iTunes 11 splitting up albums into separate tracks for each song

My solution was to create a playlist using the artist/album name. I then imorted the the CD's into the playlist. I higlighted all of the songs in order to request the info. I filled out the artist & other album information.
When I went back to my list of Albums, I found that iTunes updated the album itself.

I've ran into this problem as well, and it usually does stem from having a typo in one track's artist or album artist (even just capitalization). One album of mine had track 2 as a separate album, but the rest all together. Trying several of the solutions around the web only resulted in accidentally separating track 3 as well.

I had gone through and selected all the songs from this album and made sure that every field in the metadata was identical (except track names and numbers, of course) but no change. In Windows Explorer, you could even see that iTunes had already sorted them into the same folder. To be extra sure, I even used MP3tag to verify that all the necessary fields were identical.

The only thing that I have found to do is delete the album, making sure to select Keep Files (DO NOT send to the Recycle Bin), and then drag the tracks from their original folder and drop them on iTunes. This will recreate the album in the list, and they all come out as one album again. It is certainly an annoyance, and something Apple should have fixed by now, but at least this method has worked for me every time.

Occasionally iTunes seems to hold on to the notion that there are two albums even after the data has been made consistent. The "add a trailing X" technique from Grouping tracks into albums should normally resolve that.

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Hey everyone, I think I found a solution.

For some reason, iTunes often labels one track as a compilation when the other tracks in the album are not. You can rename and change every info spot and nothing will change. Usually the first track has the compilation box ticked. Hope this helps.

This fixed my problem. I have hundreds of Pearl Jam's live shows and they are separated on either 2 or 3 cd's. Sometimes they import all into one "show" listing 'disc 1', 'disc 2', 'disc 3' within the concert. While other times certain discs import as a completely separate album. In those cases, it is often because one gets listed as part of a compilation. Once I corrected that, everything worked well. Thanks again.

Really want to say thanks for this. Im repairing my ipod for synchnoising and this has saved me some amount of time.

After trying to compare every which field imaginable to no avail, the "add trailing x" method worked for me. So it appears iTunes does carry around some ghost info. There is no other way but to categorize this as a bug!

Thanks for the solution.

You're welcome. 🙂

tt2

You'll probably never see this but just wanted to say thank you so much, saved me a lot of frustration with this suggestion:)

I've had this issue, even though all my music is properly tagged. It usually happens when an album has a bunch of collaborators. Even after you go in and change the artist / sort artist, the albums stay fractured. I've found that selecting all the artist's music, changing their name to something different, saving, then changing it back to the proper name fixes the problem. Here' it step by step:

1. Select all the music by the artist in question. It's best if you have iTunes in "song" view with the Column Browser on, this way you can easily narrow down the artist.
2. Select all of the artist's music, then get info. I usually just add the number 1 to the end of the Artist and Album Artist. Then hit OK.
3. Reselect all the songs again, then change the name back to the normal name (in this case Metric) and hit OK. When you go back to artist view, all should be well.