"Compilations" folder

When I use "Add Folder" to add a music folder to the iTunes library, iTunes moves the whole folder to a folder it created called "Compilations." I thought it was supposed to leave the folder in its original location and just add "pointers" to the music files. How can I stop iTunes from doing this? Thanks, BZ
Dell Windows Vista

You can't (normally) lose music by changing the "Part of a Compilation" tag from Yes to No. So either you did something else or in addition that causes the music to get lost, or you are not clearly stating what you mean by "lost some music" (e.g. do they still show up in iTunes but you can not find the tracks in your folders? Did they disappear from the iTunes library? etc.).
Patrick

Similar Messages

How can I keep Itunes from wanting to put my music cd in the compilations folder. Even a 2 disc set sometimes itunes will place one cd in a folder of the name of the band and the other disc in the compilations folder under the name of the cd

Two issues. The first one is that when I upload some music cd's into my itunes library, itunes wants to place the songs in a compilations folder. Sometimes this occurs even with a 2 or 3 cd set. One CD will be filed under the artists name and the disc 2 may be filed in the compilations folder and listed by the name of the cd and not the artist.
2nd issue is that sometimes cd's are similiar, but with different artists such as 20th century Hits of Neil Young. The CD is filed in the compilations folder. Than I upload the 20th century Hits of Tanya Tucker and the songs go into the same folder with Neil Young. The don't even mix as one is county and the other is rock.
I have moved these CD's out of the compilations folder and moved them in with the other cd's by the same artist, but Itunes keeps moving them back into the compilations folder.
Is there a fix

Generally setting a common Album title and Album Artist will fix things.
For compilations that aren't, select all tracks, Get Info, and on the option tab set Part of a Compilation to No. If it already says No tick the box alongside, then click OK.
For deeper problems see Grouping tracks into albums.
tt2

Remove duplicates in "Compilations" folder

I have found a lot of duplicate files in the ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/Compilations folder. Most of the discussions I have found ignore files in the Compilations folder. Are there any utilities to handle this chore, I have over 4,000 songs.
Also what is the function of the Compilations folder? I notice there is a scheme for naming files, e.g.
X.m4a X 1.m4a X 2.m4a
Can I assume that the X.m4a version is the one used to link to a playlist?

It appears that if a song appears in both the Music Library and in the Compilations folder, the song in the Compilations folder can be moved to Trash to save space.

Don't want compilations folder

Hello -
How can I get iTunes to stop creating a compilations folder for my cds? These are not cds with various artists. I want the artist to have their own folder.
Another question: if I import 2 different cds by the same artist will it create 2 separate artist folders or will it add the 2nd album in the same folder (which I'd prefer).
Thanks in advance,
Wy

If the CDs are being incorrectly identified as compilations then change the information against them either before or after you import the CD and the album will go into the Artist folder. iTunes gets the information on the CD from an online database, quite often this will identify greatest hits packages or single artist best of collections as compilations. You can change the compilation marker before you import and then the songs will go into the artist folder. Insert your CD and when it shows in iTunes click on the first song then go to Edit>Select all. Right click on the selection and choose Get Info. You'll get a message asking if you want to edit multiple items, say yes. If you are using iTunes 8 in the box that opens go to the Options tab and change "part of a compilation" to no and choose OK. (In iTunes 7, the compilations setting is at the bottom of the multi-item page). Import the CD and the tracks will go to the correct artist folder.
To change the marker on albums already imported click on the first track to highlight it, hold down the shift key and click on the last track to highlight all the songs in between and follow the instructions above to change the info.
If you import more than one album bay an artist each album will be in it's own folder inside the artist folder.

