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

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