Organizing by Album Name

I notice that all artists are listed alphabetically, and the word the is ignored. However, all albums that begin with "the" are grouped together under that word. Is there anyway to have iTunes and iPod organize albums like artists, and have "the" be discounted?

I can't think of any particular setting that would do this, but you can always edit the song info and remove it yourself. Just highlight all the songs in the same album, right click and choose Get Info. Remove "The" from the title. I've thought of doing this myself but haven't yet.
-dave

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Organizing by Album Name, Not Year?

Hi, I'm a newly converted Mac user. Everything has been fabulous so far, and I'm overall very happy with iLife.
There's one thing that annoys me about iPhoto, though. That is the fact that, after I import my photos, iPhoto automatically sorts them by year. Is there any way to change this, so that it sorts by the album name, rather than the year? I find it very hard to navigate through the years.
Also, is there a way to create an album within an album? Much of my photo collection is sorted with folders (for example, "Holidays"). "Holidays" has some random pictures in it, as well as more folders, like "Christmas Cruise" or "Spring Break Miami." I want to preserve the organizational architecture of my photo collection. I know that in iPhoto you can create a folder and put albums inside, but from what I remember you can't put pictures in the original folder, only the albums. So is there any way to maintain the structure of my collection?
Thanks in advance!

deuce
You can change how photos are sorted simply by going to the Vuew menu -> Sort Photos, and see the options there.
You can't really create an album "within and album" but you can achieve an enormous amount using keywords. In this case assign a keyword 'Holiday' and 'Christmas' to a pic. Now using 'Create a New Smart Album' you can create albums that use both keywords, or one, or one without the other etc. Keywording is really very powerful and well worth using.
Regards
TD

IPhoto '06 - '08 Import Issues: Album Names Not Imported; Grouped by Date

I imagine my circumstances aren't uncommon... After a clean install of Leopard and iLife '08 on my MacBook, I wanted to import my iPhoto '06 library into iPhoto '08. I had archived on an external hard drive the iPhoto Pictures directory from iPhoto '06 (the directory from ~user/Documents/Pictures/iPhoto Pictures/).
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What in the ham sandwich is the proper way to import an iPhoto '06 library so that all of the old album names and organization is maintained in iPhoto '08?
Many thanks for your time!

TD,
Many thanks for the advice. I found one other thing that I wanted to ask about before giving this a whirl.
I noticed that the iPhoto Library in '08 is in fact a package, not a directory. Given that, there are two possible courses of action, and I wanted to know which was best.
1. Delete the iPhoto '08 "iPhoto Library" package and replace it with the '06 "iPhoto Library" directory.
2. Replace the contents of the '08 "iPhoto Library" package with the contents of the '06 "iPhoto Library" directory?
I was uncertain about option 1, as I didn't know how getting rid of the package would affect the application (or if it's needed).
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Exporting images with subfolders by album name

Hello,
I have a project with approx 800 images, organized in 12 different albums. Now I want to export all the images in a folder, which should contains 12 subfolders named with the original album names.
For example, I have a project named "friends" which contains 12 albums named "Emma", "Laura", "Tom", etc... A want to export in order to have this subfolders:
Friends/Emma
Friends/Laura
Friends/Tom
I tried the export-versions option "subfolder format", but I'm not able to do that.
Who can help me?
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One last idea
you could color label the pics.
For example all images of Emma in the album "Emma" get a red label, all images of Laura get a blue label, ....
There a seven colors available like in Finder. This perfectly matches with your needs^^ Seven persons get a different color each, one person gets no color. So you have 8 criterias. Lucky you, not having nine people :P
Click on your project with all 800 pics and their different color labels, select all and export them.
Aperture now will give each exported image the same color label as it has in Aperture. After export has finished you can easily put the images in a corresponding folder based on the color label...
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How can I print the Album name along with the Contact Sheet created from the photos it contains?

I have my photos organized into albums. I would like to print a contact sheet for each album, but would like it to include the album name. This seems like a very basic part of organizing, but it's not overly apparent how to do it. I would also like to resize the caption font on the contact sheet, too. Any suggestions?

