How can I copy albums from itunes to an SD card without splitting the tracks?

I've tried putting albums onto an SD card from itunes on my Macbook Pro by dragging & dropping, but all the tracks have been split up. When I access the SD card the tracks are mixed up and not grouped together in albums.
I've also tried to find my itunes files but unable to locate them using finder.
Any help would be welcome.

When you have albums in iTunes the songs are organized because iTunes is a database. When you copy the albums/tracks to an SD card (or any other location) they are just files, there is no database keeping them in order. So the order you see on the SD card is whatever sorting order you have the Finder set for (or other program if you are using it).
The easiest way to ensure track files are in the desired order on a disk is to preface the track name with a sequence number ... so, for example, you rename Black Magic Woman as 01-Black Magic Woman, etc.
The location of your iTunes Library is normally users/yourusername/Music/iTunes ... and your actual media files (albums & songs) are in a subfolder named iTunes Music

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