HT1473 CD with multiple artists downloads into iTunes as a separate album for each artist

I recently began having a problem when I added an audio CD to iTunes (downloaded from the CD drive). The CD was of an album by one artist, but a second artist joined him on track 1. iTunes downloaded this as two separate albums; one with tracks 2- 10 and the other with track 1. This hadn't happened before. I can't find a control concerning this. Thanks.

Try opening iTunes, navigating to the single song that is listed under the second artist and clik on it. Go to File>Get Info, on the Info tab change the Album Artist field to the other artist and click OK. See if that doesn't organize it with the other songs.

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_bilu_ wrote:
Yeah I would like to create a Playlist with the by me best rated songs of selected artists i know i can have playlists with multiple artists but that is only possible if i tick match any so that it takes all the songs of those artists and if i select match all there is no song in the playlist...
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HT1473 CD with multiple artists downloads into iTunes as a separate album for each artist

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