Albums show up as two albums

I've just updated to Itunes 11, and am wondering if there is an easy way to make these albums show up properly as one. To be clear, one album will be randomly split up into 2, or even three separate albums. Thanks :-)

See this page: iTunes: Grouping Tracks Into Albums
There may be a problem withguest artists or wrong sort-album, sort artist, collection tags.

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Cover flow albums show songs from multiple albums

I love my iPod classic. the only issue I'm having is that when reviewing some albums via the coverflow feature, about 5 albums shows songs from multiple albums. they play correctly. It appears just the listing is messed up. I've tried deleting, adding the albums back to the library and resyncing, but it's still happening. Anybody seen this?

Try *One cover, too many tracks* below:
*HowTo: Grouping Tracks Into Albums*
Excuse the long post, but hopefully covering all the bases (that I can think of) will help you fix the other issues you are likely to run into as you try to organise your iTunes library.
*Use an album friendly view*
iTunes will let you sort music on many columns, some of which are unlikely to group albums together or put the tracks in their normal order. The most useful order for editing the library is probably *Album by Artist*. If you're not already there, select the list view and click on the column heading for Artist until it reads Album by Artist.
*One cover, too many tracks*
The iPod (and iTunes to a lesser extent) conflates two or more albums with the same title, most obviously with *Greatest Hits*. On the iPod this can result in one album acting as a combination of two or more. Selecting any cover gives all the tracks of all albums with the same title. The workaround for this "Greatest Hits" bug is to give each album a unique title - I tend to go for *Album - Album Artist* as this reads clearly in the iTunes browser. Alternatively you could use the wording as it appears on the cover or append different numbers of spaces for each different album. Somewhat oddly, setting different values for Sort Album doesn't work.
*Missing Artist or Album not with others by same artist*
iTunes relies on the Gracenote CDDB database when identifying CD's. This often marks collections or anthologies of an artist's work as a compilation. In iTunes, however, the compilation flag has the logical function of grouping together tracks with the same album name, but different artists on each track, e.g. "Now That's What I Call Metal 666!". These compilations are then all grouped together at the end of cover flow. Most of us however, would expect "Greatest Hits" albums to be listed with the other albums by the same album artist. For albums which are essentially by a single album artist or group it is best to set the appropriate value for the album artist and clear the compilation flag.
*One album, too many covers*
For true compilations, where each track is by a different artist, the answer is to set the compilation flag to true and enable the iTunes preference to *Group compilations when browsing*. If the album is not a compilation however, any tracks which list guest artists may be treated as separate items. Filling in the Album Artist field is enough to link things in iTunes. Sadly, however, the iPod ignores the Album Artist field when grouping albums so this is only a partial solution. You can simply mark the entire album as a compilation which seems to be the way iTMS handles it, however that's not an ideal fix. Short of waiting for Apple to address this issue (and as far as I can tell it goes back to the 1st gen. of iPods) we need a workaround. What I do is to put any additional artist info. in square brackets after the song name. E.g. *Track \[Feat. Guest\]* and then set *Artist=Album Artist* for each track. For anthologies where the Album Artist is credited as part of another group, e.g. for Cream tracks on an Eric Clapton anthology, I use *Track \[As Group\]*. For a track where the main Album Artist doesn't receive a credit, e.g. the first track of the Slim Shady LP credited to Jeff Bass, I just set the track name to *Track \[Guest\]* while still setting the artist to the album artist. N.b. I use square brackets to indicate that this is information about the track as distinct from the song title and also use this style for Mix/Live/Bonus info.
*One album, still too many covers*
iTunes may split albums into two or more sections if some tracks from the album have different values for Artist, Album Artist, Album, No. of Discs or Part of a Compilation. Tiny differences such as trailing spaces, accented characters or variants of symbols can sometimes be quite hard to spot. The iPod is also more sensitive to case variations and may split or reorder an album that looks okay in iTunes. Normally overtyping the desired value for each shared field will complete the grouping of the album into one entity. Occasionally, however, this method seems to fail. When this happens I've found that you can force every field to update properly by adding some extra text - e.g. a trailing X, which once applied seems to complete the joining of the tracks into one album. Once this has happened the extra data can be removed and the album should remain properly grouped.
*Tried that, there are STILL too many covers!*
The Sort Artist, Sort Album & Sort Album Artist fields can be used to override the normal sort order. For example iTunes automatically drops leading articles (a/an/the) so "The Beatles" are arranged under "B" instead of "T". Occasionally different tracks from the same album can have different values in these sort fields which can also break up the grouping. Making the sort columns visible in iTunes can help with spotting & correcting such problems.
*One cover for multi-disc album*
Multi-disc albums are often listed as *Album (CD1)* for CD 1, *Album (CD2)* for CD 2 etc. To display these properly using just one cover, each disc should have the correct *Disc X of Y* values set, and then the entire album should be given the single title Album. Being somewhat obsessive I also renumber the tracks sequentially, working backwards from the last track (so that no two tracks ever have the same number) until I reach disc 1. BTW You can still give the individual discs different artwork should it be relevant so that the correct artwork will be displayed as the album progresses.
*One artist, many names*
With some artists, particularly classical composers, you should be aware of alternative representations of their names. E.g. 2Pac vs. Tupac. The menus will work best if for each artist you standardise on just one form of their name. E.g. make a choice between Mozart, W.A. Mozart or Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and then apply it consistently. For classical music I tend also to use the Composer as the Artist & Album Artist and either discard the performer details or place these into the Comments field.
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Compilation album shows up as many albums