Thanks for your replies.
When you say "book creation," are you referring to the Photo Book option? Unless I can create a custom template, that seems somewhat limiting, as there are only a few templates to select from.
I'm trying to come up with a method to manage headshots of staff, the printout of which would be distributed to hotel and security personnel while our group travels (the included Photo Book templates are not appropriate for a straight-up, columnar layout like this requires). My thought was to keep each department's headshots in its respective Album, which could then be quickly printed and distributed. Staff for each department rotates in and out on a regular basis, and the Elements Organizer seemed like a good way to quickly add, caption and place into each Album the appropriate pictures. Contact Sheet printing seemed to be a quick way to accomplish this, but I was hoping to get the Album name (i.e. department name) at the top of the printout.
I printed the contact sheet to a PDF (I have Acrobat Pro XI), then inserted it into a Word doc, as you suggested. While it does allow for headers, etc. it does add a couple of additional steps to the process, but more importantly, I'm finding that the image captions in the PDF are blurred, and not crisp enough to read easily (it may be better if I had font control in the PE Contact Sheet).
So maybe I need more of a desktop publishing app (more than I was wanting to spend), but the Organizer gives me a good process for quickly managing my photos.
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If I change the Album Name, the Album Column still sorts by the old name even the new name is listed.

If I change the Album Name, the Album Colum still sorts the song by the old name even though it shows the new changed name.
This happens for a song I bought from the iTunes Store. When I change the Album Name on songs read in from CDs, it sorts by
the Album Name which I edit.

Changing file or folder names by hand makes iTunes loose contact with the files. You shouldn't do this. If the files are stored inside the iTunes Media folder and you have the option "Keep iTunes Media folder organized" enabled then files with move around as you edit their tags. If they are stored elsewhere, or that option isn't selected, then if you want to rename the files you need to remove and then reimport, or manually reconnect each track one by one.
Select all of the tracks of the album, press Ctrl+I to Get Info, select the Sorting tab, delete the contents of any of the Sort fields, click OK. This should resolve the sorting issue.
tt2

Find word in album name in iphoto

Is it possible to search / find an album that I created in iphoto - i.e. can I search by a word that I used in the album name?
I don't remember the date I took the photo but I remember what I called the album. I have 44,000+ photos and have organized them by albums.
thanks

That's what I have to do, except that I have about 25 folders, each with about 100 albums and it takes forever. I was just looking for an easy way to search by a word in an album title. I don't change the name of every photo so I can't search by photo name.
My albums are titled with the date then the name, so I don't think a sort would help (although I can't find how you can sort albums if you would pass that along that would be nice.)
You would think there would be a way to search for an album name?
thanks.

LR posted to Facebook is no longer working for me. Says album name cannot be assigned.

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Before the last update to LR I could post to Facebook via LR with no issues.
After the update I get the message something to the effect of Album name cannot be assigned. I have tried with and without spaces in the name and same outcome.
Any suggestions?
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Lightroom version: 5.5 [968504]
Operating system: Windows 8.1 Business Edition
Version: 6.3 [9600]
Application architecture: x64
System architecture: x64
Logical processor count: 8
Processor speed: 3.4 GHz
Built-in memory: 32639.4 MB
Real memory available to Lightroom: 32639.4 MB
Real memory used by Lightroom: 440.2 MB (1.3%)
Virtual memory used by Lightroom: 393.8 MB
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Desktop composition enabled: Yes
Displays: 1) 1920x1080
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Settings Folder: C:\Users\Jim\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Lightroom
Installed Plugins:
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2) Canon Tether Plugin
3) Export to Photomatix Pro
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5) Flickr
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7) Nikon Tether Plugin
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Folder and Album names onto CD

Please bear with me. I did this before and now I can't figure out how. Such are the ravages of aging brains.
I'm trying to copy the music from my old vinyls to CDs I can play in my car. I have software and a USB connection that let me get the music onto my computer in MP3 form. Plays back OK on the computer. I created a playlist in iTunes with a bunch of songs and used iTunes to burn the music onto a CD. Works fine.
Here's the problem: I have 116 songs on one CD that display a title when they play, but there is no other organization. I did this once before with a bunch of other albums and when I playback the display shows a folder name and an album name. That way I can skip an entire album or artist easily to get to what I want instead of advancing song by song through dozens and dozens.
The new CD I created doesn't have that info, just Unknown Folder or Unknown Album. Looking at the Properties of the mp3s I created, all the Details/Media are filled in, i.e., Artists, Album Artist, Album, even Year, #, Genre and Length.
What am I missing?

Lucky Eddie,
You are remembering correctly. Before you burn the MP3 CD, sort the playlist by Album. That will cause iTunes to burn the MP3 CD with the songs in an Artist/Album structure.
For more information, see this document:
iTunes: How to set the play order of songs on an MP3 CD
Look especially at the section "How to burn by album."

Why does iTunes show tracks that I've ripped from a single CD as individual tracks with individual albums all with the same album name?

I've looked all the data about each track in terms of album name and other seemingly relevant pieces of stuff, but whenever I look at my songs by albums, it still shows these tracks individually. It's like the same album is repeated over and over instead of the album appearing once with all the tracks listed beneath it.

