Songs with no album

Over the years, I've collected hundreds of songs that don't have album information in the IDv3 tag. On the Zen, this seems to create a problem. If I want to browse for the song title in "All Tracks," I can play it. But if I want to access the song by the artist's name, my Zen tells me that there are no known tracks for that artist. If I take one of those songs and put in a bogus album name, my Zen will let me navigate to the artist name, the album name, and finally the song. I'd sure hate to do that for every MP3 I own, though. Is there a way around that, and can I suggest that Creative address this issue in the future? Not all MP3s have album information.

The player reads tag info. What I have done for the issue you are having is. I made a folder for the files gave the folder a name which is the same name I gave the files for an album name. If you are using Vista windows explorer makes this very easy to do.

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Label song with mulitiple albums

Below is a suggestion I have to improve iTunes. If you agree, please go to http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunesapp.html and fill out the form with information about the suggestion to let Apple know that you want to see this feature in the next version of iTunes. If you want to improve upon this suggestion, please post you improvement on this thread so that others may have the benefit of your suggestion and may also suggest it to Apple.
What I believe would be extremely useful in iTunes is the ability to label a song as being on more than one album. The point of this would be that some identical songs are on different albums. Let's take for instance an artist who has several albums (like the Beatles) and several compilaltion, number ones, or greatest hits albums. Usually there is nothing special about the songs on the compilation albums, they are just duplicates of the ones on the original albums. If a person owns all of them and has stored them on their computer, then, in order to keep albums together, he or she has to have duplicate songs stored. In other words, if I wanted to listen to one album at some time and then a compilation cd with songs from the orginal album at some other time, I have to have two copies of the same song with different album labels just so I can listen to the complete albums. This can take up a lot of disk space (which is a very important consideration on an iPod, even the new 80gb models). In order to save disk space I can delete all my duplicates, but then I will have albums that are not complete when I listen to them because they have songs that are also on another album.
So please make it possible to label one song as being on more than one album. So when I browse by album, it will show up under each album. When I browse by artist or randomly, it can show that it is on multiple albums. This would be incredibly useful.
Powerbook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.7)

I have the same probleme... But no solution. Sorry... I'll tell You if I find one!
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Songs with no album listed don't add to my iPod.

All of the other songs will copy to my iPod but the ones with no album won't. I can't get them to go to my iPod no matter what I do.

is there any way to get all the unlisted albums replaced with question marks? I dont have the patients to find out every album

ITunes didnt purchase all songs with Buy Album

I wanted to buy the Fight Club soundtrack, but the whole album was Album Only. Since I wanted to get every song on it, this wasnt a problem. I clicked Buy Album, but for some reason, iTunes only bought the first 14 tracks off the 16 track score. I checked Complete My Album, but it's not on there. Any ideas?

Use the iTunes "Store" menu -> Check for Available Purchases.
If you still don't get them, go here and fill out the form: http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/store/browser/
Use the purchase(s) problem category.

Why aren't songs with same album art grouped together?

Yes I know that in itunes help this comes up exatly.... but the method they give you doesnt work.
I was an album purchased from the itunes music store like cmon it ungrouped them its self!
So please help its driving me crazy having 20 songs in different places from the same album and stupid thing is it will rename everything "blank" but it wont add them to a compilation in get info for multiple items.

Hi newobo,
So, you're saying that you tried to follow [this instructions|http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1468] from Apple, but didn't work?
If so, try sorting the library by "Artist" or "Album". If you don't how to do this, just click once over the correspondent column located above the music list in your iTunes library!
Hope this helps! If you still have doubts or problems, please reply...
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Is it possible to associate a song with more than one album?

I have a number of duplicate songs as a result of owning both an artist's album and compilation albums. Where they are identical I would like to associate the song with each album keeping only one version but allowing the song to play within the either the artist's album or the compilation. Is that possible without using the playlist option?

Can't be done.

