re. How iTunes handles uploaded CD's

katejo

I have noticed that when I upload a CD which includes tracks by different artists, iTunes seems to treat them as entirely separate tracks and not as an album. So when i view my albums list on the iPod, the tracks have separate entries. I would prefer them to be together.

Would that be any different if i had bought the whole album from iTunes? I do buy some albums online but (up to now) most have been uploaded from CD's.

J_B

I had the new Jools CD for xmas so put it onto iTunes and the same happened to me.
Each track was by Jools & a different name
What I did was to rename each artist to just Jools and it all sorted itself out then.
I tried right click, but that didn't work, so ... a sort of slow double click brought up the highlighting that I could then rename.

googler

Edit Info, and check 'Part of a Compilation', as I recall....

katejo

J_B wrote: »

I had the new Jools CD for xmas so put it onto iTunes and the same happened to me.
Each track was by Jools & a different name
What I did was to rename each artist to just Jools and it all sorted itself out then.
I tried right click, but that didn't work, so ... a sort of slow double click brought up the highlighting that I could then rename.

Exactly the same as mine. It has Bocelli opera tracks with other artists. You did the above on itunes after uploading the CD?

katejo

googler wrote: »

Edit Info, and check 'Part of a Compilation', as I recall....

This refers to Info on iTunes?

googler

katejo wrote: »

This refers to Info on iTunes?

Yes, right-click on the tracks concerned, and from the pop-up menu, choose 'Get Info'.

http://ipod.about.com/od/editingsonginfo/ht/editing_itunes.htm

http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/music-audio-podcasting/166447-compilations-itunes-explained.html