Importing songs in albums

does anyone know how to change how iTunes imports songs so that in the itunes music folder they;re sorted/stored in album folders rather than artist folders?

You cannot.
Actually, they are stored in Artist then Album folders.

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When importing songs of a same album but different artist iTunes will separate the artists. How can I bring all together in the same album?

When importing songs of a same album but different artist iTunes will separate the artists. How can I bring all together in the same album?

Generally setting a common Album Artist will fix things. For deeper problems see Grouping tracks into albums.
tt2

How can I import songs which are filed basis one album/compilation as one folder?

How can I import songs which are filed basis one album/compilation as one folder?
i can drag and drop one folder which is a proper album into itunes under playlist. if i drag and drop two proper albums into itunes it is also ok but if itunes does not know my own compliations and i drag and rop my 3000 folders in one shot into itunes i get only one playlist containing all songs.
pleased to hear if anybody know how i can avoid to do 3000 times drag and drop a folder into itunes.
rgds, alexander

Before you begin the import, edit the properties of the tracks to set the Album Artist to Various Artists and Part of a Compilation to Yes.
For more info. see Grouping tracks into albums.
tt2

HT4061 I need to sync my iphone and ipad to my new computer. I just downnloaded itunes in it. my song and album files are not in the new downloaded itunes. how do I import them in?

I just downloaded itunes on my new computer which uses Windows 7. I need to sync my ipone 4S and ipad to it. I noticed my complete song and album files are not in the new itunes. how do i get them imported to the new itunes. Would syncing my iphone and ipad do it?

In iTunes, go to File>Add File to Library or File>Add Folder to Library.

With using any version of iTunes, whenever I import songs into my library using the "add to library" function, iTunes adds those songs in songs' alphabetical order. This is pretty annoying since it does not preserve the logical track number or album.

With using any version of iTunes, whenever I import songs into my library using the "add to library" function, iTunes adds those songs in songs' alphabetical order. This is pretty annoying since it does not preserve the logical track number or even the album sort order (for example when adding 2 albums stored in a unique folder). Anyone has any ideas ? Been stumped for a while....!!!

hi i had the same problem today when i updated my itunes to latest version. however, i have just found my songs in the 'itunes media' folder. this was accessed through 'my music' then keep clicking through until you find itunes media and all my library songs were in there and i then just added these files to my library and all were restored however, i have lost all my playlists but at least my 700 songs are back. very dissapointed with apple that they have let this happen with their latest update, the previous version was miles better than this one . hope you find them. stevo

Can't transfer imported songs to playlist album

Hi I just imported songs from a cd into iTunes, I created an playlist album to put the songs in but when I select the imported songs and drag them to the playlist album nothing is transfered.
Please help
Mafalda

What kind of playlist is it? Is it a smart playlist or an ordinary one?
If it's an odinary one what I would do is find the album in ITUNES, highlight all the songs and right click so it brings up the menu of options. Scroll down and there should be an option that says "add to playlist".
If its a smart playlist, go to the playlist right click and edit play list. choose album is and then type in the album name.

How do I transfer imported songs, to one Album?

Hello, and sorry if this is a terrible, easy question to answer.
I recently purchased my new iPod, nano to be correct, and started to import songs. When I imported from a CD, it came up as:
Track 1
Track 2
Track 3
etc.
I want to convert, al this music into a album, how do I do this?
Many thanks.

With the CD selected try using Advanced > Get Track Names. If that doesn't work you'll have to input the data by hand. Each album needs, at minimum, a common Album title and Album Artist. Right click on the CD and Get Info to set these, then use Get Info on a single track and the next/previous buttons to enter the individual track names.
For more details see my article on Grouping Tracks Into Albums.
tt2

HT1535 how do i import an mp3 album as a whole in itunes? they are all as single songs in the itunes library

how do i import my mp3 albums in itunes as album and not single songs?

