Album/track consolidation

Help. I have an HP Pavilion with VISTA recently installed. I just want to consolidate all my tracks that belong to one album on just one album. I have tracks scattered about with the matching album artwork. I might have an album with one track listed and the the same album with two more tracks. I have tried to consolidate the tracks but nothing happens. This is driving me crazy.

Not sure exactly what is causing your particular problem, but you could try this:
1. Select all the tracks that you want to be grouped together as one album (hold Control on the keyboard while clicking on each track, if they are all spread out)
2. Right-click one of the selected tracks and choose Get Info from the menu that appears.
3. Type the name of the Artist and Album into the appropriate boxes and press OK.
I have had similar problems. This can happen if the files have similar but slightly different artist or album names, like: "The White Album" vs. "The White Album ", notice that the only difference is the space at the end of the second version.
Does that help/make sense?

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My 3GS iPhone has my music on it in the form of whole albums which live in individual playlists on my Mac, but I also have playlist 'mixes' which I've created from various songs from multiple albums.
When selecting to play a 'mixed' playlist on my iPhone I tap on it, tap the first song to start the music playing, but then if I tap the top right 'track list' button, instead of showing all the tracks in my created playlist it just shows the entire album tracks from where this particular song has come from. Visually I prefer the 'track list' screen but it seems I can't use it if I'm playing a 'mixed' playlist. Is there any way around this?
Also, this is the same if I have a double CD album: once I hit the 'track list' button it shows just CD 1 (or 2 if I'm further down the play list of course), rather than all the tracks even though on they all live in one single playlist on my iTunes. I've even taken the starts of the track names off (some of them start with '1_01 Song Title' for example) when importing them into iTunes to see if that helps but it doesn't: the iPhone KNOWS how that track was originally supplied!
Any help or clarification on this would be very helpful!
Markos

sadly, that kind of customization is only easily doable on a computer. the iPhone and it's core apps can not be changed by users. you can request the feature be put in, but unless there are a LOT of requests, you shouldn't get your hopes up as there are a lot of these kinds of requests, and by implementing it, how many other users would be angry and demand it be changed back? http://www.apple.com/feedback/
if you are playing a song that you selected in a playlist, you should be able to hit the 'back' button in the top left to go back to the playlist and view your songs in the playlist.
in regards to the 'cd 1 of 2' thing, you will need to change your song info to get this to show in the format you want. to see the song info, select a song and go to 'file -> get info'. that will show you all of the ID3 tag information, which you can edit to do whatever you want.

Some of my downloaded albums tracks have been stored in my iTunes library in separate places, how do I complie them into a complete album?

Some of my downloaded album tracks have been stored in my iTunes library in separate places, how do I compile them together to form a complete album?

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

I just bought and downloaded an album. the album/tracks are NOT found in my music listing alongside every other track i have purchased! however, they are found and playable in the recently added playlist. plz help

i just bought and downloaded an album. the album/tracks are NOT found in my music library alongside every other track i have purchased! however, they are found and playable in the recently added playlist. in addition, when using the search queue in the upper right corner, the artist and album is listed when searched for, but when clicked on, nothung happens. i have downloaded hundreds of tracks with no issue (not a noob), but have no idea what has occurred...plz help

Have you checked whether the songs are in your iTunes library? If they are, then just drag them to your purchased playlist. If they aren't, try checking for available downloads.
If none of the previous work, then get in contact directly with iTunes store support to tell them about your problem.

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I basically spend 8 hr a day listening to iTunes and I have a really frustrating issue that I can't imagine should be as difficult to get around - but I can't seem to figure it out.
I buy quite a bit of music either through emusic, itunes or cd's. Since I had probably 1/2 dozen albums a week, I ideally want to open itunes and just start listening to the last album I imported (in order) followed by the 2nd most recent album, etc -- and ideally listen for my entire workday. The problem is multifaceted:
1. Emusic automatically imports music I download. It processes them in reverse order, which is good since it makes song #1 the most recent "date added" which allows me to sort by "date added" and listen in order. Unfortunately, since it processes multiple songs at a time, shorter songs beat the song before it -- and it makes a mess of the track order. They get numbered correctly, but they're "date added" are incorrect -- which messes up my listening order.
2. When I import a CD, it starts at track 1 -- making it impossible to use the "dated added"field as a sort.
3. I believe Itunes acts like a cd on importing, so again the order is bungled.
I have about 6,000 songs so I don't think it's feasible to change each CD one by one, but I can't imagine there isn't some way to just listen to my newest album, in order, then my next newest, etc.
Does anyone know if there's a way to do this? I can't imagine I'm the only person who listens to music this way. Right now, I wind up filtering to the album, sorting by track, and listening to CD's one by one. I can get through like 20 albums in a day, so this it makes it really tought to get into a flow at work.
This has bothered me for well over a year, and I've searched many discussion groups and haven't come across any similar threads -- so I decided to just ask flat out.
Any help would be incredible, thank you.

