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I've been using iTunes for about 3 years, and I recently bought Stadium Arcadium and ripped it to my computer and added it to my iTunes library. I'm pretty meticulous with my ID tags so I naturally thought to add which disc was which through the iTunes editor (Disc blank of blank). When I uploaded it to my iPod (1G 4GB Nano), I noticed that when I went through the menu to the artist, I no longer had the basic "All, *album name*, *album name*, etc." that I had for other artists, it simply jumped straight into the album. This concerns me because I've also got some singles on my iPod that I can no longer get to. I found that renaming the album name to whatever disc it was (e.g. Stadium Arcadium CD 1) and getting rid of the "Disc 1 of 2" in the tag solved the problem, but I was wondering if anyone else had this same problem?
-Sam

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Regarding the multilpe CD issue, first I found it helpful while loading CDs to be signed out of iTunes. This in essence turns off Genius and Match, and allows you to deal solely with iTunes (local) and the CDs you are loading. Next, note how iTunes reads the meta/data file for the disk. It is at the mercy of the CD mfg, and there is not always consistency in the title text. For example, I had part of a 8-CD box say "Dvorak:" another part say "Dvorak - " and another part with either the colon or dash. After loading, I went into Get Info, and standardized on the use of the dash - and verified the order, disk 1 of 8, 2 of 8, etc. and then all the CDs loaded under a single Album heading as I understand you are looking to do. Other CDs had an embedded [Disk 1], and [Disk 2] in the title. You must remove these from the title, in order for iTunes to file them together and then make use of the "x of y" fields.
After loading, you can sign into iTunes and do Genius - then Load Album Artwork, and then Match. It doesnot make complete sense to me, but doing it this way gave me the results I wanted, which seem to be the same as the results you are looking for. Also, if the initial load have been messed up by iTunes/Match etc, you may need to delete the album and redo, playing attention to the steps described above. Good luck.

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