Bug: albums with similar names get mixed up in album shuffle mode

I got 2 albums with the same name Splinter from Offspring, and Splinter from Sneaker Pimps. When i use 'album shuffle', there 2 albums get mixed up together: the iPod treats it as 1 album and play one track from Offspring and one from Sneaker Pimps after eachother. Stooopid! Apple, fix this please for me?

This is a well known problem and I don't think it's going to be fixed for you.
The only solution at the moment is to separate the albums yourself. It may not be pretty but Splinter (Offspring) and Splinter (Sneaker Pimps) is probably your answer.

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Albums with same names interleaved

I have several albums by different artists with the same title - "Greatest Hits"
When I sort by Album, it shows them to me with all of the tracks 1 together, tracks 2 together, etc. For an example, see:
http://alansmith.smugmug.com/photos/108162250-L-0.jpg
Any idea on how to fix this?
Thanks in advance,
Alan

Alan
I have had a similar problem with compilation albums which I solved (partially at least) by this fix: highlight all the tracks on the album in question then use Command-I. In the Info subsection fill in the Album Artist section with the appropriate name. (Gracenotes does not always fill in this data but adding it myself seems to work for my albums).
[For compilation albums, I just put "Various artists" in the album artist box otherwise, like your screenshot, I get multiple album covers for the same album which makes scrolling thro' a pain].
If anyone knows a better way then please let me know.
Hope I've been of some help!
Regards
gasman1966
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Two Albums with Same Name

What is the best way to differentiate between two albums that have the same name? When I sort my Library by Album, the songs from albums with the same name are mixed together. I tried setting a "Grouping" but that doesn't seem to help.

although not a perfect solution, you could use the disk number field. Highlight your album, right-click, choose "Get Info". Put each album as a different disk number and you'll be sorted.
Normally this is for double albums where you'd have "1 of 2" and "2 of 2". However you can put in much larger numbers. I've been to 21, but I'd assume it goes much higher.

Mail address's and names getting mixed up?

I have an account with over 10000 emails within it, lately names of senders & recipients are getting mixed up, i.e mail from J smith will show as coming from P smith but actual message is correctly from J smith.
I also have the account on my macbook (OD client with mobile account) and its all fine on there. Could my online account have some issues?

That's because you both use the same Apple ID. Settings>Store>Automatic Downloads>Off.

Two albums with same name combined into one

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On my Mac I've renamed one album 'hits' and then resynched. There are now two albums: Hits by artist Y and Greatest Hits by artist Y (with no album artwork and the songs are actually by artist X).
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iTunes identifies an album by its name. If there is more than one album with the same name then iTunes will see it as one album. As you have found you have to give them different names.

Ipod sort by album - two albums with same name

Is this a bug? When I am browsing my music via "Albums" on my iPod, any duplicate album titles are shown as one album. For example, "Let it Be" by the Beatles appears, but not "Let it Be" by the Replacements. When I click into it, all the songs from both albums are there, but they are staggered. How can I make these appear as two separate albums in this view?

I find that the whole sorting capabilities of iTunes and ergo iPod are sorely lacking...
You'll also find that you can have the SAME album listed twice if your id3 tags have one or more spaces after the album name, but there's no indication that there are superfluous spaces until you go into the errant file and see what the title actually is...
ie: Let It Be
Let It Be <space><space><space><space><space> [I'm not sure why these occur, but they do...]
Here's what I'd like to see:
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What I mean by that is if I click on Artist, I'd like to see the albums in order of release and songs in order of appearance on CD. If there's more than one CD in a set, they should appear in numerical order...
Further to this, if I click on Year, the artists should appear alphabetically, the Disc # and Song # appear numerically
For the life of me I can't figure out why this is so hard for software developers to understand...
ok, I'm done...
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Avoid record creation with similar names

Hi,
am trying to add a validation in Oracle forms using Oracle DB.
in a Oracle table consider there is a record named 'Netbook' then if I try to create another record with name 'Netbooks', then a Oracle warning message should be displayed stating similar name 'Netbook' is already available. same way, if NETBOOKS is already available in table and if user try to create another record NETBOOK then same warning message netbooks is already available should be shown.
Is this possible, please could you let me know and how this can be acheived.

