Consolidating songs under one Album Cover

When importing a CD Album into iTunes, iTunes will create several album covers then spread different songs under each cover. How do I consolidate these spread-out song under on album cover? Currently I have an album, under library, that show 5 album covers with 2-3 songs under each album cover. I am new to using an iPod so any help is appreciated.
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Have you had a look at this troubleshooting page? It may be of some help: Why aren't songs with the same album art grouped together

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Group Different Albums by the Same Artist under one Album Cover

I've read many posts regarding grouping tracks by different artists into one album, but none dealing with grouping tracks by one artist together from different album titles. An example of this would be classical pieces that are divided into different acts, or more recently, the new Green Day album "21st Century Breakdown," which also divides the album into "acts." Another example of this situation could be a box set by a particular artist, for instance an Eagles box set that contains 3 discs of differing titles (disc one: Eagles, disc two: Desperado, disc three: Live) in which case the three CDs are all essentially part of the same album.
I know the grouping field can be utilized to tag all the CDs within the same set to keep them together; however, I have not been able to use this feature to group albums such as those mentioned above together under one album art in the grid or in the coverflow view. It looks rather silly when there are 3 or 4 of the same album cover in a row in the grid or the coverflow.
The best way I could think to differentiate the different acts on an album or CDs in a set was to group the songs in their own folder and change the title of the album tag to reflect which act (or CD) those particular tracks covered. While this works in the list view to keep the tracks in order, it does not allow me to view the album as a “whole” using the coverflow view. It seems the only way to merge differently tagged tracks is if the ALBUM title is the same even if there are multiple artists. I’ve tried using the grouping, sorting, and “part of a compilation” options with no success. Is there any way to merge these tracks under one album art while retaining the different album names?

Adding slightly to the previous post I would suggest that you give each disc of the set an appropriate disc no., e.g. Discs 1 of 3, 2 of 3 and 3 of 3 for Eagles, Desperado & Live respectively in your Eagles Box Set. Record the individual disc titles in the Comments or Grouping field, then change the Album title for all three discs to something appropriate like "Eagles Box Set". The three discs will collapse into one cover and play in sequence. If marking the transition from one disc to another matters you could, for example, simply add the album name in brackets to the first track of each album. You could use curly brackets to distinguish this from other types of track comment. For more organizational tips see my previous post on Grouping Tracks Into Albums, in particular the topic One cover for multi-disc album.
The alternative approach for box sets which simply repackage a number of original albums together is to find the original artwork for each album.
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Consolidating tracks under one album

How do you consolidate tracks under one album... i imported an album and now it has multiple album covers, separating the tracks.

Have you had a look at this troubleshooting page? It may be of some help: Why aren't songs with the same album art grouped together

How do i put my songs under one album at once

i have about 30 songs that i want to put under one album and dont want to do it one by one is there a way,

Select all the tracks, Get Info., give them a common Album name and Album Artist.
For more details see my article on Grouping Tracks Into Albums.
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Consolidating songs into one album using iTunes 12

In earlier versions of iTunes I was able to dump songs into one album, but with the new iTunes 12.0.1.26 I cannot seem to get the songs into one album. Anyone have any ideas.
Thanks for your time.

Hello there, jclove.
When songs from the same album aren't grouped together in iTunes, the following Knowledge Base article helps provide some guidance on correcting that issue:
Why aren't songs with the same album art grouped together? - Apple Support
Although it may look different in iTunes 12, the functionality is still there, and can be changed.
Thanks for reaching out to Apple Support Communities.
Cheers,
Pedro.

Two artists under one album cover

There is two albums on my itouch that the songs from two artists have been added to each others playlists.
I open the music folder select the artist then the album and everything seems ok but when I select a song then look at now playing and tap the album cover the songs that are displayed have another artists within the list.This is also the same if I flick through the album covers then tap the same one the additional songs are in the list.
I have tried to re-load these albums but it just happened again.

Do the two albums by any chance have the same title? The iPod has trouble handling albums with the asme title, in that case you can change the titles to distinguish one from the other. For instance if the albums were both Greatest Hits, rename one Artist A - Greatest Hits and the other Artist 2 - Greatest Hits.

How do I group songs under one album, please?

OK, so I
iTunes works better than Windows media player for my set up with Windows 7 Ultimate .... BUT it 'took over' the Media Player library and put some tracks as separate entries - so, for example, I have one album of Rod Stewart in 6 different places, with tracks from the same album. I have tried everything I can think of, even deleting the whole album and starting again - frustratingly, same result. Can anyone help, please?

Generally all you need to do is fill in appropriate Album and Album Artist fields. For more details see my article on Grouping Tracks Into Albums, in particular the topic One album, too many covers and, if necessary, the two following sections.
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Consolidating songs into one album

When you have an album with multiple artists, how do you consolidate back into one album on Itunes?

ctrl + clic on the album then get info ,it asks you if you wanna change the info of several elements,click yes then just add the name you want for the album in "artist album" click ok and that's it ! you may select several "albums" to consolidate them !!

HT1473 When I add a audio CD to iTunes it doesn't keep it under one album cover like it does when I purchase an album from the store. That creates a lot of clutter. How can I keep it all together?