Best strategy to deal with Compilations folder

Hello,
I just moved my music folder to an external USB drive and I went back into preferences and used the Advanced tab to change the location of the folder. iTunes worked for a while and it produced 263 folders in the Compilations folder full of single song folders.
Now I can attest to the fact that I always checked not part of a compilation checkbox and stated No in the drop down, each and every time I ripped a CD.
How do I revert all of these songs in the folders that they belong into?
Thanks for any help.
Wassim

AskTom has a good article about this,
http://asktom.oracle.com/tkyte/Mutate/index.html

ITunes and Compilations Folder

When I am importing songs into my Library, I noticed that sometimes iTunes will put the album in a folder with the author's name and sometimes it will put it into a folder called Compilations. In order to keep my songs orderly, I will move the album from Compilations folder to the singer's folder, but then it will not play on iTunes nor can I transfer it to my iPod. Does anyone know why this happens, and what I can do about it?
Thanks.

sometimes it will put it into a folder called Compilations.
Because the CD is marked a a Compilation.
In order to keep my songs orderly, I will move the album from Compilations folder to the singer's folder but then it will not play on iTunes nor can I transfer it to my iPod. Does anyone know why this happens, and what I can do about it?
Since you moved it, iTunes does not know where it is so it cannot play it or sync it.
You should not move anything in the iTunes folder. Let iTunes do it.
In iTunes, selct teh songs/albums, right click - get info.
Click the Options tab and uncheck *Part of compilation*.

Compilation folder - what is it?

Windows 7
iTunes 9
I just created a new Library and copied my albums into iTunes.
When I go to the iTunes Media folder in the C drive, then to the Music folder I see most of my albums. But some ended up in the sub folder called compilations.
Itunes itself is organized fine, but any way to clean up the Music folder in the C drive?

It's a folder that holds your compilation albums; such as those with many different artists like movie soundtracks or a collection from many different albums by the same artist like a greatest hits album. Don't worry about it...I'm the most OCD person in existence and after wasting a lot of time on that folder, I let it be and all is fine with how the albums display in iTunes.

Every time i import a cd,it goes into a "compilations" folder.How do i fix?

Every song or cd i import had the box checked that says "Part of a compilation".
How and where do i go to uncheck this so it doesn't keep happening?
I messed up somewhere.
Please save me a trip to the apple store,as they are way to busy!!!
Thank's in advance

Click on the first track of your album, hold down the shift key and click on the last (this will highlight everything in between). Right click anywhere in the selection and choose Get Info, when you are asked if you want to edit multiple items say yes. Change "Compilation" down in the left hand corner to No. and then click OK. You can do this on the album tracks you've already got in iTunes or you can do it with the tracks of the CD before you import it.

Music downloads to the wrong folder

Hi.
I'm running Mountain Lion on my MacBook Pro and understand that music, movies, TV shows, etc., should download to their respective folders within the 'iTunes Media" folder, which is located here: User --> Music --> iTunes --> iTunes Media.
My problem is that, while movies, TV shows, mobile apps and ringtones download properly, music that I either download from the iTunes Store or rip from CDs download directly into the iTunes Media folder, rather than the iTunes Media --> Music folder. Also, there is now a new "Compilations" folder in the iTunes Media folder (in addition to the one listed alphabetically in the iTunes Media --> Music folder).
I'd appreciate any ideas about how to resolve this so my music downloads to the proper locations and remains organized. Thanks for your help.
Shelly

Hi,
Was there ever a resolution to this issue, I'm experiencing the same problem?
I'm an iTunes Match user, and when I...
- Rip a CD
- Run iTunes Match
- Delete the imported CD tracks
- Download the tracks from iTunes
Sometimes they download to the correct album folder in 'Music' however other times they download to the 'Media' folder - it can even be the case that some download to 'Music' and others to 'Media' for the same album.
Seems to have only started recently
Any ideas?
Regards

