Adding Items to the Same Album

Question

After Uploading a fair few MP3's from my friend's external hard-drive, I found that they weren't correctly named, and decided to rename them. I tried to find the CD track names, but some of the album names were not correct. After renaming them, I found that, in the grid display option, there were many more albums than I had indicated. I looked into a few artists, and there were songs that I had labeled as in the same album, but they were in different albums. After trying and trying to put them in the same album using the 'Get Info' option for all the songs in the same album, they are all still classed as in different albums. Does anyone have any ideas on what's gone wrong, or how I could fix it?
Many Thanks,
Hayden Jones

Answer 1

Select all the tracks and do a right-click > Get Info. Answer yes, you want to edit info on multiple items.
Retype the Album and Album Artist fields.
For Album Artist on compilation CDs, I usually use "Various Artists". Then each track has the actual artist...such as the soundtrack to Garden State has
Album=Garden State
Album Artist = Various Artists
Track 1 Artist = Coldplay
Track 2 Artist = The Shins
and so on.
Make sure the "track 1 of 13" fields are also filled in.
That should get them grouped together.
Article on that:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1468
That article is for itunes 7. The Compilation box has moved to the Options tab in itunes 8.