Cover Flow w/ Individual Tracks

I have a number of singles in my library with no album info listed. When I view in grid or cover flow, each individual track shows up with the generic iTunes icon as cover art.
Is there a way to either:
a) consolidate all the singles for each artist so that they only show up once in grid or cover flow views, and/or
b) select if you want certain tracks/albums to be hidden in grid or cover flow views?

Some albums may not be what would normally be called a compilation album (e.g. Now That's What I Call Music Vol X is a compilation album), but might have tracks with differing artists. The classic example is Queen's Greatest Hits III.
Microsoft of all people came up with a good idea on how to cope with this which is an additional meta tag called "Album Artist" which is different to the individual track artist. Using the same Queen's Great Hits III album example, the entire album would by any sensible person be considered to be a Queen album but track 2 (Under Pressure) of that album is jointly by Queen & David Bowie (not just Queen).
I (and I presume others) requested Apple add support for this Album Artist tag and it was indeed added in iTunes 7.0. Unfortunately in my opinion, Apple's implementation is not as good as Microsoft's.
Apple in iTunes do not let you browse by Album Artist at all, nor do they let you properly sort by Album Artist (in my opinion this sorting is broken).
I direct you to this other older message thread http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=843028&start=15&tstart=0 in which you can see a screen capture by myself listing just two albums - Queen's Greatest Hits II, and Queen's Greatest Hits III. Despite the fact that I have filled in all the tracks to all have the identical Album Artist entry (of Queen), you can see Coverflow incorrectly breaks it in to two copies of Queen's Greatest Hits II, and three copies of Greatest Hits III.
The only way I have found to get iTunes to correctly group all the tracks of an album together is to use any of the three sorting by Album name options (all accessed by clicking on the column heading called Album).
Note: Microsoft do let you browse and sort properly by the Album Artist tag in Windows Media Player.
[I suppose Microsoft have to get something right eventually!]

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Combining individual songs to show as 1 album in cover flow

I'm manually going through my iTunes library filling in missing album artwork. I haven't really used cover flow because of the fact that I had so few albums that autofilled with album artwork. But I'd like to now, I noticed that a lot of my albums aren't "linked" together as a album and show up individually as their own album. I'll use the Malt Shop Memories set as an example. It's a 10 disc set of oldies that I changed "info" for across the whole album (one disc at a time) I pasted in the album artwork, set disc number, total number of discs, set Album name, and set the genre. Now when I click on the tab to view the library in grouped it shows the album art and one song. Then below it, the album art again and one song etc etc. In coverflow it has a album art icon per song so I can't just click to the next song I have to (in this case) click past 15 songs to get to the next album/disc.
So my question is, how can I fix that lol. I mean isn't it only supposed to show the album art once per album? How do I tell iTunes that this group of songs should be one album? Thanks for any help!

I tried those things in that article. I have a 2 disc set that has various artist but them same album art on both discs.
I highlight all 15 tracks on disc 1 and click on "Get Info" so that I am making changes across all the songs. I set for all of them; Compilation - Yes, Album - Malt Shop... , Disc number - 0f 2, Track Number - of 15, Genre - Oldies, and I paste in artwork that I've copied to the clipboard.
I make sure that not only does it have the correct info in the fields but also that the green check mark is in the corresponding box. I even tried marking them all as (Part of a compilation - NO) then remarking them all at the same time as Compilation - Yes. Still no good, all the info is right and it still shows 1 song as a album.
What am I missing?

IPhone-style track select to Full Screen Cover Flow!

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ITunes 7 has split my albums up into individual tracks in cover view!

In the two new views in itunes 7 many of my albums have been split up into individual tracks. Is there anything I can do to 'consolidate' them back?
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Hi there, I have the same problem, Albums I've imported from CD and albums I've bought through itunes now display as separate tracks in both views with album art. Also in list view if I click on an album all its tracks are now not in the correct album order but mixed up, so if I use the album view im left with 10 album covers for the same album with 1 track per cover and in list view everything is all mixed up. I wish I'd never upgraded from itunes 6 as this is now a complete mess and almost unusable with 300 albums of music "WELL DONE APPLE" as a 12 year mac user Im starting to feel like im back using windows 3.1 again

How do you see individual tv show episodes and not the cover for the tv show in cover flow?

I used iFlicks to import some of my TV series to iTunes. I then selected the cover flow view because its easier to see when sitting on the coach. The only problem i've got is that iTunes shows covers for each TV series but I can't seem to find a way to see how many episodes are in a series and how to select that episode. This is specifically for cover flow view. I took screenshot that shows Season 1 of Alphas that consists of 5 episodes:
[IMG]http://i1219.photobucket.com/albums/dd432/vmoodleyzaf/ScreenShot2011-12-21at1933 27.png[/IMG]
As you can see in the screenshot, there's no indication of the episodes contained within the series. If anyone has any ideas about this, i'd really appreciate it.