when imported, some compilation albums show up as many albums per artist. How can I get al the tracks showing up in one album? I already tried the "belong to one album"option, but it doesn;t work.

Hi, welcome to Apple Discussions.
See Grouping Tracks Into Albums, in particular the topic One Album, Too Many Covers.
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Tracks in Album show up as separate albums

Some of my albums in iTunes show up as seperate albums (with same name).. this is most noticeable when looked at on iPhone. How do I get this re-grouped so on iPhone I can listen to whole album and not have to play each track seperatly? And without making a playlist for each album..
running iTunes 10.4 on iMac. iPhone 4 with all current updates.

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.
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I have extra tracks of the same song,plus extra albums showing of the same album in their relevant lists how can i remove the extra ones safely?.

Please advise, i have somehow downloaded some extra tracks of the same songs, plus their relavant albums showing in songs/albums lists on my ipod nano 7th gen,how can i remove the unwanted extra songs/albums safely. Please note i am a newcomer to using a ipod nano/uploading,downloading music.

Hi Myketyke,
Welcome to the Support Communities!
Since you are syncing your iPod nano to your computer, the best option is to remove the duplicates from the iTunes library on your computer. Then resync your device. The article below will show you how:
How to find and remove duplicate items in your iTunes library
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2905
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How do I sync an album that downloaded into two albums into one album?

I downloaded the album La Musica No se Toca onto my windows computer and synched it to my ipad.
The problem is the first song by the same title appears as its own album.
Of course, I want to hear the song with the rest of the album.
I've tried using the "info" tab and marking "yes" this is part of a compilation, but to no avail.
What am I doing wrong?

Make sure that at least one of the following is true:
the values of the Artist and Album fields for all songs are identical (standard for any album where all songs are by the same artist)
the values of the Album Artist and Album fields for all songs are identical (used for cases where one artist is responsible for the album, but some tracks may have variations to note guest performers, etc.)
the value of the Album field is identical, and the "Album is a compilation ..." flag is set for all songs (one possible approach to handing compilation albums of tracks by multiple artists)
Its also a good idea to check that the values of Sort Album and Sort Artist or Sort Album Artist are set identically.
Note that iTunes 12 seems to be more sensitive than previous releases in the way that it does grouping - for example, its possible that stray spaces or non-printing characters may disrupt grouping. If it seems that one or more of the rules above are satisfied, but the album is still not correctly grouped, try selecting all the tracks, right-click > Get Info, and add a couple of "dummy" characters (e.g., "xx") to the end of the Artist, Album Artist (if used) and Album fields. If this results in the songs being correctly grouped, re-edit the album information and remove the "dummy" characters - hopefully the correct grouping should be preserved.

Why does my music from one album show up as two separate albums: one with all the songs in it, and another with two or three. Why is it that when i delete the incomplete album it takes the same songs out of the complete album also?

