fender59

Q: Importing cd issues

OK Itunes legends help please, I am having issues with itunes and windows 10.

E.G I import 3 Steve Earle albums they all go fine and file away properly in the Steve Earle section of my library.

Then I import Steve Earle and The Dukes (& Duchesses) Low Highway cd and I make the album artist Steve Earle but it imports as a seperate SAteve Earl album so I have 2 S.E listings one with 7 albums and another with just one.

I have changed the artist name and album artist to SEX and then re entered as Steve Earle as suggested by someone but it still stays as a seperate list !!! I8 have deleted and re imported but no luck.

The same thing has happened with Bad Company best of cd which ends up as a seperate BC listing.

I am completely flummuxed and would appreciate any help

Cheers

Dave from Downunder

Posted on Sep 9, 2016 5:57 PM

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  • by turingtest2,Helpful

    turingtest2 turingtest2 Sep 9, 2016 8:57 PM in response to fender59
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    Sep 9, 2016 8:57 PM in response to fender59

    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. Part of a compilation should also be set consistently.

     

    * 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. At one point I had three lots of Various Artists in the artists view of my iTunes Match library 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

  • by fender59,

    fender59 fender59 Sep 9, 2016 8:58 PM in response to turingtest2
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    Sep 9, 2016 8:58 PM in response to turingtest2

    Thanks I tried this but no luck

    Cheers