Itunes splits albums in Artist sort mode

I get this all the time. There is a work around. You might have to try it in a different order.

Right Click one of the Tacks and Get info. Copy the Artist name from a track and paste it to the track that has split.

Then Drag the track from iTunes to the desktop . You then can delete it from your iTunes library. Then goto the artist, and then add the track to the iTunes library from your desktop File » Add to Library ... it should then go to the artist.

This is a recurring issue with iTunes. It is in the embedded meta data of certain track ... If you highlight an artists name, you might see that there is a space after the name. Space is not invisible to iTunes, it sees it as a charter.

Also, try clearing the artist name completely from the track info and you might see that iTunes still recognises the artist, even though it is blank - that's the embedded data..

I had been following pretty much the same process, but with an extra step -- using Tag Editor app to change metadata, remove invisible characters, etc before adding back to library. A pain but does work.

Select all the tracks of the album, Get Info, add a trailing X to each of Artist, Album and Album Artist, click OK. This should merge the album. Go back and remove the trailing Xs.

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Ditto on turingtest2 's method that worked for me. Tried suggestions by others that're scattered around different forums but this was the 1st that worked. Thanks turing.

Hey Apple! Seriously???

I can't get rid of the X's now. Any ideas?

Get Info, click at the right-hand edge of the text you want to edit, click again if all the text got selected, press backspace to remove one character, repeat for other fields as required, click OK.

tt2