hmmm... I didn't realize that was an option, but that definitely helps. I guess part two can be to request emusic to NOT IMPORT automatically, and I can just load the tracks in reverse order.
Of course that helps moving forward, but I guess I'm stuck with out of order imports on the existing library (not the end of the world).
I really wish Itunes would allow a secondary sort to allow us to sort albums and just leave the track numbers alone -- I'd say 99% of the time, people want the album tracks in order, so it's silly to have most of the sort options mess with that order.

Album track order in iTunes

Hello, I have a problem with a few downloaded albums.
I had downloaded album tracks off the net into album folders in My Music. The tracks were numbered. After importing the albums (folders) into my iTunes library, & updating my iPod with those, I see that in both the iPod & iTunes the tracks are in the wrong order. They are however, in correct order in their folders (in MY Music).
Any ideas how I can remedy this?

Try this, I found that it works for me. Right click at the top of any column in your iTunes library and choose **Track Number** from the list. Click at the top of this new column to sort it and after that click on the Album column. If you like you can then click on Artist which is how I prefer mine ordered, it will continue to hold the track order as well. Afterwards anything you import should follow this arrangement Artist>Album>Track Number within Album (you can hide the track number column when you've done if you don't want it cluttering up the view)

Sort by Artist - Album - Track Number

I could use some help pls. I have recently reinstalled and now all of a sudden iTunes is acting stupid. I want to sort by Artist -> Album -> Track Number. What is happening is it's sorting by Artist -> Album but the Track Numbers are backwards (listed 10 to 1).
Before you say it, it is NOT a tag issue!! I just spent the last two hours staring at a single album. Every instance of artist/album artist/disk x of y/year/genre/etc/etc are IDENTICAL. Every instance of everything that is not unique is absolutely identical!!
As a side note...does anyone know why Apple refuses to fix the bug in iTunes where mouse wheel scrolling has never worked?
Thanks...

Click on the Artist album header.
In the right side of the Artist album column header is a small triangle.
Click it so it points up. This will sort the albums track 1 thru track 10.
If the trianlge is pointing down, it will sort track 10 to track 1.
I click Artist with the arrow DEscending.
It's a triangle, not an arrow. The top of the triangle is smaller and the bottom is larger, just like the sort. Or vice-versa.
This used to automatically sort each Album under each Artist and within each Album the Tracks would be sorted numerically (1->10).
No, it has never worked as you suggest.
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Issue with artists with one album an non album tracks.

Here is my issue:
on the ipod I should see this:
music > artists > THE ARTIST > All or Album1
That's the logical order, but this is what my iPod does
music > artists > THE ARTIST > Album1
I know I have tracks that are not a part of Album1 ( I see them when I view the whole song listing). My ipod skips the screen where I could normally choose All or Album1. Everything works fine if I have more than one album, but for these artists with one album and a few non album tracks its not right.
Sorry if this is posted elsewhere. It's and odd request and wasn't sure how to search for it.
Some HP Laptop Windows XP

I know I have tracks that are not a part of Album1 (
I see them when I view the whole song listing). My
ipod skips the screen where I could normally choose
All or Album1. Everything works fine if I have more
than one album, but for these artists with one album
and a few non album tracks its not right.
If no information is entered into the album field for the singles of a given artist, enter [Assorted Singles] or just [Singles] I use the [ so that all I have to do is hit that key and the entry is automatically completed by iTunes. It treats it as an album title. With any singles I have labeled for an artist in that way they show up under "ALL" as well as [Assorted Singles] for the artist.

Next album track not playing automatically

When I listen to my music on I Tunes the next album track does not come on automatically. Can anyone advise me what I need to do please - presumably soemthing to do with the settings ?

Are the tracks unchecked perhaps? Unchecked tracks are skipped during normal playback but can be played individually.
Alternatively, if you're in shuffle mode and all tracks have "Skip when shuffling" selected then once the first track completes nothing else should play.
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5310 Album Track Order

I've got a 5310 with the Comes With Music package. I've downloaded some albums, but they seem to be listed and playing in a random order (Shuffle is off), not the order of the album. Is there a way to fix this?

