¿Why does it create two albums with the same name???

Hello CMalan and welcome to Apple Support Communities. It appears you have a question about how the Music app handles album titles.

When an album that you import splits into two albums, the reason is generally that there is something inconsistent in the metadata associated with the album.

Change song and CD information in Music on Mac

Once you've accessed the Info window, you can see if the metadata is consistent between songs. The most common issue is that a track with a guest will be listed with both the artist and the guest in the artist field. You can easily fix this by adding just the name of the main artist in the Album Artist field and leave the name of the artist and the guest in the Artist field. Once you've fixed the metadata, you may need to relaunch the Music app in order for all the tracks to join up together in a single album again.

Cheers.

If iTunes or Music show multiple instances of an artist or an album then what generally works is to select all related tracks and use Song Info to add say a trailing X to each of the fields that the tracks should have in common:

• For an album; Album, Album Artist, and Artist (if artist is the same for all tracks) *
• For an artist; Album Artist (and Artist unless there are guest/featured artists listed which should not be changed)

Apply the change which merges things together, then remove the excess characters. Occasionally it may help to close and reopen the application between the two renaming operations. Part of a compilation should also be set consistently.

* If tracks are to be synced to a non-iOS device there should be a common Artist and/or the album should be set as a Compilation.

Use the songs view and display the fields Album, Sort Album, Album Artist, Sort Album Artist, Artist and Sort Artist side by side so you see whether or not it is appropriate to edit Artist and if sort values could be causing any further problems. See Grouping tracks into albums for more help if required.

One further tip for really stubborn duplicates. At one point I had three lots of Various Artists in the artists view of my library that wouldn't respond to the usual trailing X treatment. What I found worked was to add the trailing X to start with, but then with each group that the application wanted to keep separate start typing a value and use the autocomplete from say Var... to Various Artists. Picking from the autocomplete lists seemed to work when pasting/editing the whole value didn't.

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