ITunes splitting an imported CD into a number of albums.

I have just imported a CD 'Local Heros' by Mark Knopfler and others. iTunes has now given me 5 different 'albums' each album containing the songs by each group of artists. Question; how do I stop this happening so that each CD I import is only one album and how do I now group these 5 'albums' to make one album labelled 'Local Heros'? Thanks JH

Give all the tracks the identical album artist or flag them as a compilation in get info.
Post by Turingtest: HowTo: Grouping Tracks Into Albums - http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=9910895

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