user7351276 wrote:
yes if singular is already in database then plural should not be allowed. same the other way, Plural already available then singular name should not be allowed.
case 1 -netbook already present then netbooks should not be allowed or a warning message to let user know
case 2- netbooks already present then netbook should not be allowed or a warning message to let user know
case 3- best buy already present then bests buy or best buys should not be allowed or a warning message.
lets consider am treating them all in lowercase.
Good to hear that.
But could you please explain, that why is it that you (or something else) is/are inserting such data... in Singular/Plural forms into a single column?
Can't you restrict that while inserting itself?
I'm sorry but we are dealing with DBMS and catching such english mistakes is beyond its scope. Might need some more time to develop Artificial Intelligence into DBMS.

One Artists, Two Albums With Same Name Displaying Together

I have my itunes setup to show artists in grid view. When I double click on a particular artist and look at the albums, I see two separate albums grouped into one. This artist has two albums named the same; one from 1980 and one from 2003. They are distinctly different albums with the same name. The only way I can separate them is to tack on [2003] to the album title of the newer one. Is there a way to have them with just the name but separated?

iTunes identifies an album by its name. If there is more than one album with the same name then iTunes will see it as one album. As you have found you have to give them different names.

Itunes 12 will not allow you to paste album covers into the get info section of albums or indivial songs it makes you go to another area on your computer

I tried to do a cut and paste like I used to do for album covers that iTunes doesn't carry( go figure) and the 12 version wont let you instead it has a window pop up for pictures that your suppose to direct it to get the artwork from. That's a lot of work! All I can say is simplify and do more research before the next release. also iTunes has always had problems freezing up. This verion and past verisons. I'd go to a different player put I've already invested thousands of dollars in my iTunes media and the earlier stuff doesn't play on different players. So here I am stuck.

The iTunes 12 Get Info dialog lacks right-click context menus (at least for now) but it still accepts most standard keyboard shortcuts and drag & drop actions.
Delete Artwork
On the artwork tab of Get Into, tap the image in question, use Backspace or Ctrl+X. Delete doesn't work.
Or, tap the image at the top left of Get Info, this time use Backspace or Delete, it is Ctrl+X that doesn't work.
Add Artwork
Select artwork, press Ctrl+C to copy, tap the center of the Artwork tab, press Ctrl+V to paste.
Or, select artwork, press Ctrl+C to copy, tap the small image area at the top left, press Ctrl+V to paste.
Or, you can drag & drop to, or sometimes from, the same locations.
You can also copy artwork from the Get Info dialog to Windows Explorer with the keyboard shortcuts.
If the source image is on a web page right-click and use Copy Image rather than copy. (With Chrome I get a one pixel wraparound so tend to go for a temporary local copy anyway - not sure whose bug this is, but it isn't new.)
If you have multiple images embedded drag the one you want to be the primary artwork to the leftmost position.
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The top left image box can be used to add or delete art from multiple tracks. In either case all existing artwork in all tracks is replaced/removed.
Old Style Get Info Dialog
Select some items, right-click, hold down shift, then click Get Info from the context menu. (Use alt/option on a Mac)
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How do I print a list of albums with all Genres? Skips the classical albums. ?

How do I print a list of all albums and all genres? Itunes skipped Classical albums.

Well, this is not only a way to print a list with all genres but also a list with all type of genre used in your iTunes library.
I found a crazy way, but it works. Export a list of all you music sorted by genre (with genre included as one of the columns) and save all as a text file > File > Library > Export List > Tipe: text file
Open Excel - drag drop text file into excel. [FROM HERE YOU CAN PRINT ALL YOUR MUSIC LIST] - click once in the upper left square before column A and over line 1 and now click twice a little bit before the end of column A (the pointer changes like a cross) to adjust all cell width.
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Find the genre column > select the column
copy it and in a new sheet paste only this column in A1 ... Annn cells.
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click OK
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Itunes places imported tracks in different albums with same name

When I import a CD, itunes can't seem to keep these files in the same album if they happen to be by different artists. I've tried manually editing the track information using the "get info" screen, but just can't get it. The initial download places the tracks together, but after I use the "get track titles" option and download the track titles from Gracenote, I'm left with multiple albums, even though the albums show as having the same name.

