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:. 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. 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 say Var Page content loaded. Jul 21, PM in response to keilholz In response to keilholz. Jul 21, PM. Jul 21, PM in response to turingtest2 In response to turingtest2. The steps below should help to resolve this issue.
Album title is used here as an example, but the same steps apply to other fields, including Artist and Album Artist. First, confirm that the Album name is exactly the same for all tracks comprising the album. Even slight differences, such as an otherwise invisible space at the end of the title, will result in it being listed as a different album.
If the album titles are identical, the Album field will show the title. In this case, type or paste the album title as you would like it to be listed. Add a comment.
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Jason Salaz Jason Salaz Editing the Sorting fields for the whole group of songs worked for me! I hadn't bother before, cause they seemed to be correct at plain sight. Really strange! Thank you Jason. I would suggest selecting all four songs and doing the following: Delete metadata from the tracks: at least Grouping, Album, Artist, Sort Album, and Sort Artist, but more wouldn't hurt.
Save the absence of the data by selecting "Done. Tuesday Tuesday Doug Doug 31 1 1 bronze badge. Keep it available in the Finder. Go into iTunes and select the song which is split from the album Right click on it and choose "Show in Finder". It should be in the same folder as the other songs. If not there probably is a difference in the album name.
Changing the view in iTunes or running a search doesn't change the physical location of tracks on disk or affect the metadata associated with them, but these operations can cause albums to be split up in the way they're displayed on screen. To avoid this you can mark all of the relevant tracks as part of a compilation: highlight all the songs in iTunes, right-click and choose "Get Info," then on the Options tab make sure the "Part of a compilation" option is set to "Yes.
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