When I first imported music from my CDs onto my iTunes library, all the songs appeared, but those with the album artist and guest/additional artists they appeared in their own album under the same album name. After searching through iTunes help and support, I learned how to put all the songs under the same album (part of a compalition) and add the additional songs information, artwork, lyrics, etc. After getting all the music (imported from my CDs) onto the iTunes library and in their album. I synced my music onto my iPhone. (My iPhone is a 3GS)
Once the music was on my iPhone i noticed that the albums appeared in 2s again. One was the complete album with all the songs, song info, etc. together (solo tracks and/or one with multiple artists) and another album of the same name, artwork, etc. with 2-4 of the songs from that album. Since all I saw need for was to have the completed album on my iPhone, I deleted the album with only 2-4 of the songs. When I went back and selected the completed album, all the songs I had deleted from the incomplete album were also deleted from the completed album too! I just couldn't figure out why it did that and my my friends with iPods and iPhones said they didn't know what caused it either. So now I'm here with the idea how to fix this problem.
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I'm not sure why this happens, but I found a workaround. Below the album title it will list the artist(s). The issue seems to happen when there are multiple artists. For example, an Album titled "Over the Sea to Skye" has The Chieftains and James Galway as artists. Some tracks (for whatever reason) will list only one of these and result in the playlist showing what appears to be multiple albums. You can click on the artists and it will highlight. Paste in what is appearing on the other "albums" and it will then show as one:
Hope that is somewhat clear enough to help. Doesn't fix whatever the issue is but it is a workaround. For me this is only happening with CD's that I have imported.

When I sync some albums show as a different album for each song

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http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1468
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This seemed to work fine on iTunes. However, when I then synced my iPhone to my computer, to upload the new album to my iPhone, two albums appeared in the music app. Both of them had the same name ("The Mozart Album") and also all of the tracks retained their modified track numbers. So one album was called "The Mozart Album" and had tracks 7-19, and the other album was called "The Mozart Album" and had tracks 1-6. There seemed to be no reason why the two albums shouldn't just be one album with all the tracks from both discs, as I had created in iTunes. I figured it must be something to do with the properties of the actual m4a files, but I couldn't find anything in the properties that would've caused this (I was looked for something like a "Disc Number" property). There is the fact that the original titles of the files had 01 and 02 at the beginning of each track to indicate whether the track belonged to the first disc or the second disc, respectively, but I don't think that the name of the file would affect how they are sorted in the music app on the iPhone.
I am at a loss for how to force these tracks to be consolidated in one album as they should be on my iPhone and I would appreciate any help that can be offered.

I checked for differences in the fields across all of the tracks and found none that shouldn't be there. The track numbering is 1 through 6 on Disk 1 and 1 through 13 on Disk 2. They are all tagged "of 2" in the Disk number entries. See below:
I also tried un-syncing and re-syncing the album to my phone and nothing changed. See below:

2 copies of the same album showing up on my iPod classic

Strange if you ask me. So here's a synopsis of what went down.
I ripped a cd to iTunes (a compilation I might add)and changed a few things.( one of those things being as I marked it NOT a compilation, I like to have my music sorted out to my preferences. Yes I'm weird like that)The album shows up as one album on iTunes, and I sync my ipod to put that album and then some on my iPod, after all is said and done, I scroll throw my Cover Flow and there are 2 copies of the said CD showing up as one that's not a compilation and the other as a compilation. I have tried re-syncing my iPod to get the extra copy that shows up as a compilation off my iPod, but with no success. Can somebody with or without the expertise of resolving this kind of issue be so kind in helping me resolve my little problem? It would be most appreciated to the upmost extent of my gratitude

See my previous post on Grouping Tracks Into Albums, in particular the topic One album, too many covers.
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Trying to organize my itunes folders. In itunes, I scroll through by album, and i bought some songs from an album. 12 of the songs are under one album and 1 song is in another one. I went to get info tab on all 13 trucks, the artist and album are all the same. I then tried to label all the tracks as 1 of 13, 2 of 13, etc, but it still shows as being two separate albums. Not the end of the world, but i can't figure out how to have it all as one album. thank you for your time.

I believe other than Artist and Album, which o need to match exactly, sometimes the box Album Artist will be the problem. Typically I find in this box that a guest artist name may be included here so where Artist might be 'John Smith' and Album as 'ABC' the Album Artist might read 'John Smith featuring Mary Jones' and this will list the song separately from the rest. The only solution I know of is to change the listing in the Album Artist space to match that of the rest of the songs. If I have wanted to keep the information of the featured artist listed on that song I move it to the song title such as 'Song [featuring Mary Jones]. This method has worked for me. Some times you have to look carefully at all the various information boxes to see what the difference are.
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