If you are in Cover Flow view, fullscreen, selecting the cover only plays the first episode of the series. I even tried downloading an entire season from iTunes and it does the same thing. Obviously, iTunes names the episodes and season numbers correctly. If I press the skip button on the remote while watching an episode, it jumps to the next episodes without showing any info about the new episode. Please note that this is in fullscreen mode. If I exit fullscreen mode, then a list of episodes is shown below the cover of the tv show. However, that list is not viewable from a distance.

Cover Flow Album Order

My 4th Gen iPod orders albums in Cover Flow by artist name, which I don't like to begin with, so firstly I'd like to know how to change this to by album title.
Also, even when it does order by artist name, it somehow works fine and then randomly puts a Simon and Garfunkel album right at the end, after 'Various Artists', meaning that particular album isn't even with the others I have by the same artists. This surely completely defeats the point of the artist name order, which I already don't want!
So even if there's no way to change the artist name order thing, I'd like some ideas on why it doesn't work with that one album please!
Can anyone help me?

I had this issue but managed to sort it...
Cover Flow was putting albums to the "back" of the list. All of the albums that were being put at the back were being classed by iTunes as compilations.
Even if the album is not in reality a compilation it will be listed as such by iTunes if it has any tracks with "artist 1 Feat. artist 2".
e.g.
Sting's album "Sacred Love" has a track with "Sting Feat. Mary J. Blige"
This meant iTunes classed the album as a compilation... (even if you change the artist details to remove the "Feat. artist" iTunes still classes it as a compilation... very frustrating!)
_To resolve the issue_
You will need to do this for each album individually (i.e. each album that is being sent to the back of the list) and it needs to be done in the main music library NOT in the playlists that you are syncing...
Highlight the album (all the tracks on that one album)
Go to "get info" (under "File" for any newbies :))
Select "NO" in the "compilations" box.
This should solve the problem

Cover flow albums show songs from multiple albums

I love my iPod classic. the only issue I'm having is that when reviewing some albums via the coverflow feature, about 5 albums shows songs from multiple albums. they play correctly. It appears just the listing is messed up. I've tried deleting, adding the albums back to the library and resyncing, but it's still happening. Anybody seen this?