Every song without an album shows up as its own "Unknown Album"!

In the album browser in iTunes 8, every song whose 'Album' field is blank shows up as its own 'Unknown Album'. I have twenty Genesis songs with no album set on them, so I have twenty default music-note album covers that show up with "Unknown Album - Genesis" on them.
How do I tell iTunes to please group these together, so that all of the songs from a particular artist that don't have an album will show up in a single "Unknown Album"?

I have the opposite problem. I want every one of the "unknown album" tracks to show up as its own icon, at least for the purpose of sorting Album By Year. It used to be that when I sorted ABY, each "Unknown Album" track got sorted by its own year.
Now the tracks from before I switched to iTunes 8 still behave like that. New "Unknown Album" tracks, though, all get lumped together and sorted with the earliest date. Further, it uses the earliest cover art, even if each of the tracks has its own art.
Example: Singles by Bloodhound Gang
-- Yellow Fever (1995) no cover art
-- Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo - The Jason Nevins mix (2005) cover art from the single
-- Uhn Tiss Uhn Tiss Uhn Tiss - The Scooter remix (2005) cover art from the single
What I want is: Yellow Fever shows up next to album "Use Your Fingers" (1995), others show up next to album "Hefty Fine" (2005), each with their own cover art.
What I get is: All three tracks in a single "Unknown Album" sorted at 1995 with cover art from Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo single.
I get my desired sorting for every other artist whose "Unknown Album" tracks I had in my library before the conversion, and I get this broken behavior on these tracks I've added since the conversion. No amount of removing from my library and re-importing seems to make iTunes realize that +I don't want them sorted together+.

When I put a song from the internet into an album with bought songs, it doesn't show the artwork for the added song. How do I get it to have the same artwork as all the other songs in the album?

If that was confusing, I'll reexplain it:
S, I bought 2 Lil Jon Kings of Crunk songs from itunes that were on the same album. The album was clean with no explicit sign on the artwork. Prior to buying those songs, before I had money in itunes, I got a song from that album from youtube, and I didn't put in "- clean" in the album name of that song. So, yesterday, I combined those 3 songs into just one clean album (the youtube song was clean also). Now, the 2 bought songs have the artwork without the explicit sign, but the youtube song has no artwork at all anymore. How can I make them share the same artwork?

Drag the artwork from the artwork window to the desktop. Then, select the song without artwork and drag the artwork to the blank artwork window.

When I import a CD album that includes songs with co-artists, the album is saved once with all of the songs with the main artist only, and then one album for each song with a different co-artist. How can I avoid that or fix that result after the fact.

When I import a CD ablum that includes songs with co-artists, the album is saved once under the album name with all the songs from the main artist; then each song with a different co-artist is saved separately under the album title with just that song. Who do I prevent that or fix it after the fact, i.e., copy the single songs to the main album?

Why aren't songs with the same album art grouped together? - http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1468
Compilation checkbox is under options tab when editing multiple tracks at once.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4559720 - discussion of using compilation vs. album artist to group tracks
Jan 2014 discussion: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5775641

Since downloading the "NEW' itunes my ipod touch will not sync correctly - songs I've added to playlists on my pc and podcasts that have newly downloaded do not synk to my ipod - I want the old version back with the album cover display - help

Now running itunes version 11.0.1.12 since the update I've added songs to playlists and they won't sync - I was able to get the songs into my ipod library by downloading from the cloud but they wouldn't even sync from my pc library to my ipod - when I first downloaded this crappy update - so sorry i did - the thing wouldn't sync at all after rebooting my windows xp pc three times it says it syncs fine and goes through all the motions but it won't pull over new content at all - songs or podcasts - on top of that the new version seems to have done away with the album cover display - I just got an android phone as a gift i was going to take back I may keep it now and drawer my beloved ipod now that apple has made it obsolete

There's a good guide here on how to roll back to 10.7 https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4559563?tstart=0

In ios 6 I could choose an artist on the music app and see all his albums in a list. Now, with ios 7, it shows all the songs from every album, making it EXTREMELY hard to see all the albums. Is there a way to minimize this view and see only the albums?

