IPod group compilations

Hi,
Isn't it possible to group compilations in the iPod app on the iPad like on the iPhone for example? I find it distracting with all the artists from the compilations in the artist list.

Adding an album artist should hook up the album but the individual artists will still be listed in the artists menu. See my article on Grouping tracks into albums for more info.
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How do u get the Ipod touch to group compilations for browsing ?

How do u get the Ipod touch to group compilations for browsing ?
With Itunes 9 like earlier versions u have the option to group compilations for browsing, having the effect of not putting a huge list of artists in your view by artist list because they played one song on a compilation you have got. With my old Ipod classic this option was also available through the setting menu. Meaning my ipod exactly mirrored my itunes lists.
I have recently purchased a ipod touch 32 and can find no settings that allow me to do the same. My artist list has risen from 200 to 400 because of this and makes finding albums by artists very annoying.
I have looked on the itunes software and can find no mention of syncing this ability to the ipod either.
Help
Mike

Yes i do this to group compilations in itunes.
But when i then sync to the ipod touch the albums come up under compilations as desired but the artists also appear in the artist list which is not.
On my old ipod classic it had a setting to group compilations the same as in itunes which would then remove these odd artists from the artist list.
I can find no equivalent setting on the ipod touch
Cheers
Mike

Grouping compilations no longer works after adding artwork..!

Until yesterday I had never bothered with adding artwork to my itunes library as I had a gen 3 iPod that would not show it anyway. I have a new ipod so last night I decided to add artwork, this I did by getting what I could from Gracenote, the rest I have been dragging from images on Amazon and other sites. Ever since doing this the Group Compilations option no longer works, despite having this checkbox ticked in preferences and making sure that the yes box for part of a compilation is ticked for these albums. In addition, every song in a compilation album is displayed individually in the Cover Flow view option.
Is this a peculiarity of 7.2 or is there a way I can get this to work again? I am sure it is something to do with having added artwork as it was working fine before.
The help menu in itunes seems to have stopped working too now, which doesn't help...obviously!

Until yesterday I had never bothered with adding artwork to my itunes library as I had a gen 3 iPod that would not show it anyway. I have a new ipod so last night I decided to add artwork, this I did by getting what I could from Gracenote, the rest I have been dragging from images on Amazon and other sites. Ever since doing this the Group Compilations option no longer works, despite having this checkbox ticked in preferences and making sure that the yes box for part of a compilation is ticked for these albums. In addition, every song in a compilation album is displayed individually in the Cover Flow view option.
Is this a peculiarity of 7.2 or is there a way I can get this to work again? I am sure it is something to do with having added artwork as it was working fine before.
The help menu in itunes seems to have stopped working too now, which doesn't help...obviously!

Group Compilations When Browsing

I just got the new iPod Classic firmware update, and the group compilations option is still not fixed! Come on Apple! I have 733 artists without the compilations grouped and only 340 when they are grouped. If it's an option in iTunes, there's no reason for it not to be an option on my iPod, just like it was on the 5th generation! Those of us with huge libraries really need this option back, ASAP!

OK, I called tech support about the no compilations thing, and they told me to fill out a feedback form. He said that a lot of the firmware updates are dependent on what people ask for in those forms. So if everybody could start requesting the group compilations option, hopefully we can get it really soon. It will really help the messy coverflow as well.. until then, I guess I'm going to take all my compilations off my iPod!

Error with iTunes "The iPod Group Storage cannot be used with iTunes...."

I bought a usb hub to accomodate my multiple usb devices. I plugged my iPod into this and got the following error:
"The iPod Group Storage cannot be used with iTunes because it is not formatted properly."
I plugged the iPod into the computer rather than the hub. Same thing
Tried to restore, per the error message's direction. It says it has restored it to factory settings, then it brings up that message again.
I uninstalled and re-installed iTunes. Same thing. It was playing fine but it needs re-charging now and it won't because of the error.
Does anyone have any ideas? I don't know what to do now.
Thanks.

Try to reset your iPod using the recovery mode as described in this support article
However, this will erase the iPod completely. If you have an iTunes-backup on your computer you can restore your iPod settings later from the backup.
I have never tried this in WIndows, however. The procedure might be slightly differeent.

Group compilations in itunes 10

hello everybody.. i have just spent 3 hours reading post forums but nobody could really answear clearly about grouping compilations in itunes 10.
I have my library in an external disk, i have many compilations and now they are divided as artist.. how can I group all in the ORIGINAL compilation list and have them in order like out Itune or the original album pleaseeee
thanks a lot

Same problem here. And I thought I'd I figure out how to deal with it by making the Album Artist box blank and checking the Compilation box. I did that for all my multi-artist compilations and the tracks were grouped by album per the CD and listed as "Various Artists". That will allow you to play the album old school.
But, I lost the ability to list the track artist seperately, i.e., I have a compilation CD called EZ Riding' with the classic Golden Earring tune Radar Love. It and all the other tracks ripped into seperate iTunes tracks, not compiled, and there wasn't a single album with all the tracks. But, Golden Earring was a listed artist and if I listed Albums by Artist or looked in the Artist scroll bar, I could see Golden Earring.
After I blanked the Album Artist line for that track and selected Compilation, the Golden Earring track dissappeared from the Album by Artist list and the Artist scroll list, although if I search for them, I get the track id'd.
But I started fooling around with that one track by un-checking the Compilation box and re-inserting the Album Artist and instead of toggling, iTunes dis-aggregated the Album again and it now won't re-aggregate no matter what I do with the Album Artist and Compilation.
Bizarre.

