Group Soundtrack albums

Anyone know how I can group my movie soundtracks into the original album, any of the ones I have imported are grouped by the artists name and so the album is scattered through my library

Try marking the album as a compilation (under Get Info) or select all tracks and put something in the field for Album Artist (not to be confused with Artist field). Oftentimes people put Various Artists for the Album Artist in cases like this.

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Trying to group by album and list by track

I just added a soundtrack to my iTunes 8 and it's got multiple artists. When I originally DL'ed the album to my computer, the "artist" part of the tag was blank. I filled in the correct artists and then imported the album to iTunes. I click on the "Album" column at the top of the grid to place my library in album order. My songs are now grouped by album. Within those albums, the songs are all in track order except for this one soundtrack. It's songs are in alphabetical order by artist. How do I get them in order by track? Thanks.

i8acobra wrote:
If I set "artist" to "various" how will I be able to play songs by artist in my car?
Please read my post again. I suggested you *Set _Album Artist_ = Various Artists*, and by implication, that you leave Artist alone. If you do this & follow the other steps I proposed you will find each artist listed independently on the iPod.
If I use "get info" to set the artist to "various" will it change the ID3 tag on the file or does "get info" only tell iTunes what info to use?
Get Info reads and/or sets the tag of the file. As I said the Compilation is am iTunes only flag (thought is too is stored in the tag). iTunes stores certain properties that are generally volatile such as Play Count, Rating, Date Added in it's own internal database but, where the file type supports a tag, generic properties such as Album, Artist, Track No, etc. are stored in the file as well.
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I lost all of my Itunes music because of an infection that required them to wipe my computer. I am trying to get the music back from multiple sources. What I have recovered is a mess. Albums are mixed or songs not grouped as album. Help?

My computer got infected with some terrible virus. I contacted the manufacturer and they said the only thing to do was wipe the whole thing. I could not back it up bec this mess?ause it would include the infection. I have been trying to recover the lost music from several different places. A friend tried to help me by putting all of his music on my computer from his external hard drive. That was very nice of him but now it is a terrible mess. The recovered songs are not grouped into albums correctly. Some albums are mixed - every other song is from the other album. Some songs are listed separately and not grouped as an album. I tried to ask iTunes to find album art work and it has been running that for over 48 hours. Is that possible? When I try to stop it I get a message that says I will lose all the data. I admit that I am not very tech. savvy and I really don't know what I am doing. It took me more than 20 years to make that collection and I am heart broken. Do you have any ideas about how I start to fix

Unfortunately you've discovered too late how important it is to maintain an up-to-date backup of your iTunes library (and all other data of value). You could, before wiping the drive, have considered making use of a commercial data recovery service that could (albeit at considerable cost) have extracted your library from the hard disk, even if virus infected.
In the absence of that option, you will need to restore the content of your library from its original sources:
Depending on your location, you may be able to re-download any iTunes Store purchases that are still available on the Store
Likewise, most digital purchases from Amazon (including auto-rip copies of purchased CDs) should be available from the Amazon Cloud and via the Amazon Music application - the same may be true of other commercial sources for digital downloads
Content imported from your CDs will have to imported again
The specific situation that you describe regarding the music imported from your friend's external HDD suggests that either the source is badly organized and/or originates from a source other than iTunes (other media players may use alternative tags for information like artist, title, album, etc. that are not wholly consistent with how iTunes handle these). Without details of the issues you're seeing it is difficult to suggest a remedy other than going through the media album-by-album, track-by-track, and correcting the inconsistencies.
In the absence of a backup or access to the original library data there is no option other than painstakingly recreating your library as described above. As you do so, you'll now realize how important creating and maintaining backups are - in my case I have at all times three separate duplicates of my library, in two different locations, where none is ever more than a week old compared to the content of my master library.

Is there a way to sort songs into alphabetical order under artist as opposed to being grouped by album?

Hi all.
After a long overdue update to my ipod touch I've noticed that when I select an artist my songs are now grouped by album as opposed to alphabetically. Wondering if its possible to change this as I cant find any options or information on this myself.
Thanks.

If you find the music sorting order as annoying as I think most people do, let apple know at:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/

Grouping whole albums/CD's (am I missing something here)

My problem is this.
I want to group whole ALBUMS/CD'S by category--MY categories.
Clicking the Genre column to sort does work for "Classical" ( a one-genre group), but in my current tunes, the Genre's are too diverse--and weird. I have a favorite hard rock that is flagged "Dance"--it just won't sort by Genre into the right group.
Is there way to create SUB groups under "Music" where WHOLE ALBUMS can be browsed with the "flow" album art icons: Class, Rap, Pop, etc.--not tied to Genre.
The folders and Playlists only contain tunes, as I see it now. I'm a novice at this, but building a iTune collection fast, and about to move to a new iPod Touch.
I need some order here, to get what I want easily.

Okay, I get dummy of the month award.
I think I've answered my own question-with a little more chutzpah= SMART Playlists, a perfectly programable, tunable list--that keeps on giving (or gathering--"set it and forget it")
So, #1, typical newcomer jerk error--"moving to fast".
I never bothered to figure out what a Smart Playlist was, OR when I read it, I didn't see how it could work for me, sheer disconnect. Infomation overload. "Babe in the woods" syndrome
#2. less egregious error, I didn't pick up everyone of the new features in Verision 7 right off, or press beyond the DEFAULT settings.
I was troubled that I couldn't browse by album art as in MUSIC. Well, that's the Default view in Music.
The default view in Playlist is "plain vanilla" -- just tunes.
So a little INTELLIGENT poking around did the trick.
End of discussion. I think I'm good to go, and more impressed than ever with this brilliant, wizardy, visually gorgeous, supremely helpful "toy" ("tool" to you guys with the green eye shades).
Thanks!

