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tracks in same album split into different "albums"

currently, I have a couple of different individual albums split into different albums.

examples: one track of Desertshore by Nico (which has only one disc) "belongs" to a different album, according to iTunes. (it also has a slightly different automatically retrieved album cover.) similarly, +The Madcap Laughs+ (which also has just one disc) by Syd Barrett has gotten split up into two albums. (again, with slightly different album covers.) other albums have the same problem.

I have tried going to Get Data and methodically making sure that the data matches and it still doesn't work. I have tried deleting all the info about individual tracks and still iTunes remembers the metadata. maddening! what can I do about this?

note that I have tried using iTunes 10's feature where you can edit all information in an album at once. a good feature, but it can't merge albums. manually dragging and dropping in and out of folders also does help, of course.

2.4 GHZ MacBook, Mac OS X (10.6.4), using iTunes 10

Posted on Sep 2, 2010 4:13 PM

143 replies

Nov 11, 2016 5:49 PM in response to bsteed

@bsteed - your solution worked for my issue. Thank you.

Nov 23, 2016 4:47 PM in response to Ria777

This is annoying but there is a simple fix. Click on the track, open up the window by clicking on the three dots ... and choose Get Info. Check the Album Title is ok, then tick the box next to compilation. Then click OK. Work though all the individual tracks following the same process and you will find the tyracks have merged. Hope it works for you. P.S I'm on v.12 something.

Chris CA

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Nov 23, 2016 7:23 PM in response to harveyfromlondon

harveyfromlondon wrote:

This is annoying but there is a simple fix. Click on the track, open up the window by clicking on the three dots ... and choose Get Info. Check the Album Title is ok, then tick the box next to compilation.

but if it’sNOT a compilation, you don’t want to do that.

Nov 23, 2016 11:32 PM in response to harveyfromlondon

Thank you, is that the same for a Windows laptop.

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Dec 6, 2016 12:30 PM in response to turingtest2

I'm going to try this. Also, how do I just make my own comment on this thread? I don't want to reply to one specific person. I understand that turning the album into a compilation could work, but it's not a compilation, so I don't want it filed in Compilations. It's No Doubt - Rock Steady. There are two tracks with featured artists. I deleted all of that information, and made sure everything is the same in each track (besides the song title). I un-checked the compilation, because again, it's not a compilation, but it imported itself that way. Can I just drag the tracks into the album I want them in? Now it appears I have 3 separate artists labeled as "No Doubt." So stupid...

gogu13

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Jan 5, 2017 1:01 PM in response to bsteed

it worked perfectly. i still suspect that the problem is about the album artist - it should be only one (I usually type MISC since it's not displayed)

Maszek

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Apr 20, 2017 11:27 AM in response to MAP35

I can't believe we're even having this discussion, but thanks for the suggestion.

Adsy1983

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Jun 30, 2017 4:00 AM in response to simon.goodwin

Thanks alot, option 3 that you suggested worked a treat for me 🙂

tracks in same album split into different "albums"