The problem appears to be with the order you put the songs onto the phone in. The only solution I've found is to remove all the songs from the album on the phone, then add them back on in the order that they are in the album.
This only appears to be a problem with WMAs (The file format used by the songs downloaded from Nokia Music Store).
I have tried the same thing with MP3s, adding them on to the phone out of order from the album, and they are played in the correct order.
This therefore leads me to conclude that the 5310 cannot read all the tags correctly from the WMA format files, which would allow it to sort the album tracks by the track number. Some other information missing when looking at a WMA file on the phone is Year and Genre information which can be viewed in MP3s on the phone. This means that the Genres list on the phone doesn't list anything for the WMAs. I am a little disappointed about the poor support for WMAs, especially when the tracks downloaded from the Nokia Music Store are in WMA format, surely the phone should properly suppor this format, especially when the 5310 is supplied with the Comes With Music package.
I have to say Nokia support have been excellent in the speed and response of their communications over e-mail. I have been discussing it with them for the past couple of weeks and they have forwarded my summary above to the relevant department. Hopefully something will be fixed in future. Although creating playlists is a solution (And something that was recommended by Nokia) in reality this would take an awful long time with 50+ albums on my phone and the speed of navigation through the songs, so the best way is to remove the songs and add them on again. Hope this helps.

Album track order

How does one ensure that album tracks appear in their true original order and apply this throughout your whole library?

Each track has a track number field which can be filled in. Right click any track, and select 'Get Info' - one of the pages there will have a 'Track X of Y' field. If these are filled in, when you sort your library by Album, tracks will be listed by album, then by track number in their album.

Album Tracks

iTunes has changed the track order of two new albums. I've gone into get info and verified that the track numbers are correct (1 of 10, 2 of 10, etc), but in the library and on my ipod they are in a different order. How do I change the order of album tracks in my library?

mureid,
The track tags in the info are simply for reference relating to the original album. iTunes isn't bound by that, and can arrange the tracks however you wish. If you have a playlist in which the tracks of an album are out of order, go to that playlist, click the box that's to the left of "Name" (in the sorting row, which usually contains "Name", "Album", "Artist", etc.) After clicking once in the black sort box, you'll be able to drag tracks around until they're in whatever order you'd like them to be in.
Give it a try and let me know if it doesn't address what you were asking about.

How can I convert Itunes video albums tracks to ipod tracks

How can I convert Itunes video albums tracks to ipod tracks?

3pg is an odd format... That or I just never seen it before. :P
iTunes just ***** at converting videos. So far all videos I tried converting with iTunes have resulted in the same error you got.
You're better-off using 3rd party apps, and then copying to iTunes, and then copying to the iPod.
Unfortunately I don't know of any conversion programs for Windows.
If you by chance have a mac, this program works great: http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/video/flv2itunes.html
The mac version of Handbrake below works great, hopefully the Windows version does, too:
http://handbrake.fr/?article=download
When converting with handbrake, make sure to use the iPod preset for the out-put video.
Hope this helps a little.

Artists with one album + non-album tracks, non-album tracks vanish

usually, the menu structure is artist > all/albums > songs. but when there is only one album for an artist, ipod goes artist > songs directly.
this would be a handy timesaver, but it's problematic if you have one album and a bunch of non-album tracks for a particular artist, as ipod seems to want to pretend the non-album tracks don't exist. i don't want to make up album names for non-album tracks, cause altho it would fix browsing-by-artist, it would screw up browsing-by-album.
i suspect this is a bug and not a handy timesaver; my last ipod never did this, and also this ipod (like my last one) still (extremely annoyingly) makes you select "all" for artists for which i just have non-artist tracks (i.e., i get a screen where the only option is to select "all", which is stupid, and crying out for remedy).
is there a fix? also, is there a way to make ipod skip the "all" screen when it's redundant?
sorry if already asked and answered.
PC Windows XP with visual interface

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Those songs have to have the album info entered. This is the way it is for newer (5G and nano) iPods.
As for the all screen, no, you can't do anything.
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ITunes lists my album tracks backwards

I'm using iTunes 7 on my new 24" iMac but I noticed it lists my album tracks backwards. For example, when I go to the middle Album view, it lists all of my albums with all of the tracks in that album, but they are numbered last to first as you read top to bottom. This not only looks weird, but it prevents me from playing a whole album continuously from beginning to end. Thanks for any help you can give me.

Hi, Ixnayx51.
Have you tried clicking the Track # column heading to assure the tracks are in ascending order by track number? Likewise, in Album View, clicking the Album column heading label repeatedly will put all albums in ascending order by album and related fields, as well as by track number within album.
If the Track # column is not displayed, Control-click any column heading and select it from the resulting contextual menu.
FYI: iTunes questions should be posted on the iTunes Discussion.
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