Click one album get a totally different artist

This just started. I click Bob Dylan's Blonde On Blonde first song and takes me to Queer As Folk. Tried this with another Dylan Album (both from cd's by the way) and it plays John Mayer. Tried signing in/out/in out etc. turned on iTunes Match (even though I thought I'd finally freed myself of this monster) and to no avail the problem persists. Luckily, I have all my music stored in AMAZON CLOUD so if-worse comes to worse-I can re-download, but seriously does anyone know what could be going on, why songs are all scrambled (all of a sudden) on just a few albums? Of course I haven't checked them all, but a sampling shows a few of my albums give me totally different songs in the play bar.

See my previous post on Grouping Tracks Into Albums, in particular the topics One album, too many covers and Tracks out of sequence.
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HT1473 When downloading a CD album, if it contains different artists, the album is split up into separate albums/icons. How do I get all songs into one album (just like the original CD)?

When downloading a CD album, if it contains different artists, the album is split up into separate albums/icons. How do I get all songs into one album (just like the original CD)?

Generally, in iTunes, all you need to do is fill in an appropriate Album Artist to keep things together. For older iPods each track from the same album should have the same artist, or be marked as a compilation where appropriate. For iOS devices you may need to go to Settings > Music > Group By Album Artist > On.
For more details see my article on Grouping Tracks Into Albums, in particular the topic One album, too many covers.
tt2

Some albums getting listed as Various Artist in Cover flow only

eg
Velvet Revolver - Contraband
Husker Du -Land Speed Record
The Killers - Sawdust
The above albums appear in the Correct place under the artists name in Portrait mode on the ipod but, when viewed in cover flow - the appear as being "various artists"
I have 32gb 3.5gs
Anyone know how to fix this?
I have re-type the artists name, then re-sync - still appears in the same place

I had the same problem after I updated to the most recent 3.0 firmware on my iPhone 3G.
I managed to fix the same problem you describe by:
1) Making sure the "Part of a Compilation" field is set to "No". For multiple files, you select them, "Get Info" and on the "Options" tab, you will see this setting. For one file, it will be on the "Info" page.
2) Making sure "Album Artist" is either blank or set correctly.
Number 2 only came up on 1 or 2 albums that were not displaying properly on CoverFlow (i.e., showing up under "Various Artists"). Number 1 is what fixed the rest of my albums (around 10 full albums or so).
Hope this helps other people. To save time, I would suggest using the Shift button to select the entire album and do what I recommend under #1.
Cheers.

One Album But Sorted As Different Albums

I recently imported a cd that I bought into Itunes. The problem that Im having is that even though the artist may have some guest features on the album. It still sorts the album as one thats completely different. It makes cover flow look bad and everything else sloppy. Ive tried changing things in the INFO tab, and also in the SORTING tab. Ive removed track numbers placed them as a compilation and that work but now it shows Various Artis and all the songs or linked together. But now I have the Various Artist problem.

Not sure how removing track numbers can help here.
I think what you need to do is make sure that the Album Artist field is filled in with the same info on all of the tracks. Maybe fill it in with the primary artist or the name of the album instead of Various Artists.

How to make one album show up for multiple artists?

I'd like some albums to show up under multiple artists in iTunes in Windows. Say for example "The Basement Tapes" by Bob Dylan and The Band. It would be nice to see this album under both these artists. Or to have "Two Men With the Blues" show up under both Willie Nelson and Wynton Marsalis. Can I do that with iTues? If so I haven't figured out how. It would be nice if using a delimiter such as as comma, slash of semi-colon would signify to iTunes that it should lists those songs under all artists but it doesn't. At least commas didn't work. Any help would be appreciated.

iTunes doesn't have the ability to do what you want, i.e. to define multiple separated values in a field and then have the item show up when looking at a selection based on each of those values. "Bob Dylan", "The Band" and "Bob Dylan & The Band" are three distinct values that can't be linked together. Sort values can change where in a list things are displayed but shouldn't be used to attempt to merge different values as results are undefined and unpredictable.
tt2

Make an album show in two different artists

I have several albums where the artist of the album is A & Artist B, and then I can have albums from Artist A and others from Artists B and B and C etc, my problem is when I click on the Artist A, it doesnt show my Artists A & Artist B albums because itunes doesnt recognize the ';' in the Album Artist tag. Is there a way to have this kind of feature? How? Or am I doing it the wrong way? Tks

"Jazz;Blues;Country" and it will recognize the 3 of them.
Of course, that is the optimal solution. Sooooo.......
Tell Apple about it.
http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunesapp.html

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!)
Gavin

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.

How do I play one album at a time?

