Itunes split an album into separate pieces

I tunes split an album into 4 pieces.  I was able to consolidate it down to 2 pieces by ensuring the spelling and spacing was all the same in the title and artist spaces.
However, now that everything is exactly the same, it still won't consolidate to one album.  Shouldn't there be a way of manually putting the songs into one album?

"Shouldn't there be a way of manually putting the songs into one album?"
Yes, there should - but unfortunately there isn't.  iTunes doesn't have an object that represents "one album" - it uses the metadata associated with individual tracks to group them into albums in appropriate UI views.  As tt2 says, having identical values for Album and Album Artist (or Artist, where this is genuinely the same for all tracks, and Album Artist is left blank) will group albums correctly.  Possible remedies, having selected all the tracks that should be part of the album:
re-enter the Album and either Artist or Album Artist as appropriate, putting a "dummy" character like "x" before the propert values.  This should eliminate any possible conflicts caused by stray spaces/non printing characters.  This should group the tracks correctly - you can then remove the "dummy" characters.
if this doesn't work, it may be worth setting the "Part of a compilation flag" - if this then groups the tracks correctly then unset it again ... there's no reason why this should work but I have found this to be the case in recent iTunes builds.
If the problem persists post some screenshots showing the details of the problem ... that may help to diagnose and resolve the issue.

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