iTUNES HELP

[admin_exported]

Hi

When importing various artist/compilation cds to iTunes it seems to put each individual artist from the same album into a seperate folder???

Now obviously i would like all the tracks from the same album together, is there an easy way to achieve this?

Thanks

 

[John Duncan]

It won't always, unless Gracenote identifies the artist separately on each track (not always the case with 'Various'). But just sort by album - I have no idea which folders on the hard disk my tracks are in........

You'll notice that you do get a dozen versions of the album in cover flow though.......

 

[Clare Newsome]

In the Preferences/General menu, there's also the option to choose "Group Compilations when Browsing" - ticking that will help.

 

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the replies, i've tried that Clare and tried to import Ministry of Sound Chillout Album but the 19 tracks off the 1st Cd have been put in 13 different albums with one or two tracks on each????

 

[Clare Newsome]

How odd - works fine for me. Maybe the tagging on the MOS album is throwing out the database. Or maybe it's just another iTunes quirk....

 

[Anonymous]

Its not just the MOS album its any various and it also does the same on band/solo artist albums where it also shows a contributing artist next to the album artist, eg Alicia Keys feat. John Mayer.

I resolved this issue by removing the 'feat.John Mayer' and then the track is moved to the correct album, but obviously this wouldn't be any good for compilation/various artist albums, so does anyone know any solution to the problem?

Once iTunes has listed the said album as 12 or 13 different albums, is there no way i can manually place all the tracks on one of the listed albums together?? I,ve tried dragging and dropping but that seems to be a no go!

 

[Trevordonnelly]

Try highlighting all the tracks, and then right mouse click. Choose the "Get Info" option, and you're given a Multiple Item Information screen. Change the Compilation option to Yes, and click the radio button next to it. This will put all the tracks into one album. Good luck

 

[John Duncan]

Trevordonnelly:Try highlighting all the tracks, and then right mouse click. Choose the "Get Info" option, and you're given a Multiple Item Information screen. Change the Compilation option to Yes, and click the radio button next to it. This will put all the tracks into one album. Good luck

Oooo good call - will try that with my Burt Bacharach...........

 

[John Duncan]

Hoo CHA

 

[Alec]

JohnDuncan:Hoo CHA

Bless you.

 

[Anonymous]

Yep that seems to of done the trick, cheers very much

 

[fatboyslimfast]

A way to avoid the multiple-covers-in-cover-flow is to do JD's trick above to the "get info" point, then change the album artist (not artist) to "various artists" or similar...

 

[John Duncan]

fatboyslimfast:A way to avoid the multiple-covers-in-cover-flow is to do JD's trick above to the "get info" point, then change the album artist (not artist) to "various artists" or similar...

Yeah, cos cover flow's done by Album + Artist isn't it - does have the disadvantage of you losing the artist for searching, but that may not be a problem for you.