tracks in same album split into different "albums"

You're welcome. 🙂

tt2

This fixed it for me. Thanks so much. This problem has been annoying me for years. Excellent fix.

If you want to merge multiple albums that have split due to having different artist:

Select the split albums

Right click and select “Get Info”

Select “Album is a compilation of songs by various artists” next to “Compilation” category

Click OK to save

My problem with albums being split up has nothing to do with compilations. Albums that are from only 1 artist are being split up into multiple albums and even having a different artist given too them. I go on my itunes on my computer to check to see if somehow they got messed up and the albums are all the way they're suppose to be. I just don't know how to fix them it's really annoying. Here's an example of how some albums are being listed on my phone. Madonna Celebration 34 tracks by her- 1 track by Rammstein (Beautiful Stranger) and 1 track by Drill (Who's that girl). But on my computer they're all listed as Madonna being the artist. Please help this is SOOOOO annoying.

boogy75 wrote:

But on my computer they're all listed as Madonna being the artist. Please help this is SOOOOO annoying.

On all songs, make sure the Artist is ONLY Madonna.

Also, Album Artist is Madonna

If the library on the device is corrupt take the following steps:

1. Backup the device.
2. Restore as a new device.
3. Restore the backup you made earlier.

tt2

Take a look over in the iTunes Match forum. I think something's wrong with iCloud. This afternoon, my library exploded. All looks well on my Mac, but all my Devices and the ATV show the same nonsense with respect to album splits and artists. Something's happened... and it's not good. I hope it can be fixed or reset.

@Ed91 - Fast forward 5 years and this solution still works. Thank you!

Here we are at version 12.2 and this was the fix!

You are an absolute legend! Thank you! It was annoying my OCD before!

I changed the capitalization on a artist's name for several albums, for consistency, using "get info" for each album in turn; itunes split each of those albums into two, and nothing I tried fixed things until I foundd and tried this 'add/delete space' idea. So ... thanks.

I just got off the phone with Apple, and “Frank” had a quick fix that works great. I wrote it down here, if anyone wants to use it. It is a very simple solution that does not require a high level of comprehension regarding iTunes album organization.

HOW TO MERGE AN ALBUM THAT HAS BEEN SPLIT:

Search “MY MUSIC", using “ARTISTS” to locate the split album. When listed by artist, the split album listings are shown consecutively, one right next to the other.

Highlight the first song of the first album and then SHIFT/HIGHLIGHT to include the last song of the album to be merged.

Right click on highlighted area and select “GET INFO.” Ignore prompt regarding multiple items. “Get Info” will immediately show the correct screen by default, which is the “DETAILS" screen.

The line item, “ALBUM” will be listed as “mixed.” Change this to the correct name of the album.

Select OK

The screen will rearrange its presentation and merge the split albums into a single album, showing the separated songs in their correct position.

Wow, didn't know that's all I had to do. I've been having this problem for awhile now but not anymore haha.

yes! thank you so much

Just a heads up for others based on my experience, everything needs to be the same (except the artwork if you want a still from the music video to show, delete the artwork (unless it has a still, as some do) so for example, I like to group music videos with the album the songs are from but I have a few that refused to group with their album. So, figured out my problem was that there was no 'genre' set for the music videos. Once I realized that and set the genre to "Rock" like the actual album, the music videos jumped into the album.