Multiple artist for one album

I hope I can explain this properly. How can I organize my iTunes library so that songs by an artist FEATURING another artist is not listed as a seperate artist. For example, I have a CD by David Sanborn. There are three songs on that CD where the artist is David Sanborn "featuring" another artist. In the iTunes library, this looks like seperate CDs by David Sanborn, but in actuality it's the same CD. If I want to play that David Sanborn CD on my iPod, it will not play the songs "featuring" other artists because it is organized as a seperate artist (David Sanborn featuring ..." I like to find and play music by searching for the artist, not by CD title. Is there a way to search by artist, and have the entire CD play without excluding those songs that "feature" other artisits? Thanks.

Post by Turingtest: HowTo: Grouping Tracks Into Albums - http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=9910895
iTunes & iPod Hints & Tips - Grouping Tracks Into Albums - http://www.samsoft.org.uk/iTunes/grouping.asp
Quick answer: Select all the tracks on the album, File > get info, and either give them all a single "album artist" or check the "compilation" flag.

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Hi all, Kapyrna here.
I just bought a Zen Vision:M 30GB and I love it, for one exception:
I have a lot of video game remixes and such that have more than one artist as filed in Windows Media Player (like this: [artist]; [artist2];...). I'm using ID3 tags (I think?) and some of the tracks on my Zen show as one 'artist' but with all the individual names strung together, semicolons and all. Other tracks show only the first contributing artist as the only artist.
If I can, how do I fix this? Also, is there a way to bind an album not split up into the various artists, but as "Various"?
Thanks in advance. My searches only found me the same artist appearing multiple times, the reverse of my issue.
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I'm not sure I understand from your post what it is that you want to see. You talk about what you do NOT want to see. Do you use an ID3 tag utility to make changes to your list of artists? My personal choice is ID3-TagIt (but there are dozens of other equally capable programs out there). With it, you can modify album names ... enter single or multiple artists ... and even add the composer, song lyrics, etc. However, just having those in the ID3 tag doesn't mean they will be displayed by all software programs (players) ... that's up to the person who writes the application. So even if you do put them in, your player might not display them how you'd like them to be displayed.
I know this doesn't specifically answer your question, but maybe you can rephrase it so we know what it is you want to see on your player's screen when you have multiple artists.
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Merging Multiple Artists Into One Album

Ok so I donwloaded a CD called Buzz Cuts with alot of great artisits. Now my problem is there are 30 songs and Itunes is showing 30 different albums even though they are all from the same CD. Its messing up because of all the different artists. How can I merge them all into one album called Buzz Cuts. Or is there a way to sort them. Its a pain having 30 extra cds at the top screen. Please help.

All of this can be adjusted by simply right clicking a song and selecting "Get info." Under the info tab, you can customize things like crazy. For instance, you can insert into the "album" field the title of the compilation.

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After adding all my music into iTunes I have some albums listed multiple times with one or two tracks listed in each one. How can I get all the tracks for that album listed all together? Also is there any way to import album art from another program. Windows media player has all the album art and iTunes is missing about 40 percent of them?

Well, I tried everything in that article and when all my albums are in cover flow view multiple albums covers show for that one album. When I type in the album name, it narrows down to 1 CD.
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When I added a downloaded album to iTunes, it created one album for each track. How do I merge all of these albums/tracks into one album?