Front row won't group compilations

the itunes pref' allow to group compilations so you don't have 3 million artists. when browsing in front row it doesn't group them, how annoying!!!
any suggestions?

David, Try selecting all the songs in your library (check the check box) then try Front Row. I had the same problem and this worked for me.
Brad

Grouping Compilations

Just now iTunes Help says that grouping complilations can be found in the advanced preferences menu, but I don't see it there. Do you know where it is?
Compilation CD
For an album with songs by multiple artists, such as a movie soundtrack. To group such albums together (rather than list each song with its particular artist), choose iTunes > Preferences, click Advanced, and select “Group compilations when browsing.”

Yes Lorraine, You can Join tracks In itunes.
b Look at This Link:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iTunesWin/4.9/en/507win.html
b You can Also make a Playlist :
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93045
i I hope This helps.
M.

Where is "Group compilations while scanning" in the advanced menu ?

Hello
I can't find "Group compilations while scanning" in the advanced menu.
I really did check that the music went a compilation yet.
Thank you for answer

Sorry.
iTunes prefs -> Advanced.
*Group compilations when browsing*.
3rd from bottom.

Group Compilations not working - Pain!!!!

Hey.
Ok, i've gone through my entire library sorting out all the info and stuff like that to make my iTuning more enjoyable.
One thing is Griping me though. I have many compilations. I have them all check as "part of compilation" and even gone to the extent of naming all the album Artist as "Various Artists" But in the library I do not see the "compilation Grouping.
I get all artists listed alphibetically, which is really annoying. I presume the whole point of having a "group compilations" preference is so that it groups them, so whats going wrong>?
I browse my library in coverflow btw. And am using the new Itunes update...
If anyone can shed light on my problem I would be very greatful.
Thanks
Jed

If you're sorting by Artist, iTunes does exactly that — sorts by Artist, regardless of the Compilation checkbox. You need to sort by Album to get the compilations grouped together. Use "Album by Artist" to sort by Compilation status, then Artist, then Album; or use "Album by Year" to sort by Compilation status, then Artist, then Year, then Album.
This makes sense, if you think about it; the "Compilation" label is applied to albums, not artists, so it's only when sorting by album that compilations are pulled out.

Group compilations?

Why oh why oh why does Front Row not have the option to group compilations like itunes does?
This results in thousands and thousands of artists appearing in the "Artists" list that you only have one song for.
This feature alone renders Front Row almost unusable. Why is still not implemented?

I would send Apple some Mac OS X feedback (there's no form specifically for Front Row):
http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html
As a user, just like yourself, we have no idea why Apple makes decisions about software updates - or the lack thereof. Let them know you'd like that feature in Front Row and maybe it will appear.
-Doug

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.

How can I group compilations?

Hi I bought an iPod the other day and have been importing my CD collection ever since.
One of the problems I have encountered is that when I import compilation albums (such as Now 1995 for instance) the songs keep getting grouped apart from each other.
I noticed that this also occurs with solo albums where one or more artists appear on a track but I have gone into the 'get info' and changed the track to just being the one artist who appears on the album.
I am now finding it difficult to overcome the compilation and soundtrack albums and would be very grateful if someone could offer me their advice on how to do this easily.

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What happend to "group compilations"?

It used to be that if you unchecked "group compilatioins" in preferences, each of the artists would appear in your artist list in your library. Now these artists aren't listed at all. Is this a bug? Anyone know a fix?
thanks

OK. This is strange. My work computer doesn't have this problem. It only is happening on my home computer.
So, at home, artists that only appear in compilations (and grouped as such) aren't showing up individually in the artist list in the column browser. On my work computer (with the same version of Itunes (10.2.2)), this seems to be working fine.
Any ideas?

How can I get my soundtracks w/multiple artists to show up together?

I am an ex-Zune user, this is my 1st day trying my new iPod. My goal is to find a way to look through my collection on iTunes/iPod as if I were looking through my CD collection.
The problem I'm having is with soundtracks/CD's that feature multiple artists. I noticed this when I imported & synced a soundtrack to my iPod. I'll just use my example, the Friday soundtrack. Ok, now I have my CD collection organized by artist name alphabetically, and the Friday soundtrack would go under F. Well when I import & sync this CD, when scrolling through all my artists on my iPod, it doesn't show the Friday soundtrack, but rather each artist's name on the album individually.
What I did for now, was change all the artist names to "Friday", so they show up under Friday, but then I don't have any of my artist info.
Is there any way to correct this so I can have them all under the same album, but keep each song's artist name stored individually so I can tell who is on each song?

If the artists are different, it's going to always be that way in your iPod. After all, what artist would it all go under if there were many artists?
However, you have a few options, for one, I would select all of that album, go into Get Info, and under advanced, make it "Part of a Compilation". This gives you some additional sorting functionality, and you can set your iPod settings, to VIEW these compilations separately. When this setting is enabled on your iPod, any "compilation" tracks are not under that artist, and instead, are under "Compilations" under your music. Plus, you can have iTunes sort Compilations separately too, so it's pretty handy.
Also, you can leave your Artist as is, but leave Artist Album blank. When you do this coupled with the "part of compilation" setting, in iTunes, all of your compilations will appear at the bottom of your library, in a dedicated area for Various Artist compilations.
At the end of the day, just play around with the settings and see what you like. Personally, I use the following methods for any various artist soundtrack/compilation:
-Set all songs as part of compilation
-Set Artist as usual
-Leave Album Artist blank (if the album is Various Artists. If not, enter the main artist)
-In VIEW->COLUMN BROWSER, both "Display Album Artist" and "Group Compilations" are checked
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