Organizing albums into printable list

Is there any way to import just my album list to Excel or Word? I tried to export my library as an Excel file, but that didn’t give me what I wanted. That listed where they are in my computer. A file list.
I just need a list of my albums to print.
iPod 30 GB Windows XP Pro haven't had an "apple" since the IIe, tastes good to be back.

hiya!
here's another possibility. not sure whether it's going to fit your needs, though.
in itunes, go "file > print"
select "Album listing"
in the themes, select "List of albums"
it actually breaks down the list by artist. here's a screenshot of what my library printout looks like:
list of albums printout
if you've got long album names in your library, you might want to print in landscape rather than portrait format. (click "Page setup" and select "landscape".) it uses up a bit more paper (my "portrait" version is 6 pages long, and my landscape version is 8 pages), but it doesn't cut the ends off the really long album titles.
love, b

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Hello.. I'm having trouble organizing my songs which are part of an album in iTunes. In the new grid album view of iTunes 8.0, I have all my songs appearing separately even though they are part of the same album and have the same artwork.
For example, there are 15 songs under Ministry of Sound and each appears as stand alone album containing one song each. It looks very disorganized since there are now 15 albums containing one song when it should be 1 album containing the 15 songs! And this is across my iTunes library and I've tried to drag and drop them into one but its not possible for some vague reason. Can anyone please tell me how to resolve this?
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Hi, your MoS album is a compilation. Select all the tracks, press CMD-I to open the Get Info box. On the Info tab enter *Various Artists* as the Album Artist and on the Options tab set Part of a compilation to Yes. You should also set the iTunes Advanced Preference *Group compliations when browsing*.
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*Grouping tracks into albums*
The iPod (and iTunes to a lesser extent) conflates two or more albums with the same title, most obviously with *Greatest Hits*. On the iPod this can result in one album acting as a combination of two or more. Selecting any cover gives all the tracks of all albums with the same title. The workaround for this "Greatest Hits" bug is to give each album a unique title - I tend to go for *Album - Album Artist* as this reads clearly in the iTunes browser. Alternatively you could use the wording as it appears on the cover, append different numbers of spaces for each different album or set different values for the Sort Album.
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OOOOhhhhhh no worries, sorted it.
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to give you this:
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Can you sort multiple albums into one single album....?

So my situation is like this...
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If my question/explanation was unclear, maybe this might help.
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Organizing albums per year in my iPod

Friends,
I find that organizing albums per year is much more convenient than by alphabetical order.
And makes much more sense, to me.
Now this is no problem when you're in iTUnes, as you can visualize all your music both ways, per year, alphabetically (and many more, actually.
But when I'm listening through my iPod???
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8. I then went to my internal drive User/Music/Itunes/ and dragged these 4 files I copied from my external drive into here and making sure to REPLACE the four existing files already there.
9. Next open iTunes and you will find all your presettings appear with all your music linked to your external. What this does is keep the important library files on your internal drive (that somehow makes your finder files album art appear), BUT to read also all the music mp3 files located in the external drive (action from step 5)
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