Some albums will fracture into a million pieces if you have different artist names. How the columns are sorted can effect this.
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MULTIPLE ARTISTS IN ONE AL

hi,
i hope that somebody could help me on this. i've been looking for some solutions in the forum but can't find it. for zen users, it is always hard to copy multiple artists in one album in the zen without scattering this artists everywhere. hope that these multiple artists stay in one artists/album in the zen menu and the best thing to do this is to edit these tracks individually. it's ok if you only edit about 20 artists but if you have 200 or more, this is something else.
i hope somebody in this forum has a better idea or recommended software on how to edit these things easily.. most of the tag softwares only edited the filenames? and some, edited it one by one...
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You can't delete "artists" - just songs (or songs grouped into albums). When iTunes displays the library or a playlist in Artists view it is doing so using the metadata values set in the relevant songs. If you're looking at this view:
then your selections in the left pane - the artists list - is filtering what you see on the right. When you select Delete via the keyboard or via a right-click operation, you are initiating an operation to delete the songs by that artist. To delete songs by more than one artist in a single operation you'll need to select and delete in Albums view:
or in Songs view:
where you can also use the Column Browser to filter songs by multiple artists:

How to delete Multiple Artists in one action?

Hi,
I want to do a big clean up on an iTunes library with over 4000 albums.
How can I delete multiple Artists in one action?
It looks like I can only delete 1 Artist at a time, and then this action shoots me to the top of the list. Which is a pain then having to scroll back down through such a huge list to then delete the others one at a time... each time being shot back to the top of the list.
For example I have the following artists;
The Alarm 01 – 1 song
The Alarm 02 – 1 song
The Alarm 03 – 1 song
The Alarm 04 – 1 song
The Alarm 05 – 1 song
The Alarm 06 – 1 song
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You can't delete "artists" - just songs (or songs grouped into albums). When iTunes displays the library or a playlist in Artists view it is doing so using the metadata values set in the relevant songs. If you're looking at this view:
then your selections in the left pane - the artists list - is filtering what you see on the right. When you select Delete via the keyboard or via a right-click operation, you are initiating an operation to delete the songs by that artist. To delete songs by more than one artist in a single operation you'll need to select and delete in Albums view:
or in Songs view:
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How Do I Group Multiple Disks as One Album?

I've got the latest iTunes update, 11.0.4, and as with the update before it, I'm supposed to be able to group multiple disks as one album, but I can't figure out how, and can't find any directions at Apple.
I've lately begun ripping my large collection of symphonies and operas on CD into iTunes. Operas especially almost always come on two, three, or even four CD's, BUT IT'S ALL THE SAME OPERA, and the CD's come in the same boxed set. On top of that, there really aren't any "tracks" in an opera; the plot and the music unroll seamlessly from beginning to end (that sometimes takes 5 or 6 hours, which goes with the operatic territory).
On my CD player, I'm used to a pause between disks, but now that I've figured out how to get the "tracks" on each CD to play in order on iTunes (not so intuitive), I'd like to be able to go from the last "track" on Disk 1 to the first track on Disk 2 without interruption, since the technology should be able to support that option.
In the INFO box, I've tried keeping "1 of 3," "2 of 3," "3 of 3." No joy. So I've tried erasing the first element, 1, 2, 3, and just leaving the total number of disks. Again, no joy.
Since the album name is often filled in with something like "Carmen [Disk 1]" for example, and since Albums should have exactly the same name so that iTunes can figure out that in fact, they belong to the same work, I've tried deleting '[Disk 1]" etc. on all 3, leaving just "Carmen" in the appropriate space on the INFO panel for each of the 3 disks. Doesn't work.
Has anyone else been afflicted with the same problem?
Has anyone got a solution?

Have you seen this helpful article:
Grouping tracks into albums:
http://samsoft.org.uk/iTunes/grouping.asp
In the INFO box, I've tried keeping "1 of 3," "2 of 3," "3 of 3."
That is correct. Don't erase the first element, 1, 2, 3, that should not matter.
Since the album name is often filled in with something like "Carmen [Disk 1]" for example, and since Albums should have exactly the same name so that iTunes can figure out that in fact, they belong to the same work, I've tried deleting '[Disk 1]" etc. on all 3, leaving just "Carmen" in the appropriate space on the INFO panel for each of the 3 disks.
Also correct. Also chec, if the "Sort album name" is the same.
Do the artists differ on the tracks?
Then set the "Album Artist" on all CDs to the same name (Various Artists), also check, if the album sort artists names differ.