I want to play one album at a time by artists for whom I have multiple albums. I have the newest generation ipod touch. One album at a time used to be the default mode, but with the new operating system iOS7, this is no longer the case. Here's an example - I want to play the Pixies "Surfer Rosa," but when i click on the first song, it says it's playing 1 of 58 songs continuously - I want it to stop playing after "Surfer Rosa," I want it to say it's playing 1 of 14 songs. Is there a simple fix for this? Something in general settings or music settings that I have overlooked?
I have found one way to play just one album, but it seems a bit complicated for what should be a simple fix. I click on the first song on Surfer Rosa, then click on the 3 dot 3 line icon in the upper right corner, then click on another song, then back to the first song, then click done, and now it says it's playing 1 of 14 songs. It's nice to have found this way around the issue, but, it's a lot of steps for something that used to be the default mode.

Do you really mean upload as in transferring the files to another computer somewhere, or do you mean you ripped as in ripping a CD to copy the music to your computer?
Select the tracks you want to edit, Get Info on them, then enter the desired album name.

HT2905 I have multiple album titles of the same name with different artists. How can I get them to go under one album title again?

I have multiple album titles of the same name with different artists. How can I get them to go under one album title again?

In iTunes(on a Mac or PC) just tap on 'Albums' rather than 'Artists' and you'll see them all together.
You may find that there are songs mislabelled. In which case right tap on the Album or Artist and tap 'Get Info', then change to the correct name and the songs will join the rest of the songs for that Artist or Album.
Then resync with your iPhone and all will be well.

How do I make more than one different artists go under the same album?

Hey, I've had a little problem lately. I've got an album, with more than one artist in it, and at my iPod touch, the artists are all showing up one by one instead of just one single artist. I want to keep the artists names, but if it can't be solved, I'll take them away and give the album the same artist name.
-MeThePowerful-
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In iTunes:
select all songs of that specific album > right-click > Get Info > Sorting.
There you can enter the main artist (album artist) of the album. Klick OK.
Now the album should be listed under the main artist although you have different artist in the artist field.
Experiment away and see if it works.

I have Downloaded albums that break up into each and every song or artist and I cannot get them to combine into the one album that they actually are. How can I do that?

In My itunes library some of the albums I have downloaded to my computer are being separated into each song or broken up into groups of separate artists on the album. I cannot figure out how to combine them all back into the one album they actually are from so when I open the library under Albums the album in question is just one album and not 10 or 15 albums because of this fracturing. I can make them into one album by making a playlist but that does not take care of the Album list page. Any ideas?

Generally setting a common Album title and Album Artist will fix split albums.
For compilations of tracks by different artists set the album artist to Various Artists and also tick Album is a compilation of songs by various artists if using the new version of Get info or set Part of a compilation to Yes on the Options tab if using the old dialog box (which you can invoke by holding down shift as you right-click > Get Info).
For deeper problems see Grouping tracks into albums.
tt2

How can I display a compilation album as one album rather than as separate songs? (each different artist shows with the same album art)

I want a compilation album, consisting of different artists, to all be included within the one album folder. Currently when scrolling through my ipod classic each artist has its own album folder, even though they originate from the same album e.g. "The Best Rock 'n' Roll Album in the World Ever" consists of two discs (50 songs). Each artist's song shows as a 'separate album' of one song, each with the same album artwork. I want all of those on Disc 1 to be under one album cover and similarly for those on Disc 2.

Select all the tracks on disc 1 and via Get Info, change the Album Artist to Various Artists and turn on the compilation flag. This is iTunes 12:
Then repeat for disc 2.

I am importing a cd into itunes and it is creating 4 different albums. How can I get it all in one album?

I am importing a CD into itunes and it is creating 5 different albums.
1 album for most of the songs and 4 other albums for single songs from
the CD. How can I get itunes software to put all the songs into 1 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

How can you get a compilation album to show up as one album rather than be split up but song and artist?

how can you get a compilation album to show up as one album rather than be split up by song and artist? I've got loads of albums on iTunes that are compliations and they are all mixed up by track/ artist. Even when you click 'show album' it still just shows the album title and then the artist in alphabetical order - so the album is replicated several times
Can anyone tell me how to amalgamate compliation albums please?

This web page will help you: http://samsoft.org.uk/iTunes/grouping.asp

Is it possible to sort a 2CD compilation album where each CD has a different "album artist" together as one album in iTunes?

I have an album which I am trying to sort correctly in iTunes.
It has 2CDs of tracks by various artists, it is set up as a 'compilation' and I have 'album artist' set up.
As far as I can see all the settings are correct, however CD1 is a compilation of tracks remixed by "artist A" and CD2 is a compilation of tracks remixed by "artist B" therefore becasue each disc has a different album artist, the album is split into two seperate albums on album view.
Is there any way to get this to display as one album?
The album is released as "Artist A" so for now I have set that name as the 'album artist' for CD2 as well to get round it but would ideally like to have the second CD labelled correctly with the second artist's information.
I suppose I could also use "Arist A / Artist B" for both CDs but would prefer not to do this as well so that it would be grouped with other (solo) albums from these artists.
Cheers for any help!

Your options are to treat this as one collective album by the joint Album Artists, or as two separate albums by them as individuals, or I suppose you could duplicate the entire album and do both.
tt2

Click one album get a totally different artist

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