How can I keep Music out of "Compilations" & under the appropriate artist?

iTunes gets the information on the CD from an online database, quite often this will identify greatest hits packages or single artist best of collections as compilations. You can change the compilation marker and then the songs will go into the artist folder. Click on the first song in an album that you want to change, hold down the shift key and click on the last song to highlight everything in between. Right click on the selection and choose Get Info. You'll get a message asking if you want to edit multiple items, say yes. In the box that opens go to the Options tab and change "part of a compilation" to no and choose OK.

My guess is that maybe the single artist album has a track or two with someone else on it, as well. iTunes then automatically assumes it is a compilation. I think the only way to get around your problem is to bring up the album in iTunes, select all the songs, bring up the Get Info box, and uncheck the Part of Compilation box in the lower right corner. Then click Next and do the same for all the songs in the album. Sounds like a lot of work, but should take you less than a minute for an album.

iTunes doesn't "assume" anything. Someone somewhere uploaded the album info to the CDDB database. I have seen many "Best Of" albums listed as Compilations.

You can select all songs on the album and change the entire album at once.

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I don't know about any databases, but I have a lot of obscure cds that are not in any database, and I have to type in all the song titles and artist names. If there is even one track with an additional artist on it, it gets thrown into the compilation category.

You can make many changes at once by selecting all songs in an album, but I do not see a way to "un-compilate" an album without doing it song by song. If there is a way to do so, I would like to know it.

*I do not see a way to "un-compilate" an album without doing it song by song. If there is a way to do so, I would like to know it.*

You could have read my post which is above yours in answer to the OPs question. Click on the first song in an album that you want to change, hold down the shift key and click on the last song to highlight everything in between. Right click on the selection and choose Get Info. You'll get a message asking if you want to edit multiple items, say yes. In the box that opens go to the Options tab and change "part of a compilation" to no and choose OK. The marker will be changed for all the songs at once.

*I don't know about any databases, but I have a lot of obscure cds that are not in any database, and I have to type in all the song titles and artist names.*

When you first insert a CD iTunes connects to the internet and goes to the Gracenote CDDB database and looks for your CD, and uses that info to fill in the artist and track names. If you insert a CD that has not been entered into the Gracenote CDDB database you get blanks. After you fill in all the information correctly, you can upload that info so others can get it. With the CD selected, choose Advanced/Submit CD Track Names.

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