Help! itunes 12 splitting all my albums up

Dave2904 wrote:

Possible solution:

to solve this problem, you need to go to the "my music" tab and then select the tracks that you wish to collate. proceed to right click on them and select "get info" there will be a checkbox on the window that appears that says "Compilation: Album is a compilation of songs by various artists" selecting this will collate the tracks even if the artist names don't match, this should solve the problem. for some reason the checkbox only appears when you select get info on multiple items in the "my music" tab and nowhere else, so this is important.

This worked for me, but there is an addition step required.

• After turning off the 'Share Details with Apple' (as recommended by Turingtest2 above)
• You have to be in the main category of 'My Music' - a tab in the middle-top of the iTunes window
• Then at the right-upper corner there is a drop-down list; that needs to be in the 'songs' category
• When your song list appears you can sort them by clicking on the headers (like a spread sheet) to show all of the songs and albums together
• Then you can highlight all of the songs in the album that you want to recombine
• Now click on 'Get Info' and check the 'Compilation' box
• Type the name of the Artist and Album into the fields - click 'OK' (you will see a task bar appear... 'processing')
• When it is done - This is the Additional Step - highlight the songs in the album again and click 'Get Info' again and then
• Uncheck the 'compilation' box
• Now when you go back to the 'Album' view you will see only one combined album - ta da!

I found the toggling of the compilation setting on and off for each affected album has sorted my library issues.

Thanks! Worked a charm. Although I am glad it was only a dozen outta 1000 albums.

I Have a few albums like this and found that if all the tags are the same and the album is still split you can copy the song to another directory, delete it from itunes and then drag the song back into itunes and the problem will be fixed.

I have this issue (among many) with iTunes, most recently today.

Here's one thing I discovered that helped me fix this issue with certain files:

iTunes apparently periodically decides to reset itself to the default "where to save music to" folder for importing music (from digital files or CDs). This probably happens when it updates or something.

In my case, I generally use a different folder than the default location, and it's stored on an external drive.

If iTunes has decided to reset the import location for music to the default C: location without telling you it's done so, you won't notice anything different initially. But if you had at some point in the past specified a different location for saving music to, what ends up happening is your music becomes fragmented across the two different save locations. In my case, I had a folder for the same artist in both the folder my music is normally stored in (on the external drive) and the default folder that iTunes inexplicably reset itself to (on the C: drive). This seemed to cause iTunes confusion, even though the tags were exactly the same in iTunes itself.

I'm probably not explaining this well, but the moral of the story: file location (of the .mp3s) can contribute to this issue. Check to make sure all your music is saved/imported/stored and saving/importing/storing to the same folder, and that your library isn't fragmented across multiple locations outside of iTunes. Then re-import anything you had to move (and re-tag if necessary). Once I got everything by the artist in question back into one place on the hard drive, iTunes was able to group everything properly again.

There are other things that can play into this I'm sure -- what settings you use for music management, how you've set up iTunes to handle syncing, etc.-- but actual file locations are just another thing to check on that could be contributing.

HI folks,

click this http://www.technipages.com/itunes-album-songs-split-up-in-grid-view

totally works.

This is similar to other methods that generally work - appending and then removing "dummy" characters, setting and unsetting the Compilation flag, etc. The apparent commonality is that they force iTunes to re-evaluate its grouping rules that support the presentation layer - this is "educated conjecture" but I suspect that there's a lurking bug in iTunes that causes the information stored in the library and in the metadata tags of media files to get out sync with the information cached in memory to accelerate performance.

FYI - The "Grouping tracks..." article is out of date. I am not able to find View > Column Browser > Group Compilations.

Select the Songs or other list-based view, then enable the column browser with View > Column Browser > Show Column Browser.

tt2

I'm having all the same problems you mentioned & I agree that is a major bug. Getting tired of playing these games where you have to erase the album or artist & then retype them or check/uncheck the compilation box. And it's even more frustrating that Apple hasn't fixed it yet & i'm writing this 2 yrs after the OP's post. Apple......Fix it already!

Btw, my self-ripped cd's get screwed up just as much as albums bought via iTunes. So I don't think it matters what the music source is.