Hi yardy4ever,
Thanks for visiting Apple Support Communities.
You may need to edit the song information to include the album. See these articles for help:
iTunes 11 for Windows: Edit song and CD information
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH12360
Fixing Incorrect Song or Album Listings in iTunes
http://support.apple.com/kb/TA24677
All the best,
Jeremy

I can't get the album info when I'm trying to import songs from a cd. Any Help?

When I click on advanced-get track names it says Server Error. And when I import anyways and go to library and try to get info again it says can't connect to gracenote database or cddb is not available for some of these items. Which I know is not true because they are not hard to find cd's or whatever. I try with a few other cd's and still nothing same problem. What do I do? Reinstall Itunes or what?

Hi there,
I have included a couple of article below that should cover the process for importing the CDs and then syncing those to your iPhone. I would recommend reviewing it thuroughly as a lot has changed in iTunes 11.
iTunes 11 for Windows: Import songs from CDs
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH12486
iTunes 11 for Windows: Set up syncing for iPod, iPhone, or iPad
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH12313
-Griff W.

How do I import songs from ipad album app into itunes?

Hello,
I bought an 5 song ep music app by the Chinese musician Cao Fang (曹方) from iTunes app store, and I want to be able to hear the songs in iTunes, not just through using the iPad app. It doesn't show up in the File Sharing section. So is it possible to import the songs? Can I at least 'play' the app on my computer in iTunes, or is it only playable on the iPad itself?
Thanks!

Hi Nick,
I should work just as you imported songs into your iPod. Try opening your iPod in your ITunes. Once you can see your iPod songs just drag them to your library folder or what ever other folder you want them in.
Since your computer crashed are you using another computer? does it have iTunes and iPod software installed? What OS does it run (windows/Mac)?
Good Luck

ITunes imports songs from an audio CD, but will not play them. Why?

90% of my iTunes music library has come from importing old audio CDs into iTunes. I haven't imported any in a while, but I recently imported an audio album, iTunes recognized the artist and songs, imported into the library bu if I select one in iTunes for playing, it will not play.
The other song's in the library all still play fine so iTunes is working correctly. But the newly imported CD will not play. Seems very strange it recognizes the CD and imports it but will not play. No error, no message, no nothing. What gives?
Thanks.

I think the blue text means that Windows compressed the files when it did a disk cleanup or something. I might be wrong, because I haven't used that disk cleanup feautre in ages - it did things I didn't want it to do.
So google around and find out how to uncompress one, and see if it plays.

TS2776 Iphone library syncing only first song per album

Help, My Iphone was wiped after multiple failed password entry attempts, the phone was protected by NSA level security software, and after adding a Survivor protective case, I was mistyping one of the didgets.I was able to restore my purchased apps from my iTunes purchase history, but all of my music, short of a few songs were imported from my hundreds of CD's. My husband has the same music on his phone, yet not quite as much, as his phone is a 32, while mine is a 64. Rather than take the hours of Homesharing the music to my iTunes, since we both use backup drives for out computers, I thought it much simpler to simply plug his Back up into my PC, and copy the Music file to my iTuned folder.Yeas... This was quite abit faster, and all of the music is avaiable to listen to on my PC via iTunes.
Ok, here is my issue, When I sinc my phone all of the artists, as well as albums show up on my phone, however only the first song per album is available to play via the phone, all other songs have a square within a circle to the right of the song title, as if it is in download mode.
I turned on automatic download over wifi, and even tried clicking on the links showing, they change to a circle, and then teturn to cntaining a square, Is there a way to fix this issue, or do I have to go CD by CD and manually import the music all over again, as it will be several days work.
I normally consider myself to be very good at solving computer issues, but this has me baffled, has anyone got an idea ?

I've been having the same problem after I restored my iPhone. It's been nearly 8 months since vaporwave first posted this question and, so far, it hasn't been addressed by Apple in an update. It's sad that we have to find a workaround for this issue, especially because it's not the ideal solution (checking each artist probably means I'll end up with all of their songs, including some that I don't want in my iPhone).

