Album tracks separated in iTunes

I have ripped many of my compact disks iniTunes. However, many compact disk tracks gets separated into multiple albums iniTunes, rather than remaining all together in one album. How do I correct this, and how do I stop it from happening in the future?

http://samsoft.org.uk/iTunes/grouping.asp - Turingtest2's iTunes artwork grouping web site.

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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)

Fix track order on itunes 11

Please please please can anybody help me sort out album track order in iTunes 11!?! After I upgraded, the track order on hundreds of my albums became jumbled and there doesn't seem to be any rationale or pattern to this jumbling. As far as I can see, every album that is numbered 01, 02, 03 etc (as opposed to simply 1, 2, 3 etc) is jumbled. I've asked two individual iTunes support people for information and/or suggestions - one didnt respond; the other's response was that I should use the fee-based AppleCare system. Why in the name of all that's holy should I be referred to a paid service when it's Apple's own upgrades that has caused problems that previously didn't exist!?! Everything was fine on iTunes 10. After the most recent iPhone and iPad upgrade, Home Sharing doesn't work on those devices. And, apart from other aspects of iTunes 11, every time I now reduce to the dock, I have to Quit, wait a moment, then start iTunes all over again before the window will come back up for me. My faith in Apple is dwindling by the day ... Anyhow - any help with the jumbled track-order issue will be much appreciated, thanks.

This excellent article from turingtest may help you.
http://samsoft.org.uk/iTunes/grouping.asp

I think some tracks on my iTunes library have shortened has anyone experience of this and remedy

I am sure that a few album tracks on my iTunes library have shortened their original play length -has anyone experienced or heard of this happening before ?if so what is the remedy if any. All tracks were originally loaded from genuine original CDs

Hi,
You will need to keep the number of the tracks below 25K. One option is to delete tacks and remove from your library.
If you wish to keep the files in your itunes library, you can manage the itunes match library by creating a second blank library.
You create a second library by holding shift key and choose create new library from pop up box. The name of library usually defaults to itunes1 ( you can rename if you wish). The library will be completely blank until you sign into the iTunes Store and activate match. You will be asked to add this computer. Do so. Once match process is completed you will now see all music that has been matched, uploaded or purchased. Each track will have download icon and you will be able to stream music.
If you delete the track you will get a message telling that it has been deleted from the cloud and any associated devices that you use for streaming but it is important to note that the track has not been deleted from your hard drive.
To verify this log out of iTunes, relaunch holding option key and select original library from pop up. You library will be as before I.e total number in your library has not changed.
You should have iCloud status column added to song view - this tells you if tracks have been matched, uploaded, purchased, duplicate, ineligible and more importantly "removed". The tracks deleted from second library will have iCloud status as removed. Match will ignore this in future scans. Track is still available on your hard drive.
Doing this will enable you to keep all you music in your itunes library on your computer. Whilst the "removed" tracks will be on your computer, they will not be available on ipad.
Jim

HT1451 How do I consolidate album songs in my itunes library? The songs are showing up separately under the same album cover.

How do I consolidate album songs in my itunes library? The songs are showing up separately under the same album cover.

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.
BTW, are you really still using Windows 2000?
tt2

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

TS1424 the tracks are skipping on the last two albums i purchased on itunes. it isn't a disk problem. definitely in the download.

the tracks are skipping on the last two albums i bought from itunes. it isn't a problem with the disk burning, when i play the albums in itunes the skips are even though it said the dowload had been successful.

Welcome to the Apple Community.
Try deleting the problematic file (electing to remove original file if/when prompted) and then re-downloading the file from the iTunes store.
You can re-download content purchased from the iTunes store (availability varies depending on location) using the purchased option from the Quick Links section in the top right corner of the iTunes homepage in your iTunes application on your computer.
You can re-download content purchased from the iTunes store (availability varies depending on location) using the purchased option at the bottom of the screen of the iTunes app (or video app) on your iOS device.
If the problem re-occurs, select the content which is causing a problem and use the 'Report a problem' button in Your Purchase History using your computer.

ITunes Album Track Order

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.

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.

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.
Good luck!
Dr. Smoke
Author: Troubleshooting Mac® OS X

Gaps within itune album tracks when played on ipod

I seem to get the between track break a few seconds into each new track on an album downloaded from itunes - so will crossfade from last to next track without a break then a few seconds into the new track a 1 second silence then continues. Same album plays fine in itunes. Imported CD's play fine both in itunes and on he ipod. Have tried a mixture of crossfade settings without effect. Any clues?
Dell 8600 Windows XP

Thx Gary, tried your suggestion - now have 1 file, alas still with a 1 second break a few seconds into each new track.
Hello krikit,
Welcome to Apple Discussions.
Unfortunately, the songs you download from ITMS will
always have gaps, because they are also sold
individually. Playing in iTunes, you probably don't
notice the gaps, but it is more noticeable so in the
iPod, because the iPod has to load the song into
memory cache before playing.
One thing you can try is select those songs and burn
a CD. Then, when importing back into iTunes, select
all the songs on the CD and, in the Advanced menu,
select Join CD Tracks.
Gary
Dell 8600 Windows XP

ITunes Match Error - ineligeable for album track

iTunes Match has worked well for c1560 of 1680 tracks in my library. However, several were shown as 'waiting iMatch response'. Most have been resolved by individually selecting the track, right click and 'add to iCloud'. Strangely before completion several started to return 'ineligeable' for no apparent reason. A great example is a track from a re-mastered Dire Straits album originally purchased from iTunes - all other tracks are shown in the iCloud except one. On playing the track and requesting 'Add to iCloud' the response is to show status as 'ineligeable', why? Any ideas on how to remedy much appreciated.

Not a solution but ... just for this track, I've purchased it a second time from iTunes Store - it downloaded without the usual prompt that 'you already have this track' - it was immediately shown as in iCloud. On selecting the original track once again and repeating the steps above it was readily accepted.
It does look like the iMatch service is in need of serious testing since the track here is clearly eligeable as but one in the album where all others have successfully made it to the cloud.
My original question stands since there are several more tracks, all purchased originally from iTunes that still show as ineligeable, why? Ideas on how to remedy very mcuh appreciated.

Same Album Different Section Of Itunes

Hi,
In Itunes, i have put a few songs by the band i am in - when i have edited all the information to be exactly the same and click on the respective album to just show these songs they are in 3 different sections (as if it were 3 different albums) rather than all being in one list.
How can i get them into one album as such? Itunes says there is only one album there but it shows them separately.
Thanks

Try selecting all the songs at same time before doing 'get info'. When the editing window opens with multiple songs selected only fields that are the same on all selected tracks will be filled in when window opens. After opening window type in the album name in appropriate field.
What happens sometimes is that there are extra spaces in tags. The program sees them but we may not.

When importing songs of a same album but different artist iTunes will separate the artists. How can I bring all together in the same album?

When importing songs of a same album but different artist iTunes will separate the artists. How can I bring all together in the same album?

Generally setting a common Album Artist will fix things. For deeper problems see Grouping tracks into albums.
tt2

Is there a way for me to "gift" or send an album download from my iTunes account to my daughter in another city?

Is there a way for me to "gift" or send an album download from my iTunes account to my daughter in another city?

This is not a law forum but technically I think your daughter is supposed to own her own copy, not a second copy of the track you bought. In that regard it would be best to use Apple's gifting service to give her the track.
iTunes Gifts - http://www.apple.com/itunes/gifts/

Album tracks separated in iTunes

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