Album import not staying together

When I import an album to my library and onto the IPOD Nano the Library does not put all the tracks into a single album. Can I manually drag all the songs into an album so the library stores it that way and I can sync onto the IPOD ? I'm using software 1.0.4
I saw a "manual manage music and videos" potion but don't want to select that without more info. Any help appreciated.

Perhaps this excellent article from another forum member turingtest2 can be of assistance.
http://samsoft.org.uk/iTunes/grouping.asp
B-rock

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Albums not staying together

I don't know what I am doing wrong but for some reason I cannot format all of the songs from the same album to end up on the same album on my iPod.

check out this thread link below it might help you out some. It worked for me. http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2399172&tstart=15

Songs with the same album art not grouped together in iTunes for Windows

Brand new iTunes user here - do not yet have an iPod! (Needed some music only on iTunes)
When I first started up iTunes, it imported all of my music I already had on my computer. A few of them are soundtracks with different artists.
When they are shown in the iTunes library, the soundtracks have been broken up by Artist instead of staying as a whole album. How do I get the songs back together as one album? I found the folder on my computer where they are stored and combined them there, but they are still separate in the iTunes library.
Thanks from a total newbie!

Mark the tracks on the album as "Part of a compilation" and fill in the Album Artist field as "Various Artists". Click on the first track of your album to highlight it, hold down the shift key and click on the last track to highlight everything in between. Right click on the selection and choose Get Info. You'll get a message asking if you want to edit multiple items, say yes. If you are using iTunes 8 in the box that opens go to the Options tab and change "part of a compilation" to Yes and choose OK.
Also in your library click on the title bar of album column to bring all the tracks in the same album together. If you keep clicking in the title you can choose it to sort by Album, Album by Artist or Album by Year. Clicking on the little triangle on the right side of the column header changes the sort direction. Pointing up and the column is sorted in Ascending order (A to Z). Pointing down and the column is sorted in Descending order (Z to A).
You can also have a look at this article: Why aren't songs with the same album art grouped together

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I've made an album from several pictures I've uploaded to iPhoto '11 (version 9.1.5) and plan to continue adding to it throughout the year. I want the pictures to be in a specific order, but it seems that whenever I quit the program, the next time I log in, they've rearranged themselves randomly.
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Barb1955,
When and how did this happen? What were you doing, when you first noticed, that your photos are missing? Were you installing or upgrading software? Running maintainance scripts, cleaner applications? Importing new photos? Or did iPhoto crash all of a sudden? Has the size of your photo library changed? Is iPhoto the only program that is having trouble?
Does your iPhoto Library still contain your photos? Quit iPhoto, select the iPhoto Libary in the Finder (by default it is in your "Pictures" folder), ctrl-click the library and select "Show package contents" from the pop-up menu. In the Finder window that opens, look for folders named "Masters","Previews, "Originals", "Modified". Do you see any image files inside the subfolders of these folders?
If your photos are still inside your photo library, then try to repair rebuild the library. Check, if you have a backup of your iphoto library, before you rebuild; if not, make first a backup.
Then launch the library first aid panel by firmly pressing and holding the ⌥⌘-keys, while double clicking the iPhoto icon . Hold the keys down, until you see the panel. Then select "Rebuild database" from the panel.
Regards
Léonie

Songs from multi-disk compilations not staying together

I have been trying to consolidate songs from multi-disk compilations together so that one album designation contains all the songs from say a two disk collection. I have gone into the info for each song and changed the track number and disk number to coorespond to their place in line. The problem is that on occasion one or more songs will not go with the compilation but make another album by the same name containing these stray songs. I have tried but cannot get the songs back into the main album with the rest of the tracks. Anyone have a suggestion?????

See my previous post on Grouping Tracks Into Albums, in particular the topics One album, still too many covers and One cover for multi-disc album.
tt2

Downloaded album tracks not being together...

i have downloaded an album, and for some reason instead of all the fourteen tracks appearing together in sequence, as normal, they have appeared as if in two separate albums, how can i rectify this?

And if that doesn't work for you (I just got a page not found error) then try my previous post on Grouping Tracks Into Albums, in particular the topic One album, too many covers.
tt2

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When clcking open with, I tunes does not show , only other lications like media. quick time. VMC , but not I tunes. Why is this , how to convert?