Basic "why" quest. re: importing songs from CDs

When I put my CD in the eMac to import songs, the songs from the CD show up on the iTunes screen out of sequence. The song that is first on the original CD/album is now number 7, song 3 from the CD is now number 10, etc.
Why is this?
How do I put the songs back in the original order that they were in on the CD?
Also, how do I manually move songs in my iTunes Library? I know that iTunes will arrange the songs, but is there a way that I can override that?
Thanks!

Don't be afraid of the software. Poke around in the prefs and see what different options do. As long as you pay attention to what you are doing so you can put it back like it was you really can't hurt anything. And always remember the Cancel button. As you learn how the software works and why it does what it does you will become more confident and the next thing you know you'll have thousands of posts on this board and will be helping people every day.
As to rearranging the order of tracks... you can only sort tracks in the main Library by the columns (Name, Artist, Tracks, Album, etc.), not drag them into different orders. But Playlists are a different matter. In both Smart Playlists and static Playlists tracks can be sorted by clicking the column headers. But if you want the tracks in a certain order then click the column to the far left, the one that contains the numbers and you can then drag and drop the tracks into whatever order you want them to be in.

Music does not play thru library/no images in musicstore/can't import songs

i have upgraded to the new itunes, now i can't import songs from cd (i can play the songs) but when i try to import i get an error message. all images of album sleeves, pics etc. are just black in the music store and i can also not play the music on my ipod or in my library through itunes. i have reinstalled but still no luck. i can listen to cd's through my itunes, but no other music plays. help anyone?

wow the SAME thing just happened to me...
HELP...
Dell 4550 Windows XP

Vanishing or Disappearing Songs and Albums

I have a problem with iTunes that I can't work out how to fix.
Albums/songs that I have downloaded in the past appear in iTunes fine. Albums/songs that I am downloading now (either from a CD or online) appear in iTunes initally but then 'disappear' when I close iTunes and then reopen it. I am also unable to tansfer these albums/songs onto my iPod. I'm not really sure when this started happening but I haven't purposely changed anything on my computer. I can get them back by clicking on File/Add to Library but then the next time I close/open iTunes they have gone again.
I have searched on this forum and found some similar problems with people who have Vaio computers and have followed all the suggestions e.g. deleting Vaio media programmes, chaging Vaio services to manual in Task Manager and unistalling/reinstalling iTunes. None of this has made any difference (and I haven't had this problem the whole time I have had this computer).
Looking at the albums/songs in Windows explorer I have noticed a difference between the ones that don't vanish and the ones that do. If I right click on a song or album in the iTunes folder (which is on a NAS drive) and look at Security tab the the ones that don't disappear have different 'group or user names'. The ones that don't disappear have ' Everyone', 'Unix User\nobody' and 'Unix Group\nogroup' whilst the ones that do disappear have 'Everyone', 'Unix Group\users' and 'NAS-02-8A-5B\MyName'. Why is this? Does it matter? All of these group/user names have special permission and on closer inspection this means they can do everything.
One thing I can think of that has changed in the recent past is that I have a Roberts Stream 83i attached to the wireless network and this accessess my iTunes songs. Would this have an effect?
Please help. I don't know what to do now....
Thanks in advance.

Well, after literally hours of messing around with various things on my computer I have finally managed to sort it out and I thought I would post my findings here in case anyone else encounters the same problem.
First I updated the firmware on my Netgear ReadyNAS Duo to version 7. This solved the problem of encountering error messages every time I tried to import a CD - I was only able to download one song at a time. I'm not sure if this was related to the permissions problem or not.
Next I went to ReadyNAS Frontview and changed a setting in the Share Listing section to "Set ownership and permission for existing files and folders in this share to the above settings. This option is useful in cases where you are changing security levels and need to workaround file access problems".
This seems to have fixed everything. Not being very computer literate I'm not sure why so if anyone could enlighten me that would be great!
Dibsy

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