Chip86 wrote:
EG. A CD upload has all of the tracks appearing as indivual alumbs. But as its not physically on the computer anymore I dont seem to be able to do anything about it. Is there away for me to access cloud and rectify this? or manage it from a device?
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You can edit the "metadata" of the tracks in the cloud just as you would if the tracks were physically on your computer. Hightlight the tracks of the album you want to edit, do a Get Info..., edit "metadata," click OK.

ITunes Get Artwork: "Artwork for [album name] cannot be found. You do not have permission to access the requested resource."

I just installed iTunes 10.5 (latest version as of 11 Jan 2012), onto a computer running Windows 7 Ultimate x64. I loaded my music library into it, it compiled the list and separated them by album. But even though I'd assigned most of the albums artwork through my Zune management software (a Microsoft product), almost none of them populated into iTunes. So I went through and started asking the software to try to find album artwork where possible.
I did this a few times album by album, then I decided to select multiple albums and see what happened. No problems. Then I selected all of the albums I had--about 600 in all--and asked it to get artwork. It seemed to process for a bit, then came back with the error, "Artwork for [album name] could not be located. You do not have permission to access the requested resource." I tried this on several individual albums, only to receive that same error.
The very first time I did it, I was told I needed an account with the iTunes store to make it work, so I signed in using an old Apple ID (the account had been inactive for so long it had been locked for security, I unlocked it and that seemed to be that). Then I did what I described above.
The weird thing--to me--is that I can still add artwork to the albums manually if I want to, from imagery stored locally on my own computer. The only thing it seems to have a problem with is when I ask it to go find artwork from the iTunes store.
Do I need to uninstall iTunes and then reinstall it? Did something go wrong with the process of authorizing the computer to work with the iTunes store? Do I need to de-authorize and then re-authorize the computer? Could this be something related to Windows permissions on the iTunes library?

Right on about how to reset the warnings, it was exactly that.
I went through the steps to let iTunes through Windows Firewall, but still get the same problem when I access the iTunes store (and even though I followed the steps in the help file to the letter, I notice it still says iTunes is NOT enabled for it). And now, thanks to the re-enabled warnings, when I try to get it to download artwork for single albums, this is what I get:
"Artwork for [album name] could not be found. An unknown error occurred (-50)."
New results from the diagnostics too:
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HDCP is supported.
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How do I print a list of only the album names I have in Itunes.

I am new to I Tunes.
I am using Windows 7 on a Dell laptop.
I would like to print a list of only the album titles I have loaded onto my Ipod Nano.
Thanks for any and all help.

trvlnmny wrote:
Thank you for your reply.
In ITunes I have gone to Music.
I then did File > Print and selected Album Listing.
When I did this it did display the albums but also all the songs on each album.
I would like to have the album names only
After you click "Album Listing," you will see a "Theme" pulldown menu that gives you the choice of "Songs by Album" or "List of Albums." Choose the latter.

My music is on a nas loaded by Windows Media Player in WAV. When I import into Itunes only the songs appear no album name etc.

My music is on a nas. Loaded using windows media player in WAV.
When I import into Itunes only the record apears, no Album name etc
How can can I see all the details

Information is often stored as tags embedded in the file. WAV does not support tagging. I don't know how WMP works but iTunes keeps its own database about media. For many audio formats, track information will be stored both in iTunes' database and in the file itself as tags. With formats such as mp3 most tags (not all) will 'travel' with the file when copied. This does not happen with WAV where the information is only stored in the player application's database.

How do I get the itunes stored files on my computer to store by album name not by artist?

How can I get itunes to store my computer music files by album name not by artist? It's a pain retreving a stored album from my external drive.

Are you sure to have the full length file in the library? If you start playing it, will it show the full runtime on the controls?

How do I change artwork and album name for a playlist?

I can't figure out how to do this:
I like to make cd-length playlists (essentially "mix cds") with songs that I own. I make new artwork for the mix cd, and for categorization, I like to change the Album Name and Album Artist to whatever I've named the mix (i.e., "songs about trains").
However, if I do this, the individual songs no longer appear with their original albums, since I've changed the info on them.
So essentially what I want to do is make a copy of the songs. I don't mind if they take up extra space on my hd. How do I do this easily?
I know I can just burn the cd and rip it, but then I have to rename every single song, which is a pain.
Is there an easier way? I imagine many other people like to make mix cds like me...
Thanks.

The reason I need to change the file name is we want the breadcrumbing name to change and the breadcrumbing is linked to the file name.
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