Try *One cover, too many tracks* below:
*HowTo: Grouping Tracks Into Albums*
Excuse the long post, but hopefully covering all the bases (that I can think of) will help you fix the other issues you are likely to run into as you try to organise your iTunes library.
*Use an album friendly view*
iTunes will let you sort music on many columns, some of which are unlikely to group albums together or put the tracks in their normal order. The most useful order for editing the library is probably *Album by Artist*. If you're not already there, select the list view and click on the column heading for Artist until it reads Album by Artist.
*One cover, too many tracks*
The iPod (and iTunes to a lesser extent) conflates two or more albums with the same title, most obviously with *Greatest Hits*. On the iPod this can result in one album acting as a combination of two or more. Selecting any cover gives all the tracks of all albums with the same title. The workaround for this "Greatest Hits" bug is to give each album a unique title - I tend to go for *Album - Album Artist* as this reads clearly in the iTunes browser. Alternatively you could use the wording as it appears on the cover or append different numbers of spaces for each different album. Somewhat oddly, setting different values for Sort Album doesn't work.
*Missing Artist or Album not with others by same artist*
iTunes relies on the Gracenote CDDB database when identifying CD's. This often marks collections or anthologies of an artist's work as a compilation. In iTunes, however, the compilation flag has the logical function of grouping together tracks with the same album name, but different artists on each track, e.g. "Now That's What I Call Metal 666!". These compilations are then all grouped together at the end of cover flow. Most of us however, would expect "Greatest Hits" albums to be listed with the other albums by the same album artist. For albums which are essentially by a single album artist or group it is best to set the appropriate value for the album artist and clear the compilation flag.
*One album, too many covers*
For true compilations, where each track is by a different artist, the answer is to set the compilation flag to true and enable the iTunes preference to *Group compilations when browsing*. If the album is not a compilation however, any tracks which list guest artists may be treated as separate items. Filling in the Album Artist field is enough to link things in iTunes. Sadly, however, the iPod ignores the Album Artist field when grouping albums so this is only a partial solution. You can simply mark the entire album as a compilation which seems to be the way iTMS handles it, however that's not an ideal fix. Short of waiting for Apple to address this issue (and as far as I can tell it goes back to the 1st gen. of iPods) we need a workaround. What I do is to put any additional artist info. in square brackets after the song name. E.g. *Track \[Feat. Guest\]* and then set *Artist=Album Artist* for each track. For anthologies where the Album Artist is credited as part of another group, e.g. for Cream tracks on an Eric Clapton anthology, I use *Track \[As Group\]*. For a track where the main Album Artist doesn't receive a credit, e.g. the first track of the Slim Shady LP credited to Jeff Bass, I just set the track name to *Track \[Guest\]* while still setting the artist to the album artist. N.b. I use square brackets to indicate that this is information about the track as distinct from the song title and also use this style for Mix/Live/Bonus info.
*One album, still too many covers*
iTunes may split albums into two or more sections if some tracks from the album have different values for Artist, Album Artist, Album, No. of Discs or Part of a Compilation. Tiny differences such as trailing spaces, accented characters or variants of symbols can sometimes be quite hard to spot. The iPod is also more sensitive to case variations and may split or reorder an album that looks okay in iTunes. Normally overtyping the desired value for each shared field will complete the grouping of the album into one entity. Occasionally, however, this method seems to fail. When this happens I've found that you can force every field to update properly by adding some extra text - e.g. a trailing X, which once applied seems to complete the joining of the tracks into one album. Once this has happened the extra data can be removed and the album should remain properly grouped.
*Tried that, there are STILL too many covers!*
The Sort Artist, Sort Album & Sort Album Artist fields can be used to override the normal sort order. For example iTunes automatically drops leading articles (a/an/the) so "The Beatles" are arranged under "B" instead of "T". Occasionally different tracks from the same album can have different values in these sort fields which can also break up the grouping. Making the sort columns visible in iTunes can help with spotting & correcting such problems.
*One cover for multi-disc album*
Multi-disc albums are often listed as *Album (CD1)* for CD 1, *Album (CD2)* for CD 2 etc. To display these properly using just one cover, each disc should have the correct *Disc X of Y* values set, and then the entire album should be given the single title Album. Being somewhat obsessive I also renumber the tracks sequentially, working backwards from the last track (so that no two tracks ever have the same number) until I reach disc 1. BTW You can still give the individual discs different artwork should it be relevant so that the correct artwork will be displayed as the album progresses.
*One artist, many names*
With some artists, particularly classical composers, you should be aware of alternative representations of their names. E.g. 2Pac vs. Tupac. The menus will work best if for each artist you standardise on just one form of their name. E.g. make a choice between Mozart, W.A. Mozart or Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and then apply it consistently. For classical music I tend also to use the Composer as the Artist & Album Artist and either discard the performer details or place these into the Comments field.
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From Cover Flow repeat / play album only?

Is there a way to have iTunes play/repeat just an album when selected via Cover Flow?
(It's probably just me not seeing the option.)
When one selects an album via 'Grid View -> Albums' only that album and its songs get selected. That's exactly what I'd like to have when selecting the album via Cover Flow.
However if that an album is selected via Cover Flow, this album and all songs following are listed.
Playing the album ends up playing everything... Yet I'd only like to repeat-play that album.
Checking/Unchecking all songs individually (even via shift-cmd) to select just the album songs for play is not my idea of a good solution.

There are two ways I know, but one is clunky and the other could be very time-consuming to set up.
1) Make sure all the tracks in your library are unchecked. Then, check only the tracks in the album you want to play. You can use Uncheck All to do the first part, and then select the album tracks, right-click on one of them and click Check Selected. Or you can click the checkmarks on individually. Then, if you select the first album track and click Play iTunes will play through all the tracks that are checked and then stop. I haven't tried doing this with repeat, but it should repeatedly play the album tracks in sequence.
2) You could build a playlist for every album you want to play through. Then, to play the album play the playlist.
Unfortunately, iTunes does not provide a "play album" control. Perhaps Apple sees playing albums through in this manner like CDs or (worse) vinyl LPs as hopelessly 20th Century and something to be discouraged?

Cover flow anomalies - turingtest2 are you watching?

