Organizing Complilations to One Album ?

Whenever I add a compilation to my library, iTunes sees each track as a separate album. Is there a nice way (specifically when viewing with cover flow) to not have to scroll through 20 album-covers for one album?

As you mention Cover Flow I assume you are not on itunes 11 as this has been removed by Apple.
However as other People have said you want to Select all the tracks from that Album and Select the Compilation option under Get Info, Options. Also on yhe First page of Get Info the Album Artist should be set as Various Artists. This then Allows the Artist to be used for the Artist of the individual track.

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Organizing music into one album

Hi I'm another person who has problems with his music from the same albums being put in separate albums. One example is my Ruff Ryder Vol. 1 album. I keep getting multiple albums from the same album. What I mean is that I can never get the whole album together. They're separated. And I've been reading the other topics and went to the link that addressed this problem. I've selected all of the songs for this album and right clicked and went to album info. And I've typed in Ruff Ryders by album artist and checked the box for compilation. And then I hit ok. And still nothing happens. Then when I do it again, it's like the changes that I made don't exist. And so I end up redoing it over and over, and I haven't gotten any closer to grouping the songs in to one album. Can anybody help and tell me what I'm doing wrong because I'm getting really frustrated. Thanks

Sounds like you may not have proper right permissions for the iTunes folder? Check that first.
As a test, pick one song from that album and give it a totally bogus name for the artist like "Bogus", hit OK, start to play song. Does it change back to what it was? If you do a Get Info is "Bogus" still listed or did it go back to what it was?
Patrick

I have several Albums in my Photo app. Is there a way to download all contents in one album only to my computer?

I have several Albums in my Photo section in my iphone.
I want to be able to transfer a specific album only when syncing to my computer. So that all the pictures are already organized in one album when I transfer it.
Is there a way to do this?
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Please, please, please... I wonder if the solution of deleting the Podcast App and using the Music App again would work. My favorite sports radio station splits up their podcasts by DJ (logical), but I want to listen to all podcasts from one day from all DJs. No longer automatic :(
Apple developers, if you read this please add this feature - you had it in Music App.

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Hello there!
Is it possible to play all music except one album without organizing or using a playlist?
If yes can you teach me?
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No. You would either need to not sync that album or create a Smart Playlist that includes everything except that one.
Creating a Smart Playlist is pretty simple.
-Peter

Sort ALL tracks into one album while listening to nano

I have tried to sort all the tracks into one album to listen to the complete CD without having to keep choosing every song individually while on the nano.I have tried everything, sorting it by album/album and artist and also renaming the artist feat. so and so... can somebody please help me with this issue. Thanks!!!

Hello Jr45,
And welcome to Apple Discussions!
Instead of having me try to explain this one, check out this wonderfully written article by another forum member turingtest2 on organizing content in iTunes. It should be able to assist you with this situation.
http://samsoft.org.uk/iTunes/grouping.asp
B-rock

One album will not sort by date

I have 5000 or so photos that I've spent weeks organizing and rating.
I set up smart albums with rules to include only specific keyword identified pictures then combed thru all the pictures asssigning keywords (e.g. Spouse, Scenery, Wildlife, People...etc).
Afterwards I rate the pictures. Following that I set up another smart album corresponding to each original and select only the 4 and 5 star rated ones. I then assign the keyword "Slideshow" to all those using batch update.
Finally I was organizing my final smart album by selecting all pictures with the keyword "Slideshow" in a single smart album.
As each collection of pictures was pulled into the slideshow album they remained sorted by date until the final one. The final group of photos went to the back of the bus. Nothing I do will make them properly merge with the rest in date sequence. If you look at the information the dates still are properly set, but they will not sort. When I looked for them in the library folder they are improperly sorted there as well.
Now here is the thing: I changed the title of each album before pulling it into the Slideshow album. I did this to assign a name and sequential number to each picture that made the final cut. On the album giving me problems I mistakenly first changed the name to the date instead of to text. I quickly realized my error and changed it back but evidently by then I had hosed things up. Even though the information still shows all the date info properly, it behaves as if the date was now the current date.
Is there any way to resolve this issue?