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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Grouping albums with same name but different artist?

I have two albums in iTunes 7 which will not group correctly - either they show up as 24 or so separate albums or a single compilation or so on! I've tried marking them as compilations, as not compilations, you name it.
They share the same album name, but have different artists and genres. How can I convince iTunes that they are two distinct albums? (I would have thought this test should be part of the application's logic, to be honest!)
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Note: I have this album set to be a compilation, I have filled in Queen in all 17 tracks as the album artist and all 17 tracks have the same Album name, it still does not group together properly when sorting by Album Artist (only when sorting by Album Name).
iTunes 7 adds support for the ¨Album Artist¨ tag (as used and required by Windows Media Player). Adding support for this tag was actually a request I made myself a while ago.
Unfortunately iTunes is not using this tag in a useful way (as it was intended). The purpose of this tag (as used by Windows Media Player) is to cope with Albums that contain more than one artist, a good example album is Queen's Greatest Hits III (see http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=161431875&s=14344 4 ) this album contains tracks by or featuring David Bowie and George Michael (amongst others) as well as Queen themselves, despite this, everyone would consider the Album itself to be by Queen.
The purpose of the Album Artist tag is so that you can browse by the Album Artist and see the entire album listed (and not just those tracks specifically by Queen themselves). Therefore iTunes should if in browse view mode and sorted by Album Artist show the entire album grouped together - IT DOES NOT. Instead it appears to be being sub-sorted by Artist (as well as Album Artist) and this results in it being split in to 3 or more sections. This applies to all three view modes including the Coverflow view.
As things stand the only benefit I get from iTunes now supporting the Album Artist tag is greater compatibility with Windows Media Player, apart from that it appears completely useless in iTunes as currently implemented.

Importing multiple albums with same name

I have two different soundtrack recordings of a movie, which I am trying to import from CDs. But iTunes 10 keeps munging the tracks into a single album and I have not found a way to keep the albums separated. I've loaded one and changed the album name by adding "Original Soundtrack". Then trying to import the other version, iTunes pops up a message about duplicate tracks and overwrites into the previous directory even when I check "Don't Replace".
I've seen a lot of questions about how to delete duplicate albums, but I can't find a way to get near-duplicates into the library. Any suggestions?

iTunes uses a maximum of 40 characters for file and folder names. if the original album title is long enough they may still clash at the folder level before you add any extra text.
When the CD is sitting in your drive & before you start ripping, you can use Get Info. to edit indivdual tracks or properties for the whole album, e.g. set the Album title, complete the Album Artist field, or select Part of a compilation.
If iTunes is recognising both albums (which you say are distinct recordings) as being the same thing then perphaps your edits get stored in the local database and applied to the second album when it is inserted into the drive. You should however be able to select any particular set of tracks and give them the albun title you feel is appropriate without anything else being modified.
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Problem with collection names getting replaced when creating new collections in Photoshop Elements 5.0

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As we named the new collection and clicked on "OK" it replaced another existing collection with the new name. The photos from the old collection were still there but now under the new collection name. This happened at least three or four times, each time a different "old" collection was renamed. Does anyone know why this would happen?
This past week we have added at least 20 new collections with no problem prior to this. Adobe actually had to shut down when this happened. Each time we reopened Adobe it would happen again randomly renaming a different "old" collection when we tried to add the new one. Any insights would be much appreciated.

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Albums with same name diff artist appear as the same album in iphone

I have four albums named "greatest hits" all from different artist (smashing pumpkins, blink, rhcp...), in my itunes library they appear ok and not as one whole album, when I synch, in my iphone I see the four of them with their respective covers and such, BUT under each title no matter the artist, there are ALL THE SONGS IN ALL THE ALBUMS named "greatest hits".
in other words, I have in my iphone 4 albums named "greatest hits" under 4 different artist, but in everyone of them, I have the same songs, which are all the songs in all the "greatest hits" albums.
why does this happen? how do I fix it other than changing the album titles?
thanks!

You've run into one of the "features" of the iTunes/iPod family. I'm afraid renaming the album titles is the only option. See my previous post on Grouping Tracks Into Albums, in particular the topic One cover, too many tracks.
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