How do I import and JOIN 3 songs from a CD?

iTunes will allow your to join tracks during CD Import if - and only if:

• The tracks of the CD are sorted in ascending track order - to do this, you must click on the unlabeled column heading above the track numbers so that the "^" symbol is displayed on the right-hand side of the column heading, sorting on any other column, even if the resulting order is the same, will disable Join Tracks.
• All tracks, or a subset of consecutive tracks, are selected. So you can join tracks 1,2 and 3 or 4, 5 and 6 but not 1, 3 and 5 or 2, 4 and 6.

When these two conditions are satisfied the Join CD Tracks function will be available in the Options dropdown.

You're welcome. Although iTunes doesn't help here, there are plenty of third party tools that can be used to join media files once extracted from CD.

ckin wrote:

That's what I was afraid of. But thanks!

What exactly are you afraid of?

I assume the fact that iTunes doesn't support joining non-consecutive tracks.

I have not been able to "join tracks" even after following your notes. I am trying to join the tracks for each in an audiobook CD so I can transfer it to my iPod. I was previously able to do this but now, I cannot get "Join tracks" to show under the options. I'm attaching a screen shot of the tracks highlighted, the little up arrow shown in the top column and the drop down choices from "options." Can you see where my problem is? Any other advice? Thanks.

Your screenshot shows that you've sorted the tracks on the CD by name. To enable the Join Tracks function you must sort on the unlabeled sequence number column on the left (even though the resulting order is the same). The sort indicator ("^") will then appear in the column header to the left of the checkbox icon.

THANK YOU SO MUCH! My blood pressure is back to normal now. 🙂

You're welcome.