ITunes is breaking up my albums

Importing CD's to iTunes 7.7
Now all of a sudden all albums have been broken up & each songs is listed individually.
I have used Time Machine but still get the same results.Wondering if it has something to do with
view options.Did I check/uncheck something I wasnt supposed to?
Is there a way to add attachments,see better what I'm talking about.
Thks,
Doug

Good Morning Doug.
In your main iTunes library (click on 'Music', in the left menu) you can view your music by song/artist/album/etc. simply by highlighting the header of the info you wish to sort it by.
If you have a different category you wish to add to your library go to:
iTunes (menu bar) > View > View Options (at bottom) > and check off the options you wish to see in your library. Don't forget to save.
Hope this helps.
mwn

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I hope I can explain this clearly. For some unknown reason on SOME CD's I put in and on SOME music I've added to my library (from my HD) I've gotten multiple album covers for one album. Let me try that a different way, each song on a CD will be displayed in cover flow as it's own separate CD's so that if there are 10 songs on Bjork's album, I'll have 10 different albums coming up in cover flow for Bjork. It's frustrating when I'm trying to scroll and more so on my iPod.
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Excuse the long post, but hopefully covering all the bases (that I can think of) will help you fix the other issues you are likely to run into as you try to organise your iTunes library.
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iTunes will let you sort music on many columns, some of which are unlikely to group albums together. The most useful order for editing the library is probably *Album by Artist*. If you're not already there, select the list view and click on the column heading for Artist until it reads Album by Artist.
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