Scattered all Over !?...

Hi guys !
this past week i feel like all i do is stumble on each & every ''oddity'' of iTunes....
my last : i've done an ''album'' made up with several versions of the Flight of the Bumblebee by Rimsky Korsakov that i like, problem is despite all files being inside one folder which i named : Rimsky Korsakov - Flight of the Bumblebee, as soon as i import it into iTunes , iTunes seems to think the thing to do is to scatter them all over around the place : LOADS'A FUN !....tried ''add to Library'' thinking that ''bunching'' them up this way would do it .....i swear i could hear the iTunes Genie go : ''..nope, no can do Sir !..LMAO..''
worse, if i go clicking on each file throughout the library while holding the key cmd, then click on get info & give the album a name , i loose most ( but not all !!??... ) the names of the files & end up with 20 some files just named Flight of the Bumblebee - very weird....
is there a way of getting this sorted short of renaming each file INDIVIDUALLY ? please tell me there is ....
cheers
Nuno

nuno1959 wrote:
Hi guys !
is there a way of getting this sorted short of renaming each file INDIVIDUALLY ? please tell me there is ....
cheers
Nuno
my 1st idea would be to grouping them under, say, Bumblebee. from +view options+ in iTunes add the grouping to the main window
plan b would be to see if Doug has anything that could help you.

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