How do prevent itunes from splitting albums with various artists into multiple albums?
Thanks for your help!
iPod touch, iOS 5
You need to do this:
select all the tracks you want > right click > 'Get Info' > make sure 'Info' is selected at top > change 'Album Artist' to 'Various' > 'OK'
Hope this makes sense 😀
Generally all you need to do is fill in an appropriate Album Artist. For more details see my article on Grouping Tracks Into Albums, in particular the topic One album, too many covers.
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It's probably better to put Various Artists into the Album Artist box rather than just "various". Make sure it's the Album Artist field though. In addition, you need to mark the album as a compilation. When setting the complete album, the Part of a compilation is on a drop-down menu on the File/Get Info/Options tab:
but if changing just one song, it's a tick-box on the Info tab:
and needless to say, the album name must be exactly the same for each track.
How can i prevent itunes from splitting individual albums into multiple albums?