As above.

For reasons known only to apple, the main sort priority now is the artist. ANd when you have a compilation album you end up with multiple 'albums' that are really one. You can right click on the songs and edit the info for each song, making the info right for all of them.....it may not be perfect but it works for me. (My music is all ripped from cd's and not downloaded from Apple)
In your case, you could mark each song as 'various artists' and then they'll all be under the same cover

How to combine munltiple album songs under one ablum?

I have looked all around the iTunes Help section and just can't seem where to find out how to combine album songs under one album in the cover flow view. I know it's confusing so here is a picture of what I mean. The circled part is what I want to be under one picture.
http://img503.imageshack.us/my.php?image=veteranspark1280gwmtus3ty7.jpg

You're on the right track. iTunes 8 is changed - you need to go to the Options tab to see the Compilation box.
Why Apple can't get their version control in check so that matching help & tech support articles are released the same day as new software, I'll never understand. It presents a very poor quality image.

Combining songs into one album

I previously imported music from my Music CD Soundtrack: Forrest Gump (has multiple disks) while I was on a Windows platform (not sure if that will matter considering my issue, but wanted to give that info.)
Now, I've imported all my music on to my recently purchased MacBook. I had the same issue on my Windows iTunes, but never resolved it.
I have, let's say 20 songs I selected from the soundtrack, but, they have placed them in different albums. Consequently, only a few have found the artwork to go with the album. I tried switching the album name to the same album name that had artwork. I tried dragging those songs to the album with artwork.
Still, I cannot combine all the songs under one album. If I wanted to play all the songs from my Forrest Gump soundtrack, I'd have to go to about 10 different albums, and, as I said before, I could not get artwork for a majority of the songs.
What do I need to do to combine these songs all under one album (FYI: for some reason the two artworks I did get downloaded, were actually two different covers, one correct and one that was still a Forrest Gump cover, but a different one than I had on my original CD).

If this is a compilation album where you have many artists on one album then you probably need to toggle the compilation checkbox at the bottom of the Get Info window for the tracks on the album. Highlight all the tracks, Get Info, then check the compilation box says yes.

HT1451 A new album purchase downloaded each song as an individual album with its own album cover. How do I consolidate all songs under just one album cover like the rest of my library?

A new album purchase downloaded each song as an individual album, each with its own album cover. How do I consolidate all songs under just one album cover like the rest of my library? How did this happen?

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.
BTW, are you really still using Windows 2000?
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How do i get all my songs of one album together under one album artwork

how do i get all my songs of one album together under one album artwork some are ok and some are all over the place

If the songs in your library are not all in the iTunes Music folder you can consolidate them (Choose File > Library > Consolidate Library). When you consolidate, any songs in the iTunes Library that are not in the iTunes Music Folder are copied to the Music Folder and the Library is updated to point to those new files. Files already in the iTunes Music Folder have no changes made to them: Consolidating your library - Windows

ITunes merges unrelated songs into one album?

Hey all, I've tried repeatedly to fix this problem and haven't had any luck. I recently added an album to iTunes (11.4) and the following things happened:
1) Under "albums" view, each song from the album had its own separate entry in albums (same album art and title, several entries with one song each).
2) After I repeatedly consolidated them into one album, they finally stayed together...
3) ...but suddenly 100+ other songs joined them in that album.
Now over a hundred of my songs are considered part of the same album--everything from Johnny Cash to Yoko Kanno is considered part of "Awesome Mix Vol. 1". I have no idea why these songs in particular were chosen, but whatever is happening overwrites their album information as well as their album art while leaving everything else intact. It's not even consistent regarding which albums it messes with--SOME of Abbey Road is now part of Awesome Mix while some is not.
I've changed the tags back a dozen times. I've even used a program like TuneUp to do so automatically. Every time I do so it eventually changes back--I think the Awesome Mix category is saved into iCloud or something. Has anyone encountered this before and can they suggest any fixes? I am going nuts. These are awesome songs, but they don't belong in Awesome Mix.

In iTunes an "album" is any collection of tracks with the same Album title and the same Album Artist, or Artist if Album Artist is blank, or for which Part of a compilation is true. This can be further complicated by inappropriate values in the various sort fields. See Grouping tracks into albums for more.
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Combining several songs into one album

I have numerous songs from different artists that I want to combine into one album, so that when I browse using either Cover Flow or Album View, all those songs will be listed under one album. After over two hours of searching on the Internet I found this very useful site:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304389
The problem that I am encountering is the one illustrated under the heading "Albums with various artists." After following all the recommendations, I am still encountering the same problem - each song is listed under a separate album. Anyone have any idea what to do? For the record I have already tried these remedies:
-Selected all the songs and changed the album name so that they all have the exact same album name
-Selected all the songs and changed the album artist name so that they all have the exact same album artist name
-Selected all the songs and set "compilation" to "yes"
-In Preferences, under the General tab I checked "Group compilations when browsing"
Thank you in advance.

The albums will only show up under the same cover in Cover Flow if you are sorting by Album or Album by Artist.

Consolidating songs under one Album Cover

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