Same tracks on 2 albums

I wish to buy an album but it says a lot of them are already purchased which is fine as they are on my other album. My question is, should I purchase this new album will it download the "purchased" ones and give me duplicates or will it ignore them?

If a track shows up in the store as Purchased then iTunes thinks you have already purchased that track from that album, not a matching track for a different one. Depending on various factors the purchase price for the album may reflect a discount for the previously purchased tracks. If you purchase the album iTunes should only download the remaining tracks from the album.
The behaviour may or may not be slightly different if you have purchased iTunes Match (which I haven't) but the easiest way to find out, assuming you want the album, is to buy it and see.
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How can I quickly get the same album art for all tracks on an album without manually doing them one at a time?

I am having trouble with album art linked to each track. My library is ripped from my own cd's and ITunes only provides some of the artwork from a find artwork search. The rest must be found and added one at a time manually from web. This process is tedious and time consuming for me. Is there a file in iTunes related to each album that I can just drop the art once and it shows up linked to all the tracks from that album when they play? I've tried selecting all songs from an album and dragging the artwork to the artwork window once in hopes of all tracks getting the artwork at the same time with no luck. Any advice for this paltry artwork dilemma would be appreciated. If Cassidy & Greene still owned this ******* child of SoundJam I know I would not be having this problem! HaHa...Thanks for any advice/help with this problem.

Thx 4 quick reply alexbird. Your method will work and after a little experimenting so will this: Just go to the album art view option and highlight the album you want artwork for. Drag the artwork from your album art web search page to bottom left hand album art window in iTunes and just drop it there. A small progress window then appears showing each album track adopting the dropped artwork one by one. It only takes 10-15 seconds for all of the tracks on your album to adopt the new artwork. I then went back and removed unwanted artwork(from the albums that had it) track by track from the get info menu. This goes pretty quick as you just pick track>get info>artwork>highlight art>delete>ok for each track.
This drag/drop to the album art view page has been the simplest and most effective way I have discovered to manually import album artwork into iTunes so far. Hope this helps someone else out there. Any other methods or suggestions to do this task added to this thread will be duly noted. Thx... Oh, I am currently using iTunes 10.5.1

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?
Thanks
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.

Tracks missing from albums in library

i have tried importing ensuring all artist info is the same, still i miss certian tracks from the album.itunes reads it as an album but when imported i have the odd track missing, help help..please

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.
Sorting on the album column may help to reveal the missing tracks which could be sorted elsewhere in the library and so only appear to be missing.
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How to move tracks from one album to another in itunes library?

I have imported an album from my 'Vuze Downloads' folder in my 'iTunes library' but it appears in the library as three seperate albums.
How to i get all the tracks into one album as they were meant to be?
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Make sure all tracks have the same album name and same artist name (look under Get Info) in order for them to group together. If the album is a compilation with different artists, under Get Info, mark it as a compilation.

I have several copies of the same track - how do I remove extra tracks?

First, I am now running iTunes for windows, 11.1.3.8
My computer is a laptop running Windows 7.
I have an iPod classic that I try to sync with it.
I have a mix of songs downloaded from Amazon (sorry guys) or ripped from CD's.
A year ago, iTunes started creating several copies of the same track. For example, if I wanted to listen to Adam Ant, I'd have three copies of "Desperate, but not serious" and one copy of something else and two copies of "Room at the Top."
So, I deleted the extra tracks. Sometimes this was horrid because if I deleted the wrong track, the other tracks wouldn't work, but they all looked the same (same number of bytes, no numbers at the end of the titles, etc) so I had to be careful.
I cursed, a lot, so after a time I deleted iTunes completely, then started over. That seemed to fix it.
BUT, today, I have the same problem.
It's random. Not every album is effected. Not every song on a certain album is effected. It's not just songs I ripped, or songs I downloaded. There's nothing you can point at and go "AHA!"
Furthermore...this might be a separate problem, but my iPod is not always recognized by iTunes, and some of the songs on the iPod get skipped. Again, no way of telling which songs it doesn't like...it skips some ripped, some downloaded. No correlation that one can easily track.
What I would like to do is fix iTunes then reset the iPod and start over, I guess?
Any ideas? Thank you all in advance.