JavaCompiler outputs .class files in wrong folder

I'm trying to compile some code using the Compiler API. The code belongs to package "compile", however, upon compiling the code, the class file ends up in the root directory rather than in the "compile" folder as I was expecting. The compiler seems to be ignoring the package info. What am I doing wrong here?
package compile;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.URI;
import java.util.Arrays;
import javax.tools.*;
import javax.tools.JavaCompiler.CompilationTask;
public class CompilerTest {
     private static final String code =
          "package compile;\n" +
          "class TestClass {\n" +
          "     public static void main(String[] args) {\n" +
          "          System.out.println(\"Hello World!\");\n" +
          "     }\n" +
          "}\n";
     public static void main(String[] args) {
          JavaStringObject source = new JavaStringObject("compile.TestClass", code);
          Iterable<? extends JavaFileObject> sources = Arrays.asList( source );
          JavaCompiler compiler = ToolProvider.getSystemJavaCompiler();
          CompilationTask task = compiler.getTask(null, null, null, null, null, sources);
          System.out.println( task.call() );
     /** Java source from a String */
     private static class JavaStringObject extends SimpleJavaFileObject {
          private final String code;
          public JavaStringObject(String className, String content) {
               super( URI.create("string:///"+className.replace('.','/')+Kind.SOURCE.extension), Kind.SOURCE );
               code = content;
          public CharSequence getCharContent(boolean ignoreEncodingErrors) throws IOException {
               return code;
}Thanks

How do we know it is wrong?
You are not showing where you compile and run this from.
Also you are making it more confusing than it needs to be because your test class and the data for the compilation have the same package - I'd put CompilerTest and TestClass into different packages just to remove the potential for confusion.
You are not specifying a -d option to the compiler.
You are not specifying what the working directory is and the classpath when you run your test.
You are not telling us where the generated class file is placed.
When you say root directory do you mean the file system root, or the working directory or what?
With some more information we might be able to either reproduce your fault or alternatively explain to you why what you are observing is the expected behaviour.
Bruce

ITunes Music Folder Organization Inproperly

After I imported music of the album "Wings Of Song", by James Galway, from my removable hard disk to "iTunes Music Folder" and had iTunes organized it, I discovered something that's a little bit wierd. All the music I just imported is put under the folder Compilation\Wings of Song. This means that when iTunes organizing the music folder, it unexpectedly "thought" all these music are by the artist Compilation. What is the reason? Could anyone tell me why? Thank you!

The Compilation directory is how iTunes organizes albums that Gracenote (CDDB) considers works of various artists or collections of songs from the same artist, but differing albums (like "Best Of's" or "Greatest Hits").
The CDDB is not always consistent, as some Greatest Hits are marked as compilations and others are not. This really irked me in the beginning as I was wondering why some of my albums went missing. At first I tried to manually reorganize and move the files, but it was cumbersome. I stumbled on the "Compilations" function and it made things much easier.
For instance, if you have a Greatest Hits album of U2 sitting in the Compilations directory and would rather have it under the U2 directory (where I feel it better belongs), you would perform the process outlined below and the album and songs would move to its "improved" location.
That's why you have folders in your Compilations directory. Some you may wish to keep there, some you may want to move to a more appropriate place. This is how. Try moving some of them to their Artist's folder (if you have any that would qualify).
First check your Preferences:
-- Advanced/General: Keep iTunes Music folder organized (on)
-- Advanced/General: Copy files to iTunes Music folder when adding to library (off) - change it back to 'on' after the song switch, if you want
To move an Album from the Compilations folder after it was imported from a CD (or otherwheres):
-- Highlight the collection of songs on that CD within the main Library
-- Right-click, 'Get Info'
-- Remove the 'Part of Compilation' check-mark - turn it to 'no'
-- Click 'OK'
iTunes will reorganize your PC folder structure, moving the songs from the Compilation folder to their Artist folder.
To defeat a Compilation designation prior to ripping the tracks from a CD, go to 'Get Info' on the CD and make sure that the 'Part of Compilation' box is not checked. This will keep the album under its designated Artist folder.
This is how I keep my music organized. I only want 'true' compilations under the Compilations folder, not some of the Artist's 'Greatest Hits'. You may have other desires.

Folder for each cd instead of each artist

My iTunes library contains over 60GB of 256 kb/s AAC songs. When I started to use iTunes I choose to let iTunes manage the Music Folder. This resulted in a separate folder for each artist, but all I really wanted is a separate folder for each cd!
Is there a script that can organize my current iTunes Music Folder into folders for each cd instead of folders for each artist? This would save me a tremendous amount of time. Thanks.