I can sort by Title and I can sort by Date however the entries do not set themselves up chronologically, for instance this is the sort sequence after I sort by Date.
ON DUTY
scheduled for 11 September 2012 at 3:59 PM to 12 September 2012 at 5:59 AM
ON DUTY
scheduled for 14 August 2012 at 3:59 PM to 15 August 2012 at 5:59 AM
ON DUTY
scheduled for 18 September 2012 at 3:59 PM to 19 September 2012 at 5:59 AM
I am using OS 10.7.4
I am sycing my iCal only with my iPhone and the strange thing is that on my iPhone they are perfectly correct chronologically
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How can I give songs on one album different illustrations.

Pete Philly, a Dutch singer, did a project, called "Open Loops". He uploaded a number of songs that didn't really fit in his new album, to be downloaded for free. I downloaded it, and it turns out that every song has its own illustration. I was curious if it was possible for several songs on one album to have different illustrations in iTunes. Is it possible? If so, how can I do it? Thanks in advance.

From another thread
If you just highlight the name of the genre and press play/pause, you won't have to select an artist.

I have photos I want to group together in one album, but can't do this because some may have the same number. How can I combine them all into one album?

I have photos I want to group together in one album, but can't do this because some may have the same number. How can I combine them all into one album? I was trying to move several albums onto a USB drive and it stated all other files exist at this location. They are pictures taken at different times and have the same number I guess.

In iPhoto albums may contain photos with the same file name - iPhoto handles that just fine
If you are exporting them to move somewhere else use the sequential file name feature of export to give each file a unique name
LN

A music album is listed multiple times in my library but each listing only has a few songs in it-not the full listing. How can I combine them into one album and get rid of other duplicate listings?

Several music albums listed in my IPhone 5 music library are listed multiple times, but each one only has a portion of the songs listed. How can I combine them to make one album?

First....Thank you so much for your prompt reply. I am sorry for not getting back to you regarding your suggestion-I had computer issues that just got resolved. Also, this is my first foray into online chat rooms so I have a lot to learn to precisely state my issue! I did as you suggested and all the songs list the same album when I go into each song's "get info". However, I am not sure how to edit as you suggested. When I downloaded this album originally, for some reason it broke up into several albums each with different songs from the original album. I am trying to consolidate them back into one album in my library. I would greatly appreciate further assistance if you can. Also, I do not use "the cloud" to store any data and would like a good source of info on how to do this. Thanks so much for your patience!
SueZoo

Compilations: Can you show just one album cover with mixes/compiations?

Using the current iTunes (11.01) is a misery. I have numerous mix discs and compilations, and for each title eg Royksopp's BACK TO MINE mix, there are about 15 tiles of the album, one for each song. In extreme cases, there may be over 100. Since I have God knows how many songs, easily in the tens of thousands, this is an extremely inefficient way to display my collection.
Is there any way to display albums with just the one album cover and title showing each time? THis is ridiculous.
Thanks in advance.

Wow!
Is that really so?
I'm not questioning your answer. Just want to make sure before I say OK and let it be. I had heard that iTunes/iPod forces you to do things their way, this is an example, I guess!
Thanks for the input.
I guess I'll just have to leave it be!
Is iTunes the only way to deal with iPod? Are there any other programs?
Bob

Albums with multiple artists do not show up as one album in my library. How can I make them do this WITHOUT having to put all such albums in a playlist so they actually play properly?

Basically, I just got the Matrix Reloaded album off a friend of mine.
The album itself is comprised of multiple contributing artists.
Now, in any other media player, it would happily declare the album to be the product of Various Artists and leave it at that.
iTunes, on the other hand, seems to think I need one album titled "Matrix Reloaded" for every single artist who contributed, which not only looks hideous (I have enough trouble navigating the "Albums" page as is since it's not in any kind of alphabetical order) but also makes it a pain if I just want to put the album on to play and do something else.
The same thing occurs with another album, one of the Red vs Blue soundtracks by Jeff Williams; two of the songs in it are from "Jeff Williams & Steve Goldshein" which iTunes seems to think merits a whole seperate album which is entirely redundant.
At the moment I'm getting by through somewhat-length creation of playlists so I can actually listen to albums with the tracks where they're meant to be, but this should not even be necessary in the first place.
All my music currently is from when I made the jump from WMP after buying an iPod Touch, none of it was actually bought through iTunes.