Apple's official advice is here... HT2905 - How to find and remove duplicate items in your iTunes library. It is a manual process and the article fails to explain some of the potential pitfalls.
Use Shift > View > Show Exact Duplicate Items to display duplicates as this is normally a more useful selection. You need to manually select all but one of each group of identical tracks to remove. Sorting the list by Date Added may make it easier to select the appropriate tracks, however this works best when performed immediately after the dupes have been created. If you have multiple entries in iTunes connected to the same file on the hard drive then don't send to the recycle bin. This can happen, for example, if you start iTunes with a disconnected external drive, then connect it, reimport from your media folder, then restart iTunes.
Use my DeDuper script if you're not sure, don't want to do it by hand, or want to preserve ratings, play counts and playlist membership. See this thread for background. Please take note of the warning to backup your library before deduping, whether you do so by hand or using my script, in case something goes wrong.
(If you don't see the menu bar press ALT to show it temporarily or CTRL+B to keep it displayed)
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How do I play all tracks on an album sequentially on iPod nano 6th generation ?

I have an ipod nano 6th generation. I want to play all tracks on an album sequentially (as if I was playing a CD) without having to select each one in turn. On my ipod nano it repeats the same song and wont move to the next one automatically. can anyone help ?

The repeat setting can be found from the Nano's Now Playing screen. While playing a track, swipe to the right to bring up additional controls including the scrubber bar, as well as the repeat and shuffle otpions. See page 21 of your iPod's User Guide for more assistance on the repeat setting.
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/iPod_nano_6thgen_User_Guide.pdf
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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.
The best way I could think to differentiate the different acts on an album or CDs in a set was to group the songs in their own folder and change the title of the album tag to reflect which act (or CD) those particular tracks covered. While this works in the list view to keep the tracks in order, it does not allow me to view the album as a “whole” using the coverflow view. It seems the only way to merge differently tagged tracks is if the ALBUM title is the same even if there are multiple artists. I’ve tried using the grouping, sorting, and “part of a compilation” options with no success. Is there any way to merge these tracks under one album art while retaining the different album names?

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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Adding tracks to one album?

I have just selected a music folder from my pc and added it to itunes! the problem I have is that a couple of tracks from the album have downloaded separatley from the actual main album and they are showing up as different albums but with the same name? how do I add the couple of rogue tracks into the main album?

You sometimes also have to select all the tracks and choose compilation esp for older MP3's or ones with not 100% clean tags.

How to combine mutiple tracks into one album in itunes 12

How to combine mutiple tracks into one album in itunes 12

Make sure they all have the same Album Artist and Album Name.

Combiining music tracks into one album

I recently recorded a few tracks from a CD album into my iPod Touch and each track shows up on my music screen as a separate album (all showing the same album cover art). How do I combine these tracks into one album/ help!

Welcome to AD!
Usually, they all need to have the same exact tags for Album & Album Artist.
Or maybe the "Part of a Compilation" checkbox is giving problems.
This article has some good examples
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1468

Consolidate tracks into one album

I have the latest version of itunes and I ripped one of my cd's last night. It's a 2 disc album and it ripped disc 2 fine as one album, but disc one is all separate tracks.
I have selected all the tracks and clicked "get into", changed all the info to the same and it used to combine all the tracks into one album, but now for some reason it won't work. I have tried the "consolidate" option and that doesn't work either.
I don't particularly like the new itunes interface to be honest, it looks very cold and uninviting
Apologies if i'm on the US site of Apple, I keep changing the page to UK and it keeps reverting me back to US again!

Hi there.
Thanks for your reply. I was trying to do this last night, I updated to itunes 11 a few days ago. I turned on my laptop this morning and found there was another update, so I updated and now it works!
The album in question is a various artists one, so I change the album artist to various artists, so it preserves the artist name on each individual track.
I don't know about you, but when an album has more than one disc, I always re-number the tracks and combine them all into one complete album, it looks tidier that way, instead of having disc 1, disc 2 etc.
I guess I'll have to get used to the new interface of itunes, as long as it works properly that's all that matters I suppose.

Consolidating tracks under one album

How do you consolidate tracks under one album... i imported an album and now it has multiple album covers, separating the tracks.

Have you had a look at this troubleshooting page? It may be of some help: Why aren't songs with the same album art grouped together

Putting songs(tracks) into an album

I have loaded a CD into itunes but many of the tracks have appear in seperate albums(with the same album title). How do I arrange the tracks into one album. I have tried "get information" but all the relavant headings etc appear to be the same. Nor do appear to be able to "drag" the tracks into an album. Please can anyone help.

Check to make sure that the album title is exactly the same for all the tracks (copy and paste the album name from one track to make sure). Any variation, even an extra space, will cause iTunes to treat the track as belonging to a different album.
Hope this helps.

HT4059 Can I use Consolidate Files to move several different tracks into one Album?

Can I use Consolidate Files to move different tracks into one Album?

No, that's not what the Consolidate command is for. That command for getting all your track files into a single folder. To get all the tracks in an album to appear together, just Get Info on the tracks and make the album name all the same for each track. See:
http://samsoft.org.uk/itunes/grouping.asp
Regards.

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