how to join tracks in itunes 11? No more Advanced Menu!

Poyser wrote:

Just found out how to do it :-).

When you insert a new CD and you wish to join it as a long continuous file in one track select the Tracks then click on options. Join these tracks will finally appear. If nothing is selected you will not see this option appear.

Apparently you must first select the tracks you want to join. Which is pretty cool.

You must sort on the first column with the numbers.
If you don’t, it doesn’t matter what you do, you will not be able to join tracks.

yeah, this was tricky for me to find. I had already imported and given song names to my CD by an apparently obscure band that isn't listed .

I stuck it in again, I have auto-import turned on, then I canceled importing.

All the tracks were named Track 01 thru Track 13, but sorting by track name wasn't doing it. Must sort by the far left column, the track numbers. Must be ascending 1 2 3... not descending 13 12 11... reading down.

Then I had to SELECT the tracks - click on one end, shift click on the other end.

ONLY THEN does JoinCDTracks show up. I chose it. A big bracket now seemed to enclose all the songs.

Then I said IMPORT and it said, it already had those songs (original ones I imported, it thought they were each a separate album). Only saying Replace to import them all worked.

hmm... now it thinks the album has two tracks, each 47 minutes long. I deleted one. hmmm... at least it's in and it's not 13 separate albums anymore.

I finally found the elusive Join Tracks menu, the written explanations were good but the shots of the screen clinched it for me. Thanks to all who provided explanations. It seemed to work well. BUT, here's my experience: after I clicked Join Tracks it put a bracket around the tracks that I had highlighted, I then had to check the tracks and clicked "Import CD" it showed that it was downloading all the tracks and when done showed the play time as being the total of the tracks. However, when I went to my Music List and looked for the addition, all it had was the first of the tracks in the list that I had selected. I then checked the Recently Added list and saw the same thing, the "joined tracks" consisted of the first track only. I thought perhaps it was reading the list based only on the first track but I played it and it was, indeed, only the first track. No joined tracks.This was the same of all three Joined Tracks downloads that I attempted.

I've now spent, literally, days searching the web for methods and trying them. Argggh!

Is there a way to join songs that are already in my iTunes library, that I purchased from iTunes?

From my research, no, w/o a special app, read through the thread one is available for Mac, the one I tried for Windows is too complicated.

So simple!! Can't believe that this isn't in any of the official Apple support articles I've seen thus far. THANK YOU! :-)

nknewt wrote:

So simple!! Can't believe that this isn't in any of the official Apple support articles I've seen thus far. THANK YOU! :-)

https://support.apple.com/kb/PH19607?locale=en_US&viewlocale=en_US

All of the responses are great if you are sporting CD's, ancient history since the MBP doesn't have a drive anymore.....is there a way to join them in your music library? I realize that I can just edit them together but I figured that the application should be smart enough to figure it out.

greg h wrote:

is there a way to join them in your music library?

No.

but I figured that the application should be smart enough to figure it out.

except iTunes is not an editing application.

Use Join Together

-> http://dougscripts.com/apps/jointogetherapp.php

Thanks for that info, my "editing" comment was a last resort outside of iTunes.

I'll check your link!

When importing the CD look to the right for a Gear icon. Click the gear icon and the Join CD Tracks option is there.