I have been importing my CD collection over the past several months. Last night iTunes quit getting the track and album info from Gracenote CDDB. I just fixed the problem a few minutes ago.
Go to Gracenotes and follow their instructions for "Registration Errors Messages and Updates" You download their little software program, close iTunes, and run their program and it fixed the problem for me. I hope this helps.
http://www.gracenote.com/company_info/FAQ/FAQs/
**3. Registration, Error Messages, and Updates.**
**A. When registering or using an application for the first time, I get an error.**
**1. Common Error Messages: Open Socket Fail, CDDB Server Cannot Be Found, Bad Syntax, CDDB Error: HTTP Processing Error, Internal Error: Unsupported Compression Scheme, Decompression Failed.**
**Registration is only done through the software application itself and should occur when you first play a CD. We recommend the following three tactics that may help you if registration is not working.**
**1. Go to this page and follow the directions: http://www.gracenote.com/developer/update/. This will update Gracenote's registration. Registration, after making the update, does not request username or other personal details. It requires only an acceptance of our specific terms of use. We recommend that you try this first, even if you have the latest registration.**

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After updating my Touch to the new 1.1.4, the album view will reset to the top of the list when moving in and out of the list to view other items. That view use to stay where you last were when you moved to other pages, now it won't on mine. This problem has cropped up in different update versions. Some fixed them while others brought it back.
Anyone else have this problem?

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Artwork for my vinyl albums will not stay installed in iTunes.

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xlane

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http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=8537277

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How do you get your album's songs to stay together when you put them on your ipod/iphone, when some songs have a ft. artist?
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tt2

My source file does not stay in the same order when imported to Target

Hi Gurus,
I am importing a file using the LKM to SQL to a target datastore on Oracle. I am using the IKM SQL Control Append but my problem is in my target datastore the order that the flat file is in is not longer together. I added a ROWNUM column and triggered a sequence but the order from the flat file is still not the same as the table. I need the order to remain the same b/c during the load to Planning it holds the metadata order correctly.
Could someone give me a suggestion.
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Mike

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I have two albums (RCA Sweeny Todd 2 discs set and RCA Into the Woods 1 disc) where the songs are listed as being on the same album on the list view, but do not group together on the iPod, so the songs can't play consecutively, or in the proper order.

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UPDATE: This behavior (to an extent) still happens when "Repeat Album" is off. Instead of an infinite loop, it goes through all the tracks on the album (unsuccessfully) and kicks me out to the Album overview screen. Going back to list of Albums and tapping the Album again brings up "No Content: You can download music from the iTunes Store" but that screen immediately kicks me back to list of Albums.
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I have the 2nd Gen iPad and imported my photos from my computer to my iPad awhile back. Now I'd like to sync it to new MacBook Pro and my albums are not showing up? Anyone know how to fix this?

I have the 2nd Gen iPad and imported my photos from my computer to my iPad awhile back. Now I'd like to sync it to new MacBook Pro and my albums are not showing up? Anyone know how to fix this?

You'll have to transfer them from the pc to the mac.
There are some options
Importing personal photos & videos from device to your computer
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4083?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US
Managing photos/videos
Iphoto app for iOS
http://www.apple.com/support/ios/iphoto/
photo manager pro
https://itunes.apple.com/sg/app/photo-manager-pro/id393858562?mt=8
Photo transfer app
http://www.phototransferapp.com
Dropbox
https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTMzMjg0NjkzOQ?src=global9
Picasa
http://picasa.google.com
photo manager pro
https://itunes.apple.com/sg/app/photo-manager-pro/id393858562?mt=8

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When I import cds to itunes, the albums do not contain all songs. If there is a duet, each duet is listed as a separate album.
As an example," Genius Loves Company" or "Tuskegee" each are listed as many albums---each album has a separate song.
I spoke to Apple Help and they were of some help, but did not answer the question.

Unfortunately you've discovered too late how important it is to maintain an up-to-date backup of your iTunes library (and all other data of value). You could, before wiping the drive, have considered making use of a commercial data recovery service that could (albeit at considerable cost) have extracted your library from the hard disk, even if virus infected.
In the absence of that option, you will need to restore the content of your library from its original sources:
Depending on your location, you may be able to re-download any iTunes Store purchases that are still available on the Store
Likewise, most digital purchases from Amazon (including auto-rip copies of purchased CDs) should be available from the Amazon Cloud and via the Amazon Music application - the same may be true of other commercial sources for digital downloads
Content imported from your CDs will have to imported again
The specific situation that you describe regarding the music imported from your friend's external HDD suggests that either the source is badly organized and/or originates from a source other than iTunes (other media players may use alternative tags for information like artist, title, album, etc. that are not wholly consistent with how iTunes handle these). Without details of the issues you're seeing it is difficult to suggest a remedy other than going through the media album-by-album, track-by-track, and correcting the inconsistencies.
In the absence of a backup or access to the original library data there is no option other than painstakingly recreating your library as described above. As you do so, you'll now realize how important creating and maintaining backups are - in my case I have at all times three separate duplicates of my library, in two different locations, where none is ever more than a week old compared to the content of my master library.

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See Grouping tracks into albums.
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