How to split 2 albums same artist/the same title?

Hey ermoya,

Thanks for the question, and welcome to Apple Support Communities.

I understand that you wish to separate two albums that have the same title and artist. You have a couple of options:

A) Make a slight variation of the title (adding a space, or adding the album year to the title)

B) Differentiate the albums by utilizing the Disc # field. This will still group the albums together, but differentiate the tracks to be on separate discs.

C) Make a slight variation of the Album Artist field

This article explains how iTunes sorts different ID3 metadata. It is usually used for the opposite situation of yours, but reversing the steps may help.

Why aren't songs with the same album art grouped together?

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1468

Slight variations in spacing, spelling, or punctuation of the album name can cause iTunes to consider the two songs to be from separate albums. Be sure that all the songs that are supposed to be from the same album have the exact same album name. One way to easily do this is to select all the songs and choose Get Info from the File menu and retype the album name such that it will apply to all the selected songs.

Thanks,

Matt M.

The solutions provided here are kludgy. iTunes simply should be smarter; Perhaps it could (but currently doesn't) use the Sort Album Name tag so the display name would be correct even as we corrupt the sort name. But ideally, the release year (not original release year), medium (a standard tag iTunes doesn't recognize), and label (ditto) should all provide differentiation.