Hello!
I need some help with the music app in ios 7...
In ios 6, I could choose an artist from the "srtists" view and it would show me all his albums as a list. Now, in ios 7, when I choose an artist, it shows me every song underneath every album, making it impossible to see al the albums at once! Is there anyway to minimize this view so I could see only the albums' titles as a list?
It is VERY annoying. I would very much appreciate any help on this!
Thank you

Exactly!
This is all about the experience and accessibility. I don't even mind if the new desing is beautiful or not, but if I find myself, like you, avoiding looking for my music, my experience becomes frustrating. I have about 35 albums of a single artist and I used to love going over them and choose the right thing for me, especially being on the road a lot, and now I have to think twice about even entering his name.
I really hope Apple will take those kind of things into consideration when they issue updates for ios 7, and maybe also give us back the goole search which was embeded into the spotlight search (which is really not that big of a request).
And for your 4s - get the new iphone, it's MUCH better

HT1473 Sometimes when I copy a CD into iTunes all of the songs do not show y up in one album, but mutiple albums, all with the same name. Is there an easy way to get all of the songs into one album.

Sometimes when I copy a CD into iTunes all of the songs do not show y up in one album, but mutiple albums, all with the same name. Is there an easy way to get all of the songs into one album.

Generally adding a common album artist will fix things.
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My ipod touch(4th gen) just recently had the iOS 5 update.bu for some reason about 80% of my music collection appears with no album artwork and doesnt play any songs.basically it has my music on their but wont let me access it? please help!

My ipod touch(4th gen) just recently had the iOS 5 update.bu for some reason about 80% of my music collection appears with no album artwork and doesnt play any songs.basically it has my music on their but wont let me access it? please help!

i have the same problem but i have ios 5.01. how do you unsync? please help, thanks

Songs with the same album art not grouped together in iTunes for Windows

Brand new iTunes user here - do not yet have an iPod! (Needed some music only on iTunes)
When I first started up iTunes, it imported all of my music I already had on my computer. A few of them are soundtracks with different artists.
When they are shown in the iTunes library, the soundtracks have been broken up by Artist instead of staying as a whole album. How do I get the songs back together as one album? I found the folder on my computer where they are stored and combined them there, but they are still separate in the iTunes library.
Thanks from a total newbie!

Mark the tracks on the album as "Part of a compilation" and fill in the Album Artist field as "Various Artists". Click on the first track of your album to highlight it, hold down the shift key and click on the last track to highlight everything in between. Right click on the selection and choose Get Info. You'll get a message asking if you want to edit multiple items, say yes. If you are using iTunes 8 in the box that opens go to the Options tab and change "part of a compilation" to Yes and choose OK.
Also in your library click on the title bar of album column to bring all the tracks in the same album together. If you keep clicking in the title you can choose it to sort by Album, Album by Artist or Album by Year. Clicking on the little triangle on the right side of the column header changes the sort direction. Pointing up and the column is sorted in Ascending order (A to Z). Pointing down and the column is sorted in Descending order (Z to A).
You can also have a look at this article: Why aren't songs with the same album art grouped together

I just bought 4 songs on iTune.Album:Voices light to the wind.I had the cd at home, but I lost it and decided to download the songs which I liked so much,I'd like to ask you to transfer me these songs with the original time!

I just bought 4 songs on iTune.Album:Voices light as the wind.I had the cd at home, but I lost it and decided to download the songs which I liked so much,I'd like to ask you to transfer me these songs with the original time , the songs are :
Venus (5:55 seconds) , Andromeda ( 8:04 seconds) , Hestia ( 9:47 seconds) and Aphrodite ( 6:39 seconds) !
I thank you in advance for your attention!
Flávia.

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