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Q: Why is iTunes putting same artist multiple times?

I recently added a song to iTunes (from soundcloud) and edited the metadata to add the artist name. It showed up as a separate tab in iTunes even though it was the same name artist? Then I removed the name from all songs and renamed them the same artist, now all the songs are in separate tabs?Screen Shot 2016-01-12 at 3.42.00 PM.png

iMac, OS X El Capitan (10.11.2), iTunes 12.3.2.35

Posted on Jan 12, 2016 12:47 PM

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Q: Why is iTunes putting same artist multiple times?

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  • by Tron2008,

    Tron2008 Tron2008 Sep 8, 2016 10:43 AM in response to Michaelrulesify
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    Sep 8, 2016 10:43 AM in response to Michaelrulesify

    Wow, nothing helps. I spent so much time deleting, naming, renaming, and nothing helps. Never saw this in earlier versions of iTunes and completely surprised why Apple can't seem to reproduce it then patch. I'm on v12.4.3.1 and been seeing this #$%^ issue for at least the last two builds. I can see if this is some obscure application they have and plan on obsoleting it soon, but this is a bread-and-butter application where crap like this should be addressed immediately.

     

    The odd thing is that under Albums view all the songs are properly displayed. So at least in the metadata iTunes uses it knows that these songs are related to the same album, same artist, etc.

     

    ...and we as paying customers should not have to be playing around with hacks like this!!

  • by esstown,

    esstown esstown Sep 8, 2016 11:13 AM in response to welshcatholic
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    Sep 8, 2016 11:13 AM in response to welshcatholic

    Thank you! Worked miraculously!

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