iTunes 12.3.2 does not merge tracks into existing album

Read this previous post from the Apple Knowledge Base

Merge Multiple Albums within iTunes

I have the same issue. It just started with the 12.3.2.35 update (Mac OSX El Capitan), which has also created other problems involving the alphabetical sorting of edited playlist folders. The standard "fixes" noted by Mobie Blues do not work. I have removed all information from the tracks, re-entered the correct album and artist names, deleted the tracks from the iTunes library, re-added them back into the library, and deleted and reinstalled the iTunes app. Nothing is working at this point. I have stopped making any edits to iTunes tracks or playlists at this point.

I found what appears to be a work-around solution until (hopefully) Apple fixes this bug. The albums are splitting whenever tracks are edited in the Artists view. If tracks are edited in the Songs view, everything works. Unfortunately, once the edits are made in Artists view and the album "splits", there is no going back. So I had to delete the tracks where the albums were incorrectly split, re-add the files from my backup iTunes music folder, and then make make the edits from the Songs view. What a pain.

i Have this problem too AND it does not merge Artists either anymore. I Added a King Crimson album and it showed up as a different artist with the same name in Artist view.

Man they screwed up this update :-(

I had the problem were I imported a double album and ended up with two versions and two covers.

Everything according to the info was exactly the same but adding disc 1 of 2 and 2 of 2 wouldn't group them together.

To get round it I found if you "cmd select both albums" and then "cmd I" then change the Album name to <album> and Ok it, the albums would merge together.

Then "cmd I" and change the album name to the one you want and Ok it.

However when I looked at the album only half was there, and half was deleted. ......... panic.

DONT PANIC ........ close down iTunes and reopen it and then check and you will find one album cover with disc 1 and disc 2 when you drop down.

I hope this helps.

Similar to this post, check out my method ... long winded, but it works for me...

Why is iTunes putting same artist multiple times?

I hope not, I'm just getting used to this ones bugs!!! 😁

I have had the same problem this week. It would we an idea for Apple to add a pop-up tab when adding any artist with a recommendation tab, asking 'would you like to add this artist to..... ???? Come on apple !!!

Anyway, my new work around works.

1. Right click on the David bowie Group with the highest number of tracks on the left hand Artist pane.

2. Copy the Artist name from there.

3. Right Click on the Rouge Tracks and rename them - artist - there XXXX. Apply it.

4. Quit iTunes. Open iTunes . Rename the artist in the XXXX David Bowie by pasting the name you copied earlier.

5 Drag them to the desktop and then delete them from the iTunes library.

6. Quit iTunes. Open iTunes and go to David Bowie - like you have on your picture above.

7. Then add the tracks to your library from your desktop. They should now merge to the Artist in the right way.