Sorting albums within an artist

Okay so I used to be able to sort my different albums by the same artist within the order that I set by going into "get info" and saying the albums were disc 1 through 10 or what have you. For example, if I had Linkin Park in my iTunes, I could say hybrid theory was disc 1 of 3 reanimation was 2 of 3 and meteora would be 3 of 3 and thats how it would display in my iTunes library, but now it doesn't do that anymore it just displays it randomly. I've done everything I can think of including selecting all my songs by Linkin Park for example and "get info" the lot and selecting for artist, album artist Linkin Park, setting them as all part of a compilation, even making sure all the tracks were numbered properly and the discs were numbered properly. Help?

That's unfortunate! Not sure why we had this "upgrade" in features for the iPod Touch compared to the iPod classic. See the following posts:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=12848753#12848753
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2703280&tstart=0

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Hi there.
When I import a compilation into iTunes, one album with different artists, I get an image for every track instead of just one image for the album. It's irritating as I like to keep my library tidy and have just one album image per album.
When in grid view, I right click on "album" and have the option of sorting albums, but the "within album" section is greyed out with the default "by artist" ticked. How do I access this menu in order to tick "by title"?
Or is there another way of compiling all the different artists and tracks under one single album?

Fantastic! Thanks for that, and just to help you out,VWJettaIpod, here is the thing to do:
select all your tracks that should come under one album only, get info, in the "multiple information" box, choose "options", tick "part of a compilation" and choose "yes", that's it!
Thanks again tt2.

Itunes 11 sorts album under different artists name in the artist view - any idea why?

I have just be kindly given the Maroon 5 Holiday gift via 12 days (thanks iTunes). I also have their album 'songs about Jane' and a track from a Rihanna album which is a Maroon 5 track featuring Rihanna but issued on the Rihanna album.
When sorted by Album the Maroon 5 albums and Rihanna track are sorted together under Maroon 5.
However, when sorted by Artist the artist for the Album 'Songs about Jane' is being shown as Rihanna (?) but when I check the 'Get Info' data Maroon 5 are clearly shown as the Album Artist. The holiday gift and the Rihanna track are shown under the artist Maroon 5.
Wierd ... any ideas why and how to correct?

Wish I did. I tried the group function but that didn't help in iTunes. The search function is the best I came up with. I can answer the question do you have susch and such artist. But I can't browse for an artist I don't remember exactly or have misspelled. Fortunately I don't think I've bought anything from iTunes that i already had. If you can't see an artist it's possible you think you don't have something you actually do have. Sorry, still hoping for a better work around or better yet a fix.

Sort albums by "variaous artists"

Hello -- I have many albums that are collections -- containing various artists.
With the new iTunes (v11) when I list my albums by artist, I can't find the albums in the collections since its listing
the album by all the artist on the album
Is there a way to just list the icon of the album once with the artist as "various"?
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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

Within Music Library can anyone please explain why when I select the option to sort 'Album by Artist' a number of tracks are being treated as separate albums? How can I correct this? I have tried to 'drag and drop' but that doesn't work.

Within music Library can anyone please explain why after I select the option to sort 'Album by Artist' a number of tracks are being treated as separate albums? How can I fix this? I have tried to manually correct by 'drag and drop' individual tracks but that doesn't work. My music library includes a number of repeat album artwork images simply because not all tracks are being listed under the one album making my library more difficult to use than it should. Any advise would be appreciated.

See Grouping tracks into albums.
tt2

How can I sort albums by album artist while keeping compilations together?

Argh, I'm getting a bit exasperated. Basically I just want to be able to scroll through cover flow and see all my albums with one cover representing each album, with all the compilations near the end under "V" for various. Surely most people would want to scroll through their albums in this way??
So I've gone through and added all the album artist info, which has worked fine for the artist albums. But for all the "Various" ones, instead of doing the logical thing and grouping them together by album, iTunes orders these all by track artist. There doesn't seem to be any secondary sort function..
I'm always defending Mac and Apple products for their logical applications and ease of use, and now I feel let down.. If there's a way around this please let me know! Thanks,
Malinna

The trouble you're encountering is that iTunes sorts first by Album Artist, then by Artist. Thus, within each Album Artist, you'll get multiple Artist clumps.
You want to sort "Album by Artist". This will, first, strip out all your compilations and sort them to the end of your library, then sort using the hierarchy Album Artist (or Artist if there is none) > Album > Disc # > Track #. Click the Album column header until Album by Artist is displayed. (You can also choose Album by Year, which will sort albums chronologically within Album Artist.)
If you want to keep albums together, you'll need to sort on an Album column; other columns are bound to clump things by whatever you're sorting on.

Sorting /Grouping Issue: Single Artist Compilation Album Doesn't Group

iTunes 8 Sorting / Grouping Issue
EXAMPLE
• Album: Essential Willie Nelson
• There are 22 songs on this Disc
• 19 of them are labelled "Willie Nelson" in the artist field
• 3 of them are lebelled "Willie Nelson Feat. Waylon Jennings" in the artist field
PROBLEM
• Album will not stay grouped together when in the standard "Sort by Artist" in Grid View. A very legitimate expectation to be able to have Willie's name listed along with his pals in the artist field and have them grouped together in one album within Willie's albums section. 19 songs group within one album in the Willie Nelson section and the other 3 are placed separately either in the compilation section or as separate albums within the regular artists grid view.
I've read most if not all postings that suggest solutions but no matter what... they don't work. The only way that I know to work is to strip out all other names and leave only "Willie Nelson" in the Artist field. All other sorting and grouping options don't work for this issue... I've tied every combination. My opinion is that this is just a limitation at this time and there is no solution until future updates. I don't want a cheezy work-around either, that's very "unApple like". I assume it to be fixed in future updates.
Bueller... Bueller?
Anyone?

