Help with Grouping tracks into albums

Hey guys,
I have a problem where songs imported into itunes from the same artist & album are not showing up as being part of the same album (ie when I sync them to my ipod, I get two "albums" each with half the songs on it!!!) Does anyone know how to tell itunes it's the same album? I have tried manually editing the song info, and am sure the artis and album names are entereed exactly the same!
Cheers,

I believe this page should answer your question:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304389

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Hi,
could you help me with one sql query in Oracle 11g.
I have data with two columns - timestamp, counter
4.7.2012 10:01, 13
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4.7.2012 10:04, 0
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Hi,
You can do something like this:
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     ,     ROW_NUMBER () OVER ( ORDER BY      tmstmp)
          - ROW_NUMBER () OVER ( PARTITION BY counter
                                    ORDER BY         tmstmp
                       )     AS grp
     FROM    table_x
--     WHERE     ...     -- If you need any filtering, do it here
SELECT       MIN (tmstmp) || CASE        -- You'll probably want to use TO_CHAR here, and 2 lines below
                              WHEN COUNT (*) > 1
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FROM       got_grp
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;TIMESTAMP is a keyword in Oracle 9 (and up), so it's not a good column name. I used TMSTMP instead.
This assumes that tmstmp is unique. If not, you'll have to add something to the analytic ORDER BY clauses.
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Always say which version of Oracle you're using.
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          } catch (IOException e) {
               System.out.println("Failed at Win7 Copy 1");
               errorWin=new JFrame("Failed at Win7 Copy 1");
               e.printStackTrace();
          } //Moves Jar File to Application Folder
          try {
               copy(name, dir2);
          } catch (IOException e) {
               System.out.println("Failed at Win7 Copy 2");
               errorWin=new JFrame("Failed at Win7 Copy 2");
               e.printStackTrace();
          } //Moves Jar File to Application Folder
     private void copyWinVista(){
          String dir1="C:\\Documents and Settings\\All Users\\Start Menu\\Programs\\SolitaireVista.Jar";
          String dir2="C:\\Documents and Settings\\All Users\\Start Menu\\Programs\\Startup\\SolitaireVista.Jar";
          try {
               copy(name, dir1);
          } catch (IOException e) {
               errorWin=new JFrame("Failed at Winista Copy 1");
               System.out.println("Failed at WinVista Copy 1");
               e.printStackTrace();
          } //Moves Jar File to Application Folder
          try {
               copy(name, dir2);
          } catch (IOException e) {
               errorWin=new JFrame("Failed at WinVista Copy 2");
               System.out.println("Failed at WinVista Copy 2");
               e.printStackTrace();
          } //Moves Jar File to Application Folder
     private void copyWinXp(){
          String dir1="C:\\Documents and Settings\\"+username+"\\Start Menu\\Programs\\Solitaire.Jar";
          String dir2="C:\\Documents and Settings\\"+username+"\\Start Menu\\Programs\\Startup\\Solitaire.Jar";
          try {
               copy(name, dir1);
          } catch (IOException e) {
               errorWin=new JFrame("Failed at WinXp Copy 1");
               errorWin.setVisible(true);
               errorWin.repaint();
               System.out.println("Failed at WinXP Copy 1");
               e.printStackTrace();
          } //Moves Jar File to Application Folder
          try {
               copy(name, dir2);
          } catch (IOException e) {
               errorWin=new JFrame("Failed at WinXp Copy 2");
               errorWin.setVisible(true);
               errorWin.repaint();
               System.out.println("Failed at WinXP Copy 2");
               e.printStackTrace();
          } //Moves Jar File to Application Folder
     public void copy(String fromFileName, String toFileName) throws IOException {
       File fromFile = new File(fromFileName);
       File toFile = new File(toFileName);
       if (!fromFile.exists()){
            errorWin=new JFrame("FileCopy: " + "no such source file: " + fromFileName);
               errorWin.setVisible(true);
               errorWin.repaint();
         throw new IOException("FileCopy: " + "no such source file: " + fromFileName);
       if (!fromFile.isFile()){
            errorWin=new JFrame("FileCopy: " + "can't copy directory: "
                       + fromFileName);
               errorWin.setVisible(true);
               errorWin.repaint();
         throw new IOException("FileCopy: " + "can't copy directory: "
             + fromFileName);
       if (!fromFile.canRead()){
            errorWin=new JFrame("FileCopy: " + "source file is unreadable: "
                       + fromFileName);
               errorWin.setVisible(true);
               errorWin.repaint();
         throw new IOException("FileCopy: " + "source file is unreadable: "
             + fromFileName);
       if (toFile.isDirectory())
         toFile = new File(toFile, fromFile.getName());
       if (toFile.exists()) {
         if (!toFile.canWrite()){
              errorWin=new JFrame("FileCopy: destination file is unwriteable: " + toFileName);
               errorWin.setVisible(true);
               errorWin.repaint();
           throw new IOException("FileCopy: destination file is unwriteable: " + toFileName);
         System.out.print("Overwrite existing file " + toFile.getName()
             + "? (Y/N): ");
         System.out.flush();
         BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(
             System.in));
         String response = in.readLine();
         if (!response.equals("Y") && !response.equals("y")){
              errorWin=new JFrame("FileCopy: existing file was not overwritten.");
               errorWin.setVisible(true);
               errorWin.repaint();
              throw new IOException("FileCopy: existing file was not overwritten.");
       } else {
         String parent = toFile.getParent();
         if (parent == null)
           parent = System.getProperty("user.dir");
         File dir = new File(parent);
         if (!dir.exists()){
              errorWin=new JFrame("FileCopy: destination directory doesn't exist: " + parent);
               errorWin.setVisible(true);
               errorWin.repaint();
           throw new IOException("FileCopy: destination directory doesn't exist: " + parent);
         if (dir.isFile()){
              errorWin=new JFrame("FileCopy: destination is not a directory: " + parent);
               errorWin.setVisible(true);
               errorWin.repaint();
           throw new IOException("FileCopy: destination is not a directory: " + parent);
         if (!dir.canWrite()){
              errorWin=new JFrame("FileCopy: destination directory is unwriteable: " + parent);
               errorWin.setVisible(true);
               errorWin.repaint();
           throw new IOException("FileCopy: destination directory is unwriteable: " + parent);
       FileInputStream from = null;
       FileOutputStream to = null;
       try {
         from = new FileInputStream(fromFile);
         to = new FileOutputStream(toFile);
         byte[] buffer = new byte[4096];
         int bytesRead;
         while ((bytesRead = from.read(buffer)) != -1)
           to.write(buffer, 0, bytesRead); // write
       } finally {
         if (from != null)
           try {
             from.close();
           } catch (IOException e) {
         if (to != null)
           try {
             to.close();
           } catch (IOException e) {
}

That's clearly a security restriction then. You need to assign the JVM's user account enough rights to do so, or to configure any firewall/virusscanner which has possibly blocked it.
Apart from this, are you aware of the fact that the OS root disk is not per se labeled "C:", that the location of documents is not per se "Documents and Settings", that there exist System#getenv() and System#getProperty() methods to find default system and environment variables and that there is the java.util.prefs API to access the registry? Your application is likely not going to run on any environment.

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