Compilation Albums in Itunes 7.0

A problem I have yet to see on these boards with 7.0
Compilation albums will not display in track order (or play in track order!) Some of them seem to go into artist order on the album and I can't work out what the order is for others - it doesnt play the albums in order either - really annoying on mix albums!! kind of defeats the purpose of gapless playback

right - have made further progress with this issue.
If you have an album freshly ripped that is a compilation it will sort tracks numerically. Once you tell Itunes that it is a compilation though it then will sort by Artist within that compilation. It will no longer sort it in track order even if you uncheck the compilation option!! Further more, when I sort using "Album by Artist" - the albums in question do not stay together but Itunes treats each track as a seperate album with each track sprinkled thru the full list - cannot find a way to resolve this yet though!!!

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    This thread is as a result of a post in December 2012, in another thread ( https://discussions.apple.com/message/20450908#20450908 ) by jacdan. I felt it would be preferable if this discussion was kept separate from the original post.
    Until now, iTunes regarded a Compilation Album as one with multiple artists, but the music industry and consequently a lot of the entries on Gracenote regarded an album by a single artist - but with songs from various stages of their career - as a compilation. Looking at the Artist list in iTunes, there was no entry for "Various Artists", and albums were instead listed under "Compilations". This has meant for example, that not only was "Now XX listed under Compilations, but so too was "The Whole Story" by Kate Bush (a compilation of her earlier work). If that was the only album of hers in my Library, her name would not be listed in the Artists section. I also found it necessary to fill in the Album Artist field on Compilation albums with "Various Artist".
    With iTunes 11, in the Artists section of the Library, Compilation Albums (by various artists) are now listed under Various Artists. I discovered several albums in my Library that did not have "Various Artists" in the album name field and these were listed under "Compilations" instead. Completeing the Album Artist field has sucessfuly moved those albums to Various Artists. The "Compilations" within the Artists section has now disappeared.
    However, what is not quite clear, is when or how albums do get put into the Compilation section. I have experimented with the Kate Bush album, and a Mike & The Mechanics album, to see if I could get them to be entered into the "Compilations" section, but without success.
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    I've tried with the album part set to Compilation, but in these shots, the complete album is set as a Compilation. If I look in songs, there it is, between White Island Fever and Why Don't We Do It In The Road?;
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    although, when I first found them, Compilations was shown immediately below All Artists. The Whole Story isn't hiding under Various Artists either;
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    You couldn't make it up!
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  • Adding compilation albums to iTunes. Some artist get listed separately

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    Please will someone answer this CLEARLY. All the answers I have explored do not!!
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    yeah but I use the same folder organization in both Windows and on the iRiver, on which I have the Rockbox OS.
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    8th  ----  Apple is going down the toilet because the products are good, not great, and the itunes instructions are non existent
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    10th -The suggestion for online feedback is this; BE ON-LINE SUPPORT, NOT WHATEVER YOU CONSIDER IT TO BE NOW.

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    Generally all you need to do is fill in an appropriate Album Artist. For more details see my article on Grouping Tracks Into Albums, in particular the topic One album, too many covers.
    tt2

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    Message was edited by: steve pick

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    Message was edited by: steve pick

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