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Same album titles. Why split into 3 or more albums?

Example: My Cheap Trick music collection is perfectly organized with the correct original album title with each song. In song view it looks very organized. However, when you view in artist or album view it's a mess. I have songs from 16 different Cheap Trick albums. So it stands to reason that I should see 16 albums in my artist of album view. NO! I SEE 31 ALBUMS. The songs are split up. I see tracks 1, 4 & 6 from the album "Heaven Tonight" in one album. Songs 2, 4 & 10 from the same album in a different album (same artwork, same album, but not in the SAME album) And then I see tracks 7&9 in yet a 3rd "Heaven Tonight" album.

I may have downloaded these at different times and used different methods but until they can all be melded together to show only ONE album, my iTunes will be nothing but a big mess!

iPhone 4, iOS 5.0.1

Posted on Dec 6, 2012 7:48 PM

18 replies

Dec 7, 2012 9:14 PM in response to Paul Underwood1

Or, instead of trying to trick iTunes how about having the geniuses at Apple just fix iTunes. Here's the easy fix. If the artist is the same and the album is listed as the same, then that trumps ALL other items that might be screwed up inside the song's DNA. ALL THOSE SONGS APPEAR IN ONE ALBUM WITH ONE ARTWORK!

Ashka

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Dec 7, 2012 9:25 PM in response to Paul Underwood1

Just fixed mine by changing the 'Album Artist' in Get Info > Info tab to "Various" in multi artist albums.

Now back to single albums rather than three or four.

Dec 9, 2012 7:06 PM in response to Ashka

that worked. then you can go back and change it back. still a pain, but at least it works. Still it doesn't always put the tracks in the right order.

Same album titles. Why split into 3 or more albums?