Different artists with exactly same album name

How did these get added to iTunes? The reason I ask is that the normal layout of the library under Music is Album Artist and in that folder should be the actual albums. So I would expect to see a folder - Artist1 > Greatest Hits and another folder - Artist2 > Greatest Hits.

Usually that happens when iTunes sees more than one artist associated with a song or songs. When that happens to me, after the import/rip, I do a get info to edit the various tags that gets the album in the correct place. So in the example below, the Artist is "Mixed" and the Album Artist is two guys. Because of this, iTunes checks the compilation box.

I can 'fix' this by changing the artist to be the same as the album artist and uncheck the compilation box. It'll put in a folder called Boney James & Rick Braun.

You should be able to do the same with your two albums. Set the Album artist and artist to the same person and uncheck the compilation box.

Hope this helps.

Greatest Hits is the most obvious shared album title but there are others. In iTunes distinct combinations of Album Artist and Album should make separate albums, but an older iPod may lump them together. Personally I opt for the pattern <Album> - <Artist> or occasionally <Album> - <Artist> [<Label>|<Year>] when the same band has issued more than one album with the same title. See Grouping tracks into albums for more information.

The compilation flag should not be generally be set unless there are different artists performing each track, in which case a unique album title is imperative.

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The last album I had the compilation thing happen to had 2 tracks that were the band name featuring artist name. iTunes set the artist to mixed and set the compilation flag. Easy enough to fix, though at times, after 'fixing' it, the song info related to the artist disappears..... Hey, it's iTunes 😁

Ah yes, iTunes, the puzzle that keeps on giving. (Or should that be taking away. 👿)

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