How to move a song to different album ?

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How to move a song to different album ?

This is a rookie question. 😉

I imported a CD that my wife burned into iTunes. All OK so far. FWIW: iTunes 9.1 on a 10.6.3 Mac.

But now while trying to learn iTunes and iPod nano features I somehow have moved one track and created a new album. Both albums are titled "unknown artist".

How do I move the song back from this "album" to its original location with the rest of this CD?

And also, I have a number of "albums" that are just one song. They are short voice recordings copied onto Mac from telephone. I'd like to put them into one "album" titled family voices. Possible? I think this is the same problem as the first... can't figure out how to move a song from one album to another.

Thanks for any tips for this beginner... old beginner.

MacBook Pro (mid 2009), Mac OS X (10.6.3), iPhone 3G, iPod nano (3rd gen)

Posted on Apr 18, 2010 4:10 PM

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Answer 1

Apr 18, 2010 5:04 PM in response to Norm Harris

Select the track(s) in question and Get Info (Command + i). Under the Info tab in that window, make sure all of the tracks in a given album have the same information in the fields for album name, artist and album artist.

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Norm Harris Author

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Apr 18, 2010 7:06 PM in response to Diane Wordsmith

The only field in the "Info" tab filled in is the "Name" field and on the one that got moved it is "Track 01" while the others are "Track 02" up to "Track 20".

On the Summary tab, the only difference is that the one that was moved ends in "....iTunes Music:Unknown Artist:Unknown Album:02Track 01.m4a" whereas the others are ".....Unknown Album:02......"

So I'm still stuck.

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Answer 3

Apr 18, 2010 7:13 PM in response to Norm Harris

If there is no album or artist name in those fields, you need to make one up. Call it whatever you like for album and you can put "various artists" or something in the artist field. As long as that info matches, then they will group together.

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Norm Harris Author

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Apr 18, 2010 7:42 PM in response to Diane Wordsmith

Thanks very much. Victory. 🙂 Maybe someday I'll remember how I got the one separated. 😉

Now...... any recommendations on how best to approach my second question/issue in the post? Do I follow the same approach? And do I need both Artist and Album or just one?

Appreciate.

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Answer 5

Apr 18, 2010 7:48 PM in response to Norm Harris

posts got crossed in transit....

Message was edited by: Diane Wordsmith

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Answer 6

Apr 18, 2010 7:47 PM in response to Norm Harris

I think the same approach should work for that. Just make sure they have the same info for album and artist and they should group together.

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Norm Harris Author

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Apr 18, 2010 8:46 PM in response to Diane Wordsmith

Thanks very much. Looks to work.

Appreciate the help.

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