Albums being split by iTunes

When you go into Info section when you right click on the album, does the track listing and album listing match in both albums?

Hi,

Have you checked sorting in get info? I don't see any reason why they should be different but it is worth a check. I have had intances where sort info was not the same on each track.

Jim

Same problems for my albums and I solved the problem.

Even if the artist, album and disc number are the same, the songs were not merged into the album.

So here's what I did.

I click on the problematic track individually and click get info.

There's a tick for this option called part of a compliation. Tick it and click ok.

The track will then go to combine album.

All the best.

Thanks for the help. I followed blahblahlaine's advice, but I had a LOT of tracks I wanted into one album. I gathered all into one window, selected all, command+I for information, said yes I want to affect change to all, selected "Options" blue tab, checked "Part of a Compilation" Yes, and it put everything into one album all at once.

Having same problem of playing album tracks in number order when split into 3 albums with same cover. Reason is that the two musicians each write some songs and write songs together.

Solution play tracks through spotify where albums stay as albums

Here's what works for me...

1) Select all the songs in the split album.

2) Change each text field to something unique (I use Test Artist, Test Album Artist, Test Title, etc.)

(I don't change any comments, track numbers, dates, etc.)

3) Save the album.

4) Check to see if the new test album contains all the songs.

5) If the album is now intact select all the songs again and rename the fields with the correct information.

So far this has worked for me.

Thanks! This worked for me! Renamed the artist to "Bears" and then sorted and saw that it became one album. Then changed it back to the original artist name.

... I've found an even easier way of resolving this, where the main artist has guest artists on different tracks:

• select all the tracks in the album
• change the album artist field to that of the main artist
• click on OK

... lo and behold, all the tracks are then grouped together as a single album but retain the individual artist name(s) on each track 🙂

Kind of annoying but this is what I just found works. for me I had an artist with all my collection from him but 1 single album that did not want to go in to the group. I tried rewriting the artist and album artist repeatedly, basically trying everything in "get info". I then took the single album that would not sync, removed all info, except track #, etc. I then went into songs, found the blank artist and the song from that album and reapplied the name in both artist and album artist. This seemed to work for me, I'd say give it a try.

sounds2k - you saved me enormous amounts of time with this.... thank you thank you thank you!!