Consolidate Albums in 11.1.12

Cant find anything on this in regards to the latest itunes (11.1.12). Im referring to how one album is broken up into two or three albums of the same name depending on artist (example- Johnny Cash greatist hits broken up because of other songs with other artists. or Kiss Double Platinum broken up into three albums depending on the writer of the songs). Thanks.

Generally this means you do not have the correct album artist, or a blank album artist. In this instance when you select every song on the album and do a right click>get info there will be two fields of importance "Album artist" and "Artist". The "artist" field will be the one that represents tracks on the albumb that Johnny Cash collaborated with like Jackson which features June Carter, and "Album artist" represents who the albumb is listed under, which is just Johnny Cash. So in ONLY the "album Artist" field will you type Johnny Cash. they will all then be grouped together. If this doesn't work select all of the songs again and get info, go to the options tab and mark as part of a compilation and click ok. then remove the files and readd them, select all and remove from compliation and the settings will hold the album together and not group as a compliation.

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Hi there.
Thanks for your reply. I was trying to do this last night, I updated to itunes 11 a few days ago. I turned on my laptop this morning and found there was another update, so I updated and now it works!
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