Itunes Album Sorting Problem

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Itunes Album Sorting Problem

I have an album in my itunes library that when viewed in grid or cover flow shows up as two separate albums with the same artwork. One song is under one album and the rest are listed under the other. This has happened to me before but its usually something minuscule like an extra space at the end of the album name or its spelled differently, etc. But I cannot find any obvious difference between the two. The artwork is the same and the info and sorting tabs are consistent between songs. I have a feeling its something completely obvious that i just keep overlooking. Can I get a list of reasons why this problem would occur and where i should look to correct it?

Windows XP, Latest version of itunes

Posted on Jun 28, 2010 8:59 PM

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Answer 1

Jun 28, 2010 10:00 PM in response to bifoobler

If you select both albums that you're trying to merge into one, right click and select "Get Info". Then edit the "Artist", "Album Artist", and "Album" fields so they're absolutely the same. This should hopefully fix it

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Jun 28, 2010 10:26 PM in response to Sanbourne

Sanbourne wrote:
If you select both albums that you're trying to merge into one, right click and select "Get Info". Then edit the "Artist", "Album Artist", and "Album" fields so they're absolutely the same. This should hopefully fix it

Yeah to go off of that, I might be hallucinating, but I think once I could have SWORN everything was the same too. Even when highlighting both items, the info in the fields showed (which says that both items fields are indeed the same), but just for the HECK of it I deleted all of the related fields, and entered them again and hit apply and I think it solved the problem. Worth a shot.

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