A soundtrack album i bought is skipping

Hey iTunes I bought the soundtrack album to step up revolution and I have had it for a couple of months. And now I am recently finding out the the first three songs have glitches in them, meaning that they play the music for 3 seconds then it goes totally quiet then I hear nothing for awhile before it suddenly just skips over to the next song and does the same thing for the next to songs until it skips to the fourth song and then it starts to play the songs normally. Would it be possible to receive a redownload of the album so as not to experience this song glitching again. I did receive the receipt for the purchase of the album but I no longer have the receipt. Your help will be most appreciated.
Sincerely
Apple Customer

You're not talking to Apple. This is a user forum.
You can re-download music purchases at no charge. Just delete the tracks from your device (or iTunes), go to the iTunes store, and look at your purchases.

When i delete and album or group of albums do they go intoa hidden recycle bin

when i delete and album or group of albums on my IPod by using the delete function do they go into a hidden recycle bin (taking up valuable space on my Device) which I then need to empty at some point..if so how do I do this Please? thanks

They should be totally delete and free up that storage space. However, sometimes that does not happen and they become "other"

Managing soundtrack albums with different artists

I have a number of albums, such as soundtracks, with multiple artists, but I can't seem to figure out how to keep the album together as a whole without losing the individual artists. For example, I want all the songs from the Dreamgirls soundtrack in one place so I can shuffle just that album when I want to, but when I'd like to shuffle all my Jennifer Hudson songs, I'd like her Dreamgirls songs to be included there too when I sort by artist, you know? I've been playing around with the artist, album artist, and sorting options, but I haven't found what I need yet. It always works in one way, but not both.
Has anyone figured out how to do that?
Thanks,
Hans

A song on a compilation will be included in the list of albums/songs for a given artist, in Artists view, if the following conditions are true:
the album is classified as "part of a compilation"
the Album Artist value is blank
the Group Compilations setting in the Artist dropdown at the top right of the screen:
is unchecked.
Example (not a soundtrack, but the data is comparable): when these conditions are true in the metadata for "The Best Prog Rock Album The World ... Ever!" album and the current view settings are as above, I get this:
i.e., the one track on the album by Jethro Tull is listed at the end of the grouping of other albums by the same artist.

How to group Soundtracks or Compilations?

I don't understand why but iTunes is showing my Soundtracks [with different artists] as 12-13 different albums, each with it's own album cover.
How do I get iTunes to group these types of albums [and Compilations] with many different artists as ONE ALBUM?
I'm using the latest iTunes 10.1.2

See http://samsoft.org.uk/iTunes/grouping.asp
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I just bought the Guardians of the galaxy soundtrack album yesterday but now the album cover is missing

I bought the Guardians of the galaxy soundtrack yesterday and the album cover was the same that it was on itunes. But now I look at the album. The album cover is completely different.
Please help

hey! yeah i do have an ipod but the songs never made it to my computer at all! I set it up to download the rest of the album as i moved my older music to the external hd and then when i got that done, it was gone, i did a search on my comp of the songs and stuff and its no where to be found in my computer, itunes, or even the recycle bin on the comp!! i emailed the support group from apple and they havent responded yet. Anyone else have any ideas as to how i can either get my songs or get my money back?
thanks!
Amanda

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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Album track not grouped with album

I imported 4 (all) tracks from a CD. 3 of the tracks are now grouped with the album in the Music/Album view. One track is off by itself. I made sure the album name was exactly the same but copying and pasting it to the 4th track. Anyone know how to get it in with the rest of the album?

Hi, Jeff.
Have a look at this article in the Apple Knowledge Base.
My hunch is that the Album Artist field may be the cause of your problem.

Trick to group multiple albums into one?

Ive got about 20 albums from one artist and it takes up a huge amount of space in the album view.
Is there a trick, other than changing all the names of the album to group them all into one?

Maybe you are missing the "artist view" of the library it does what you expect: gives you a list of artist, clicking it gives you a view of all the albums of the artist
You could also change sort album to e.g. collection for all interested albums, give each album a disc number, set for all albums the right overall disc number and album (collection) artist.
I haven't tried it before...

Grouping Compilation albums together

I have a number of different albums that have different artists on them. I want to go in on my iPod and listen to the whole album all the way through, but when I go to it in "albums" it's listed severel different times and each is by a different artist from the album. Is there any way to group it all as one album even though it has more than one artist? I've tried checking the box "part of a compilation" and "sort by album" those don't seem to work. Thoughts and ideas?

Every song on the album needs to be marked as "Part of a compilation" and also, in the Album Artist box, type in "Various Artists". The screenshot below shows the box highlighted when looking at several songs at the same time:
If tyou use Sync to manage your iPod, the next Sync will add that change to it.
If you use Manually Manage, then you will need to remove the album from the iPod first, make the changes in your iTunes Library and then put back the changed version.

Same group same album broken into two albums

I have the apple ipad. And I put an album say styx cornerstone on my ipad when I click for albums styx cornerstone is broken into two or more albums. How doI put all these broken up songs into one that when I click on styx cornerstone ALL the songs from that album show?

124sport wrote:
This answer doesn't seem to work for the latestiTunes 11.1.12. Or does it?
Yes the advice is still good, even if the graphics could do with an update.
No need to convert file formats, which will involve a loss of quality, just work through the various topics in the article Grouping Tracks Into Albums until the problem is resolved. Adding and then removing a trailling X usually sorts out tricky ones but if you get really stuck I can go into details with a specific album if you supply the screenshots of what is going wrong.
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Group Soundtrack albums

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