How to make itunes recognize songs with same album but different artists.?

Question

I have the new Ministry of Sound of album and when I try to import it into iTunes it keeps making around 13 different albums even though they are from the same album. Can anyone tell me how to make iTunes recognize that they are from the same album?

Answer 1

What you need to do is tell iTunes that the album is a compilation album. I'm assuming you're running the most recent version of iTunes (but it will work pretty much the same way in any version). Click on one of the 13 albums that is showing up in your iTunes library and select the "Get Info" option from the menu that will display. A window will display showing all of the information for that album, and there will be multiple tabs across the top. Click on the "Info" tab. At the bottom of the screen associated with the "Info" tab there will be a little check box that says "Part of a compilation" next to it. Click this box. You will need to do this to each of the 13 albums, but as soon as you do it (provided they all have the exact same album name which can also be changed on the "Info" tab) iTunes will combine them and display them as one album.

Answer 2

I've had this problem with compilation albums by different artists. Edit the tracks so that the album artist says "various" and put the actual artist's name in the artist name. For example, artist Madonna, album artist Various. It's also important to make sure that every detail is the same, such as album name, genre, year etc. Every character, including all punctuation, must be right, including spaces. For example Gerry And The Pacemakers will be read differently than Gerry & The Pacemakers, because of the & in the name. Hope this helps.

Answer 3

That's a good question!

Answer 4

Maybe yes

Answer 5

Not quite sure how to answer this