Group Different Albums by the Same Artist under one Album Cover

I've read many posts regarding grouping tracks by different artists into one album, but none dealing with grouping tracks by one artist together from different album titles. An example of this would be classical pieces that are divided into different acts, or more recently, the new Green Day album "21st Century Breakdown," which also divides the album into "acts." Another example of this situation could be a box set by a particular artist, for instance an Eagles box set that contains 3 discs of differing titles (disc one: Eagles, disc two: Desperado, disc three: Live) in which case the three CDs are all essentially part of the same album.
I know the grouping field can be utilized to tag all the CDs within the same set to keep them together; however, I have not been able to use this feature to group albums such as those mentioned above together under one album art in the grid or in the coverflow view. It looks rather silly when there are 3 or 4 of the same album cover in a row in the grid or the coverflow.
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Adding slightly to the previous post I would suggest that you give each disc of the set an appropriate disc no., e.g. Discs 1 of 3, 2 of 3 and 3 of 3 for Eagles, Desperado & Live respectively in your Eagles Box Set. Record the individual disc titles in the Comments or Grouping field, then change the Album title for all three discs to something appropriate like "Eagles Box Set". The three discs will collapse into one cover and play in sequence. If marking the transition from one disc to another matters you could, for example, simply add the album name in brackets to the first track of each album. You could use curly brackets to distinguish this from other types of track comment. For more organizational tips see my previous post on Grouping Tracks Into Albums, in particular the topic One cover for multi-disc album.
The alternative approach for box sets which simply repackage a number of original albums together is to find the original artwork for each album.
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If artist has one album jumps str8 to it.....cant view songs not part of it

Hi
I don't know if this is an issue with my iPod or with this generation in general, but when trying to view an artists songs if the artist has one album and a few songs that are not part of that album it jumps straight to that album, therefore no longer giving me the option to view all songs or just the songs from that album. For other artists that have multiple albums it does bring that normal menu up, allowing me to view all songs or songs from each of the particular albums.
Help!!

well i did think of that.....but i was hoping there would be a more technical and long-term resolution
the idea of having no album names or needing to have some kind of generic album title really doesn't appeal!!
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I just submitted a bug report to Apple, though I can't believe I am the only person with this issue.
Since iOS7 (I am currently on iOS7.0.4) I have noticed that the music app (along with many many other issues) will no longer display the artist for compilation albums that I have. In iTunes the artist on the compilation is clearly defined but in iOS7 the Music app simply states "unknown artist".
Surely I am not the only one with this issue?

I am very annoyed by this bug too, I have a lot of compilation albums and soundtracks with lots of differents artists, and my library is super organized in iTunes, with the “Album artist” field empty and the “Part of a compilation” checkbox enabled, and it shows the compilations as a “Various Artists” album.
But when I tried to download through iTunes Match in my iPhone 5C some few songs from those albums today, I found out that the music app has this bug that makes almost all of the compilation albums appear within this “UNKNOWN ARTIST” category under the artists tab.
It is very annoying and I hope Apple fixes this, cuz it is driving me crazy.

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Here is my issue:
on the ipod I should see this:
music > artists > THE ARTIST > All or Album1
That's the logical order, but this is what my iPod does
music > artists > THE ARTIST > Album1
I know I have tracks that are not a part of Album1 ( I see them when I view the whole song listing). My ipod skips the screen where I could normally choose All or Album1. Everything works fine if I have more than one album, but for these artists with one album and a few non album tracks its not right.
Sorry if this is posted elsewhere. It's and odd request and wasn't sure how to search for it.
Some HP Laptop Windows XP

I know I have tracks that are not a part of Album1 (
I see them when I view the whole song listing). My
ipod skips the screen where I could normally choose
All or Album1. Everything works fine if I have more
than one album, but for these artists with one album
and a few non album tracks its not right.
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