Unfortunately (at least for now) if a song is on more than one Album/CD title then you have to import a file from each one that has that album title. If this is something you'd like to see introduced in some future version of iTunes you can send feedback/feature requests directly to Apple at this link: Apple Product Feedback

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Dec 9, 2008 12:21 AM in response to Zevoneer

I assume I could use "Get Info" to re-configure one of the songs imported from CD #1 as being from CD #2. I'm guessing this would make iTunes think both CDs have been imported (at least partially).

Then, I could use pointers to add more songs to CD #2 (and use a pointer to add the song that seeded CD #2 back to CD #1). The question is: how exactly do I create a pointer?

Thanks.

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pbyhistorian Author

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Dec 9, 2008 12:54 AM in response to Zevoneer

Oh, did you mean to say "...does NOT..."? You said that in an earlier post.

But if iTunes has been improved since then (and you really meant "...does..."), then will my scheme above work?

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Zevoneer

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Dec 9, 2008 11:22 AM in response to pbyhistorian

Sorry, you are correct, I meant to type "doesn't" or "does not" if you prefer. So to reiterate, iTunes does not have the facility to link a single track to multiple albums. Get Info only has a single album name field so you have to have a copy of the song for each album that it is featured in.

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