Problem with original and remastered album

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Problem with original and remastered album

I own the original CD of Roger Waters' "Amused to Death", which I ripped and is in my iTunes/Match library.

I just purchased the remastered/reissue of the album from Amazon (CD/Blu-ray) and downloaded the MP3s with Amazon's "auto-rip" feature. They were automatically added to my iTunes library.

I noticed that all the tracks, from both versions, were showing up under the same album in iTunes. So I decided to add "2015" to the album name of the new tracks.

But when I did this the original album in Match shrunk from 14 to 7 tracks. I checked my iTunes library and some of the original album tracks had the 2015 added to the album name. So I deleted the "2015" and now the NEW album as missing tracks on Match. Again, only 7 tracks instead of 14.

Can someone help me to sort this out so I can keep both versions in iTunes?

Posted on Jul 29, 2015 6:21 AM

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Answer 1

Jul 29, 2015 8:04 AM in response to Michael Napier

Hi,

Are all tracks from each album in your iTunes library on you computer? If not, are they still on your hard drive? If yes, What is the iCloud status of the tracks?

Jim

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Answer 2

Jul 29, 2015 8:08 AM in response to Jimzgoldfinch

Ok, I noticed that the tracks on the 2015 album that were missing in Match showed the duplicate iCloud status in my iTunes library.

So I clicked on the duplicate icon and told chose "delete duplicate" and "move file to trash". When it did this the track also disappeared from my iTunes library.

So I moved the file from the trash to my desktop and from there I dragged it back into my iTunes library. I waited a bit and it then showed up in Match, in the proper album and no longer showed the duplicate icon so I did that to each of the other tracks and now everything SEEMS to be working correctly.

I have both albums in Match, each with all 14 tracks. Now, I haven't yet listened to them to make sure I'm getting the original AND remastered songs but I will do that later.

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