How can I group many songs into one album

Although it's unorthodox, it is possible, assuming that none of the songs are write protected.

As you suggest, the album name needs to be the same and one way of ensuring that is to copy your chosen title from one song to all the rest, thereby eliminating typing errors. Assuming there are different artists for some or all of the songs, the Album Artist field needs to have "Various Artists" in it and the Part Of A Compilation needs to be set as "Yes".

This will of course remove those songs form any current album that they are on. Is this what you intend?

"Write protected" here means that the files on your computer can't be modified or updated (determined by settings in Windows) - nothing to do with copyright.

To make your selections appear as one album then one or both of the following need to be true:

• all tracks have the same value for Album and the same value for Album Artist
• all tracks have the same value for Album and the "Album is a compilation ..." flag is checked.

From your screenshot it seems that you have the individual artists' names in the Album Artist field - I'd suggest changing this so that the value is "Various Artists" or similar - the important thing is that this value needs to be the same for all the tracks that you're trying to put into one "album".

If Album / Album Artist / Album is a compilation ... appear to be set correctly but tracks still won't group as expected:

• select all songs that should be part of one album
• right-click > Get Info, append a "dummy character" to the Album value (e.g., change "Josh Turner Radio" to "Josh Turner RadioX")
• click OK - tracks should now group correctly
• repeat the edit to remove the dummy character - grouping should be preserved.

I'm not sure, though, why you're using the approach - creating a playlist is much easier and more flexible, as well as leaving the original metadata and grouping into albums unchanged,

As mentioned by myself and hhgttg27, the Album Artist must say Various Artists, but in your screenshot, it shows Daryl Worley, who is only one of the artists and Brad Paisley as another artist in the other screenshot. For a compilation album, the artist is in the Artist field, while Various Artists is in the Album Artist field.

Also as hhgttg says, it would be far easier to simply put all these songs into a Playlist. Then you wouldn't have to spend time changing the Album or the Album Artist metadata. You can't (of course) add one piece of artwork to a Playlist, but it seems like a lot of work changing all the album titles etc. just to add unique artwork to all of a Playlist, when those songs retain their original artwork even when in a Playlist.