Generally setting a common Album title and Album Artist will fix things. For compilations of tracks by different artists set the album artist to Various Artists and also set Part of a compilation to Yes on the Options tab.
For deeper problems see Grouping tracks into albums.
tt2

HT1473 Often times when I copy a CD into my library it breaks the CD into more than one Album, all with the same name but with only a few of the songs on each. This happens whenever the CD has music with more than one artists...like maybe duets.

Often times when I copy a CD into my library it will break my CD into multiple albums in my library, each with only a few songs.
Usually this is because there might be songs where the artists has other artists in the song.
How can I compile all of the different albums (all with the same name by the way) back into one as was the original disc?

Generally all you need to do is fill in an appropriate Album Artist. For more details see my article on Grouping Tracks Into Albums, in particular the topic One album, too many covers.
tt2

When I want to add an album onto my iphone using itunes, I am successful in putting one album on my phone but when I want to add another album it deletes the first album I put on my phone. How can I add more albums without some albums disappearing?

I am having a problem with importing cds onto my iPhone. I have successfully added a playlist or album to my phone but when I want to add another album/artist, the first album that was on there has all of a sudden disappeared. Its like I can only have one album on my phone. This is my first time dealing with anything Apple because I have been using android phones. Any help would be appreciated as I don't fully understand iTunes.

You can delete photos from individual albums but not from the camera roll. If you try to delete a photo from camera roll it will be deleted from all other albums ("locations") that contain the photo. This is because the actual photo is in the camera roll (the albums only contain links to the photo in camera roll, not the actual photo).

I have just installed iTunes on my laptop and merged tracks under various artists to form one album but when I sync iTunes to my new ipod the tracks on some of the albums are appearing as single artists..... WHY???? I

I Have just spent the best part of a week installing iTunes on my laptop, transferring over all my music and merging tracks by different artists on one album so that they all show as one album. I have just plugged in my new ipod classic to sync all my music but the music has gone across in random tracks and split albums.... I really am losing the will to live and am about to throw both iPod and laptop out the window.... So SOMEBODY.... Please HELP.

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That one's consistent with disk/file damage. The first thing I'd try with that is running a disk check (chkdsk) over your C drive.
XP instructions in the following document: How to perform disk error checking in Windows XP
Vista instructions in the following document: Check your hard disk for errors
Windows 7 instructions in the following document: How to use CHKDSK (Check Disk)
Select both Automatically fix file system errors and Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors, or use chkdsk /r (depending on which way you decide to go about doing this). You'll almost certainly have to schedule the chkdsk to run on startup. The scan should take quite a while ... if it quits after a few minutes or seconds, something's interfering with the scan.
Does the chkdsk find/repair any damage? If so, can you get an install to go through properly afterwards?

I got my ipad 2 yesterday. I am trying to transfer photos as albums to ipad via itunes. I put the photos in a file with sub-files as I was told. The all tranfer but into one album. Is there a way to do what I am trying?

I am trying to tranfer photos from pc to ipad via itunes. I put the photos in a file and sub-files in order to tranfer them as albums: an main album with albums within. All the photos tranfered but into only one album. Is there a way to do this? Is there an app that would help. Also, I tranfered two albums into iphoto. I edited a photo in one album which created a new album of edits. I have removed the photos form the album but I am not able to delete the album themselves. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

I am having the same problem and it is even bigger.
When opening a 1-page PDF in iBooks and sending it via mail it is sent inline as preview, but the recipient cannot open the file anymore. Also on iPad and iPhone there is no "open in" possible.
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