Thank you all for responding!
The reason for having iTunes organize all music by cd rather then by artist, is that I want to add and remove cd's already converted to aac in a convenient way to the iTunes folder (because the hdd of my PB is as good as full).
Some of the compilations cd's are placed in the compilation folder but most aren't. So what has happened is that I have an artist folder with several sub folders in it with songs that belong to compilations. In order to remove an entire compilation I will have to find each track belonging to that compilation by hand. Now if every track from a certain compilation would be placed in a folder with the name of the cd, I could easily cut and past that folder to a backup drive and replace it with another folder.
Hence my request for a way to place all files belonging to a compilation in one folder with the name of that compilation. That's my objective. But something tells me that I do not know iTunes as well as I thought!

Some Albums Going into "Compliations" Folder

For some reason about 100 albums Ive loaded onto my iMac have gone into a folder in my "Music" folder called "Compilations" instead of the music folder with the name of the band.
Example: 6 of my Led Zeppelin albums in are in the proper "Led Zeppelin" folder ... but for some reason Physical Graffiti always goes into the "Compilations" folder.
I actually spent 2 hours one day moving all the albums back into their proper folders, only to find them BACK in "Compilations"
Anyone else have this issue or know why its happening?
Thanks
BRian Sullivan

Check the info tab for anything that is going into compilations. Highlight a song in iTunes that you know is not going into an Artist folder, right click on it and choose Get Info and click the Info tab (alternatively choose Get Info from the File menu). Look for a tick in the "part of compilation" box.
To remove "part of compilation" from a whole album click on the first track and while holding down the shift key go to the last one and click on it. This will highlight the selection. Right click on the selection and choose Get Info, you be asked if you wan to update multiple items, say yes. In the box the opens change "Compilation" to No. The album will move automatically from the Compilations folder into the relevant artist folder.

How do I remove "Compilations" from the "Artists" list?

I recently installed itunes 11.1.3.8 on my windows 7 64 bit machine. I found my music folders and it automatically imported everything. So far so good.
When I click on the "Artists" section, I run into two problems:
1) There are a lot of artists with only one song listed, because they're an artist who is part of a compilation.
2) There are a lot of compilations listed as albums because that's how I used to organize things.
I can't seem to fix either problem.
In both cases, I tried removing the album artist and clicking "Part of a compilation album", but it doesn't seem to work. How do I inform itunes that a particular song is a compilation, and send it to the compilations folder, and OUT of the artists folder.
Thank you.

You can only remove them when you hit 5 authorized. Normally you go to Store>Deauthorize this computer.
Without computer you go to itunes program>itunes store>Account on right>Deauthorize all. Will have to hit 5 to have the option though.

How to delete tracks from Music Folder?

After selecting all of the tracks of one of my iTunes playlists, i.e., an album, and clicking Option + Delete to move them to the Trash, I accidentally clicked Enter and, by default, selected the "Keep Files" option instead of the "Move to Trash" option in the "Do you want to move the selected songs to the Trash, or keep them in the iTunes Music folder?" dialogue box. I went to Home > Music folder > iTunes folder > iTunes Music folder > the folder of the album artist, but I do not see the folder of the album in the artist folder. How can I find these tracks so that I can send them to the Trash as intended?
Thanks,
Paul

After performing a (Finder) Find for .aif files, I located the tracks and was able to delete the playlist (album) folder with the tracks. So no assistance needed after all.
However, inexplicably, the folder with the tracks to be deleted was located in iTunes Music folder > Compilations folder, rather than in the artist folder. After finding and moving the folder of the tracks to the Trash, I checked the info of the original CD in iTunes out of curiosity and discovered that "Part of a compilation" was checked for the tracks, even though this is not a compilation (or even a live) album. I assume this sort of...tagging, I guess...was originally imbedded in the CD and is not a result of any glitch in iTunes. In fact, in the Compilations folder, I noticed several albums which are not compilation albums. I'd appreciate any thoughts or explanations as to why some non-compilation albums are checked as compilation albums.
Thanks,
Paul

"Compilations" folder

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for