Hi,
I have been following several threads about cover flow (turingtest2 did a very good job of explaining things), but still can't seem to get my head around it.
Is it possible, in cover flow on the ipod, to only display a compilation album cover once. At the moment (amongst many other compilations) I have "Party in the park 2002" showing 13 times - once for each individual artist. I have tried several various sorts in the "Get Info, Sort tab" but all to no avail!
Appreciate any help
regards

Have you got iTunes set up to group compilations? Open the iTunes menu item *Edit > Preferences* and on the General tab check *Group compilations when browsing*. Here are the steps I would take to organise the album. The album you mentioned is a 2 disc set. Make sure that all the tracks of disc 1 are set as *Disc 1 of 2* and disc 2 set to *Disc 2 of 2*. Find a track with artwork, right-click (option-click) on the artwork panel and select Copy. Select all the tracks on the album and *Get info*. Right-click (option-click) on the artwork panel and select Paste, explicitly change the value of Compilation to Yes, set the Album Artist to *Various Artists* and set the album title to *Party In The Park 2002*. It shouldn't matter for sorting in cover flow but you probably want to have the same year & genre across the album. The *Sort album* & *Sort album artist* fields should be empty for all tracks across this album.
Another habit I have (not necessary but looks nicer in iTunes) is to renumber the tracks. Starting with the last track (I do it from this end to avoid ever having two tracks with the same number) I change it's track number to the total no. of tracks across all the discs. I then click the Previous button with the mouse, type in the previous track no. and repeat. My PC runs fairly slowly but I can type & click for 10 tracks and then let the display catch up. When I get to disc 1, I select all the tracks and set the *No. of tracks* to the total no.
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Art shows in itunes cover flow & album view but not on ipod

I spent several hours downloading cover art to itunes for albums where the art couldn't be automatically retrieved by itunes. I'd browse through album view, and for every album that had no art, I'd (a) select the album by clicking on the default music-note image and thus activate the drag-and-drop target in the lower left, and (b) drag some art from a website. When I was done with this, all the albums for which I downloaded art would properly show art in the itunes cover flow and in album view mode.
For the iPod (a 160GB Classic), I deselected "display album art on your ipod", hit "apply" to have it delete the art, then reselected and applied again, and itunes went through the process of formating and downloading the art to the ipod.
Now, however, the iPod still only shows the artwork that had been automatically retrieved; all the art I had added manually won't show. Back in itunes, I notice that it looks like my process for downloading the art only resulted in the art being applied to one song per album, as far as I can tell randomly selected. If, in album view, I select each song individually, the art will show in the lower left corner (and in "get info") only for one of the songs; on one album it might be track 1 while on another it might be track 7. However this is enough for itunes to show the art for the whole album, and also to show the art in cover flow.
Is there any automatic way to synchronize the art over a whole album, or at least to get it to download to the ipod so that it shows in cover flow and album view on the device as well as on the computer? I had to download art for about 190 albums; it would be a real drag to have to do that again.

Ok, here is the method I used. Another member gave this to me. It has worked for my iTunes library, and hopefully my ipod on the next sync.
I opened iTunes and Safari, with Safari on Amazon.com (to get the art). I would play any song from an album and command-click the each song in the album. Once each song is highlighted, I hit command-I to change info. I then dragged the art from Safari to the small box on the right of the smaller info change screen. This resulted in every song highlighted displaying the same artwork.
I hope this helps.

Capitalization errors in iTunes 7.2 Cover Flow view

iTunes 7.2 running under OS X 10.4.9 on MBP. Today I ripped a brand new cd to iTunes and two very strange things happened. One is that after ripping, I downloaded the cover art from iTunes and then decided to erase the downloaded artwork, but it still shows up in Cover Flow view. Nothing shows up for the individual files when I look at them individually with Get Info inside iTunes; there's no artwork shown to delete, yet it's still there in Cover Flow. I deleted the ripped music and emptied the Trash, reripped the cd, did NOT download the new album art, and it was still there in Cover Flow view! How could that possibly happen?
The other weird thing is that the workaround I used to fix capitalization errors in Cover Flow view no longer works. The cd I ripped is titled "Myths and Legends" but I changed it to "Myths And Legends". It shows up correctly on the individual tracks but "And" remains uncapitalized in Cover Flow view. The old workaround was to simply add any new character to the album name, e.g. "MMyths And Legend", apply that change, and then reedit to take out the extra "M". Stubbornly, this no longer works! After taking the extra "M" back out, the "And" remains uncapitalized in Cover Flow view. I think 7.2 introduced a bug that breaks this fix and leaves the original bug in tact. Can anyone verify this?
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Over at Dougs:
http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/searchTheScripts.php
You will find a script which fixes all the "cap" issues. Try it on a few for a test. Beware of classical music though as it gets funky with stuff like "EMI", etc. breaks it to "Emi".
Cheers, S.

