Songthrush
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Apple Music

Q: itunes library

This is not desperate but of interest only, I have learnt how to make my several split albums into one and now find it quite simple, the one problem I still have is a triple album by Tina Turner where the three discs of 'Platinum Collection' 'have another Tina Turner album coming between disc one and two, I can't see why.  All entries under info are the same.

iPod nano, Windows 10, Windows 10 with Airport Express

Posted on Jun 13, 2016 4:27 PM

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Q: itunes library

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  • by Corrie84,

    Corrie84 Corrie84 Jun 14, 2016 12:24 PM in response to Songthrush
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    Jun 14, 2016 12:24 PM in response to Songthrush

    Hello Songthrush, 

     

    It looks like you're having some difficulties grouping together songs from a compilation album made up of three discs, into one album in iTunes. I know how important it is to keep music in iTunes organized so it's easy to find when you need it so I'm glad you reached out to Apple Support Communities for help. 

     

    There are a few different reasons why iTunes may not be grouping those albums together. Your best bet is to follow the steps in this support article: 

     

    If you see unexpected groups of songs when you browse an album - Apple Support

     

    Thank you for using Apple Support Communities.

     

    Have an awesome day!

  • by turingtest2,

    turingtest2 turingtest2 Jun 18, 2016 7:14 PM in response to Songthrush
    Level 10 (85,388 points)
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    Jun 18, 2016 7:14 PM in response to Songthrush

    If iTunes shows multiple instances of an artist or an album then what generally works is to select all related tracks and use Get Info to add say a trailing X to each of the fields that the tracks should have in common:

    • For an album; Album, Album Artist, and Artist (if artist is the same for all tracks) *
    • For an artist; Album Artist (and Artist unless there are guest/featured artists listed which should not be changed)

    Apply the change which merges things together, then remove the excess characters. Occasionally it may help to close and reopen iTunes between the two renaming operations.

     

    * If tracks are to be synced to a non-iOS device there should be a common Artist and/or the album should be set as a Compilation.

     

     

    Use the songs view and display the fields Album, Sort Album, Album Artist, Sort Album Artist, Artist and Sort Artist side by side so you see whether or not it is appropriate to edit Artist and if sort values could be causing any further problems. See Grouping tracks into albums for more help if required.

     

     

    One further tip for really stubborn duplicates. I had three lots of Various Artists in the artists view of my iTunes Match library the other day that wouldn't respond to the usual trailing X treatment. What I found worked was to add the trailing X to start with, but then with each group that iTunes wanted to keep separate start typing a value and let iTunes autocomplete from Var... to Various Artists. Picking from the autocomplete lists seemed to work when pasting/editing the whole value didn't.

     

     

    tt2