ITunes was splitting albums...workaround

I found that iTunes splits albums because the id tags may be slightly different for songs in an album. If you are like me I spent hours trying to make the tags identical within iTunes and to no avail. Here is the workaround that i found. Edit the tags in Foobar2000 and then reimport the album back into itunes. works perfectly for me. Too bad Apple have dropped the ball with regard to tag editing in iTunes.

hi
i had this trouble when i switched to apple from pc. As all my cd s were already ripped to media player i tried to just transfer the file or folder and all the 'various artists' albums got split. I had to delete them all and rip the guilty folders direct from the cd again with my mac this cured it !
Your problem sounded a little like mine with some all split and others sorted - it was always the folders that i added that acted like this never a direct cd rip.
if for any reason you don t have the cd any more either make sure in the 'get info' option the 'album artist' reads the same for each track and that will batch them together.
hope this is of help
regards
mattdatatt

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nsimp08, Right-click > Get Info on all the songs. Look at these 3 fields, and if any of them are blank, then they are different from each other and that's why they are showing up as multiple albums.
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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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