Cover flow on ipod classic 160gb 6th gen

I was just given an ipod classic 160gb 6th gen, it the previous owners music on it, so I hooked it up to itunes & restored it & updated it to factory settings & put my name on it. I noticed in cover flow mode, that albums are doubled, one for the entire album, then the album cover again for individual songs. when I go to album view, the albums show up ok, there are no double ups there. I also notice when I scroll down to the now playing with the split screen, it comes up blank with no cover art. I had an 80gb 5th gen ipod & everything seemed ok. I wiped it clean with a restore as well to start fresh. It took about an hour & a half to sync over my music library from my external hard drive to my new 160 gb 6th gen ipod. It seems to play ok, so far, I just got it today, & I have been playing it on & off to try it out.
I am running itunes 9.0.1.8. Also when I plug in my ipod, itunes ops up with an update message for me to update, I click ok for the update, but nothing seems to happen, so I do not know if itunes has updated or not.
Message was edited by: Sossity

Sossity wrote:
Ok, should I try the trialing X, for those persistent multi covers that do not respond to adjusting the track names as first suggested? I went to your tips page & saw the graphic for that. Is it ok to just leave the Xs in or must they be removed?
iTunes tries to be "smart" and only updates the tag if it thinks you've changed something. Adding the X is a temporary measure to force iTunes to acknowlege that something has changed and thereby hopefully merge the album. Once it's done you can get rid of the unecessary trailing Xs.
I also looked at your image for handling multi discs, will this group multi discs together in cover flow?
Yes, that's the point.
& when one is playing a multi disc set, will the ipod just go straight to the next disc (disc 2) in playback as though it were one single album?
Yes.
or will playback stop at the last track of disc 1 & then one would have to select disc 2 to play.
No.
Will the multi disc set still come up as 2 different discs to selct to play? I may not want to start with disc 1.
No. You can always chose which track to start playing.
One of the albums I was having trouble with multi covers was part of a 2 disc set, disc 1 was credited to the main artist, but had guest artists for 1/2 the tracks, disc 2 was by the same artist with no guest artists. I have now gotten disc 1 to show as a single cover in cover flow by checking off part of a compilation in the info panel, but it does not appear next to disc 2 in cover flow.
Again setting *Part of a compilation" is the wrong approach. Set *Part of a compilation* to No, put your guest artist info. into the track titles (or any other scheme you choose) and make sure that the Artist value is consistent for all tracks.
on an off note, I notice when I press my ipod button or navigate any of its features, there is a slight grinding noise, I can hear the hard drive, when I bring it close to my ear, it sounds like a chewing mouse is this ok/normal to hear slight noises? it seems to be functioning alright. It is pretty responsive.
Yes, the noise from disc activity is normal. My iPod lives in a silcone sleeve which probably muffles it a bit and most of the time I'll have already have music playing so I'm rarely conscious of the noise of hard drive activity but it is there.
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'Cover flow 'display splits albums

When I view my albums in 'grid' format all are shown individually & correctly, but when I switch to 'cover flow' the albums split showing many covers of the same album each carrying a track from that album.
Is this a 'bug' or am I doing something wrong?

Thanks cynic and DucMike, but that wouldn't explain why the display in 'cover flow & 'grid' are different in terms of slitting albums.
BUT!! Cynic, I think you may have hit on something here and a confession I have to make.
I tag all my albums as follows:- The artist in 'Album' tag and the name of the track or album in the tag 'Album artist'!
Why? Because this way I get the name of the artist displayed above the track/ album which is the way I want to view them. It wuld seem though that produces the splitting effect I refer to.
For example The Beatles Abbey Road. In grid format, one album cover displayed. In cover flow, about a dozen covers scattered around.
I will try to re-tag this album and see if this changes the display in cover flow. Suspect it may do!
Thanks again cynic.
If anyone knows how to get the artist displayed above the album title and still enter the correct info' in the correct tags then please help!

Hi. I am having an issue with music on my Ipod. It would probably be easier to explain my specific issue: I have songs by Band of Horses from Cease to Begin. When viewing my albums through cover flow, it shows Cease To Begin as two separate albums, one wi

Hi. I am having an issue with music on my IPod. It would probably be easier to explain my specific issue: I have songs by Band of Horses from Cease to Begin. When viewing my albums through cover flow, it shows Cease To Begin as two separate albums, one with only Islands on the Coast, and the other having Islands on the Coast with 3 other songs. If I delete the album with only one song from my IPod, it deletes the song from the other "album" as well. If I go to "All Songs" by Band of Horses, it only shows one Islands on the Coast, so it is not a duplicate issue. Also, in Itunes, it only shows one album. I just recently updated to iOS5 on my 4th Gen IPod Touch, if that helps.

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I recently converted to Mavericks. I'm finding that when I view files in 'cover flow' and delete a file from the list the picture of the file does not simultaneously delete and so become out of sync with the list. Anyone have this problem? a solution?

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