tracks in same album split into different "albums"

Hi. If people are still having trouble with this, I have an efficient solution.

All you need to do is select the whole album, go to the Get Info section, *delete* the album title and click enter so all of the tracks in that album have no album title (but the artwork will remain), then select all the tracks again and go back to the Get Info section and re-input the album title and it should all be grouped.

I just did it a few seconds ago for my Polysics discography.

Hope this helps.

Ria777's particular problem was addressed over 18 months ago.

What you need to do to fix any particular grouping issue in iTunes depends on what the root causes are for the issue at hand. There is no magic bullet of one way to fix things because there are different causes, albeit some more common than others. If you find a fix for your problem that works for you that's great, but it is worth appreciating that for others there may be other underlying triggers of their split albums, and that a fix that seems to work OK in iTunes may not actually improve matters when the album is transferred to an iPod.

The article on Grouping tracks into albums deals not just with the all the potential causes of multiple covers, but other related issues such as merging multi-disc albums into one, ensuring correct track order, keeping Greatest Hits albums separated etc.

tt2

Many thanks for this really informative article, I can now group compilation CD as one album! If only I had found it last week, I would have saved so much time.

can read this

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1468

The easiest thing so far is to select all the songs from the same album and edit the field called "album artist"

After that all the songs will be grouped into a single album. And you can still see multiple artists for an individual song.

Ria777's particular problem was addressed over 18 21 months ago. 😉

I recommend you read Grouping tracks into albums for when setting a common album artist isn't enough to get things sorted.

tt2

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1468

All solutions are found here.

1) select all files in itunes u want in same album

2)right click and select get info.

3) then under multiple item information select options tab.

4) check part of compilation and yes.

5) save changes

6) be happy and like my reply if it was useful.

😀

Hi,

If you'd care to read my post immediately before yours you would note that the original poster of this thread is probably no longer interested. If you'd followed the link to my article you might appreciate that Apple's support document isn't the solution to every user's issues, even if it has proved enough for you.

Also, please note that you should not request people "like" your replies, or mark them as helpful or solved.

tt2

Perfect.

No typo's on this track and all the group info cloned except for comments, track name, and track number. I just gave my single roque track a fictional album name and saved it, then changed it back to its correct name, actually cut and paste from the original album name inside the track, and now it has joined the album.

Obviously iTunes doesn't update data if the form thinks there is no change; one bad bit and nothng happens until you overwrite it.

Thanks for the idea; I was pulling my hair out.

I have used the "get info" solution to fix this problem in tTunes. The problem, as others have mentioned, is that a guest artist on the track causes the track to be split into a separate album with the same title. So, that fixed. However, when I transfer the album onto my ipod, the album ends up split in 2 on the ipod. Anyone have a fix for this?

thanks

Hi. 2 problems with your solution: 1. The tracks, while assembled into 1 album, are out of order. 2. They don't transfer as 1 album to an iPod. They are split up into multiple albums on the iPod.

thx

I'll say it again: Read Grouping tracks into albums. The answer will be there. 😉

For an iPod classic all artist fields on an album should be identical. Move guest artist information into the track name or comments field, or treat as a compilation.

tt2

The solution that I found for my iPhone is to use the 'get info' technique for making albums back into albums and then renaming them in the 'get info' tool so that with a number as well as the new name I can drop them into dedicated playlists. This applies in particular to double albums such as "War of the Worlds" which, with a very little initial effort now plays right through and in the right order. Don't forget though that now you need also to sync the specific playlists as well. I've had to do this for Les Mis as well.

I've been struggling with this issue in iTunes 11. I tried a number of solutions, but the one that seems to work for me is:

remoteacontrolla

You can usually fix this by selecting every song in an album, select Get Info and place a checkbox next to every box except the Title of and Track number of the song.

Of course, there may be various causes, but manually matching each field that was filled in didn't work for me, but checking all the fields that should be the same (even if they are blank or appear to be the same) grouped songs into a single album as they should be.

This makes sense to me.

I fixed my issue by selecting all the tracks, then putting "Various Artists" in the Album Artist field. This way, each track could have it's own individual artist info, yet iTunes still recognized them as being from the same album. Another poster said check "Part of Compilation" but that does NOT work when selecting several tracks to edit at once since it does not appear. I still don't know why I had this issue in the first place. The fact that the album name was identical for all tracks should be enough. :/

My situation was an album of different artists but iTunes split the album even though the album title was identical for all of them - I even selected all the tracks and input the album title all at once, and it still split up the album 5 ways.

Thanks. Your advice worked. As someone who doesn't understand technology I'm grateful to you and others who take the time to help people like me out. Your helpfulness is appreciated more than you probably realize.