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I have transferred music direct from my PC to the ipad (new one). Four of the five albums from The Moody B;lues have transferred to one album, but the other album appears as 20 individual albums. How can I put these 20 tracks into the same album as the rest. I don't use iTunes.
iPad 2, iOS 9
Apple intend for you to use iTunes or Music/Finder to transfer content to Apple devices. Consistent metadata following the advice I gave above is still required, but the exact behaviour on the device when using third party transfer software may be unpredictable.
See also the section on multiple tags in Repair security permissions for iTunes for Windows - Apple Community, which could potentially be a factor.
tt2
Apple intend for you to use iTunes or Music/Finder to transfer content to Apple devices. Consistent metadata following the advice I gave above is still required, but the exact behaviour on the device when using third party transfer software may be unpredictable.
See also the section on multiple tags in Repair security permissions for iTunes for Windows - Apple Community, which could potentially be a factor.
tt2
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:
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.
tt2
Thanks, but as I said in my post, I don't use iTunes (or music),. these tracks were transferred direct from my windows PC using EaseUSMobilreMover. All tracks are MP3's and come from 5 folders, each labelled Time Traveller (Disc X).
Combining tracks into one album.
