Q: tracks in same album split into different "albums"

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.

Thanks sooo much! I've been dealing with this problem for a long time and couldn't find the reason or solution.

Your advice worked like a charm. Thanks again.

Hi,

Read your putting it all together again writing but I couldn't find a solution there for my case. Maybe here I'll have better luck...

Given an iTunes Store purchased album which somehow not only got broken apart, but each song has divided and proliferated. There are now 30 songs in 30 "albums" crowd the iTunes screen. Here is a screenshot:

Any idea, in a recipe format, on how to put Humpty-Dumpty together again? :-)

Thanks in advance...

Select all the tracks. This may be easier to do in the Songs view.

Press CMD+I to Get Info.

On the Sorting tab set the properties as follows:

Album=Sounds of Summer - The Very Best of the Beach BoysX

Sort Album=Sounds of Summer - The Very Best of the Beach BoysX

Album Artist=The Beach BoysX

Sort Album Artist=Beach BoysX

Artist=The Beach BoysX

Sort Artist=Beach BoysX

Click OK. This should merge everything into one album. Use Get Info again to remove the trailing Xs.

You also appear to be showing two copies of the track, one greyed out indicating it is unchecked, and another with a cloud link for downloading. Try signing out of the iTunes store and then back in again to remove the duplicates.

tt2

Thank you. This worked wonderfully.

There were two other single rogue instances - they fixed themselves also without me acting on them. It appears the iTunes Store logout may have made some difference in the background...

Thanks again!

You're welcome.

tt2

None of that works for me. I usually just delete the album and rip them again. It happens all the time for no reason. I wonder if syncing with  my iPhone has anything to do with it.

I doubt that syncing has an impact. I think the current version is more troublesome in this respect than previous ones. My library had been pristine, one album, one cover, but I trying to illustrate the technique I've caused some of my albums to split up when a a making a single edit, and the techniques to put things back together haven't always worked as they have in the past.

tt2

There definitely seems to be a flaw in recent releases of iTunes that may cause its grouping rules to be incorrectly evaluated (hence the use of the "dummy character" workaround to "trigger" those rules).  I've noted a recent case where an album that's been in my library for years (and always grouped correctly) suddenly showed up as two albums - one with the first two tracks of the first disc, one with the remaining tracks. I'm not aware of having made any edits or other changes that could have caused this; hopefully Apple are sufficiently aware of the problem (I've certainly reported it) and be able to fix it in a future release.

This worked very well for me on a compilation album that was driving me nuts! Just typing the space in album artist and clicking ok was enough. But I did go back, selected all songs, did Get Info and then remove the space, and the fix remained. Thanks for the tip!

I posted a new thread before I found this one. I purchased the album Hamilton from iTunes store. On my phone it shows up as two albums. One with two tracks and the other with the other 30 or so tracks.  I learned sometime ago the trick of selecting all tracks and creating a compilation in iTunes with albums I've ripped. But do I need to do this with an album I purchased on iTunes?

I also considered making a playlist with all the tracks in the right order.

Any thoughts would be appreciated.  Thanks.

Delete from the iPhone. Make sure the version in iTunes has a common album artist. Sync back to the iPhone.

tt2

Thanks bsteed,

I am using iTunes 12.4.3.1, and I had this same problem. Your solution worked wonders! Thank you.

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