There's a few other "goodies" I have found also but haven't had time to check out.
If you have songs not in iTunes that you want to add to iTunes in a different format than the song is in...
(This is carried over from at least 7.4)
Set the Importing prefs to what you want the new file to be.
Hold the Option key and go to menu Advanced and select *Convert selection to* AAC (or whatever is in the Import prefs}.
This will add it to iTunes in the new format.
Previously, you had to Import the file, change the prefs, go to Advanced - *Convert selection to*, convert the file, then delete the original from iTunes.
This is new...
In iTunes 8, go to to File - > *Show duplicates*. (moved from View menu).
Now hold Option and go to to File and it now displays *Show exact duplicates*.
Don't know what it means by *exact duplicate* though.

ITunes 11 sort by within album functionality gone?

Hello, I was wondering about an option that appears to be gone from 11, which I loved in 10. I have always made compilation albums(not a playlist mind you) that contain many songs from various artists. In iTunes 10, I used to be able to open my album and then sort by artist so that within that album all the artists and their songs would be bunched together. Example: I have an album of 60's-early 80's Soul/R&B. It contains many songs from many artists. I used to be able to open that album, sort by artist so say Al Green and all the songs I had from him in that album would show up at the top. Then, of course, everybody else in alphabetical order would follow with their songs. I hope this functionality has not been lost or if so, is there a way around it?

Thanks for the reply. I was being somewhat sarcastic about my hope that Apple will make changes based on the feedback tool (like with Cover Flow most likely never returning to iTunes, especially with it changed so much in iOS 7), especially not for an issue as isolated as this one.
I forgot about the issue with multiple albums in a year as well, since there's no way to denote which came first, so unless they happen to be in alphabetical order they will appear out of order as well. I know there's the "Release Date" column option, but AFAIK that is organic to iTunes alone, and does not stick with the ID3 tag of the track. I've thought of your suggestion before, but guess I just needed a push to abandon the way I was doing it.
As far as editing the sort album values to utilize the dates, or album release orders, I'm aware of them, but with over 1000 albums in my library the time it would take would be rather forbidding. Just have to keep hoping the small things won't go unnoticed forever! (Really, if iTunes would pattern itself off the original MusicMatch Jukebox that used to be the standard for iPod syncing, we wouldn't have need of all this discussion!)

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I'm trying to figure out a way to make a playlist of songs I generally like from a very large library to fit on my iPod. The songs aren't rated, and I don't want to have a totally random selection chosen by a smart playlist.
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Having spent a lot of time over the years getting the metadata in my iTunes library just right, I've noticed a frustrating problem when it comes to iTunes Match.
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Wow!! You've went to a lot of work! I'm sure I'll figure this out eventually! I have read down through your entire article and tried everything and I stilllll can't get it! It's funny you responded to this thread, I actually had already used some o f your scripts. I am doing all of this for my church, so that's why I have so many artisits, albums, etc. and I've tried delegating the work out to different people but it is very hard to make them all do it the same way...so here we are. I tried using the "sort album" feature in the get-tag-info and it didn't do anything, I tried making it a compilation and "compilation" came up under "artists" in the normal itunes screen but NOT in the music selection screen for my ipad, I tried converting the id3 tags back to none and then back up to v. 2.3, and I really don't want to go through all my "album artist" values and change them to the "album" because then I wouldn't be able to see the tracks by artist and besides that I can't find any tag renamer that is capable of changing album artist and contributing artist. See the 2 screen shots below, they should tell the story. Thanks for the help!!!

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I have a bunch of albums imported into my itunes but I have problems sorting them the way I want it.
I want it to be sorted first by artist then by year so I have all the albums from 1 artist together in the order they was released
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I am running iTunes 10.4.1.10 on Windows 7 (64-bit)
I was wondering about the behavior of sort album by artist or album by artist/year. Instead of sorting solely by artist or artist/year, it seems to take into account album artist. Is this correct? Previous versions of iTunes (iTunes 7 and iTunes 8) used only the album and artist field not album artist. Is there anyway to force it to sort solely by artist and ignore album artist?
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Album Artist has been supported since iTunes 7 (7.1 I think) and normally takes preference over Artist when it comes to grouping tracks in iTunes. As you say the iPod Classic doesn't work quite the same way. You'll find my extensive thoughts on fixing things at http://samsoft.org.uk/iTunes/grouping.asp You might find that different vlaues of Group Compilations and Use Album Artists restore the view you were familiar with, otherwise it might be time to rethink the strategy.
If it is simply a mattter of swapping Album Artist with Artist then I can (and will) rustle up a script for that... It will end up on the list at http://samsoft.org.uk/iTunes/scripts.asp shortly. More complex rearrangements of properties are also possibe once you know what you want to achieve.
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Sorting songs on an album with multiple artists

Im trying to sort an album with multiple artists so that in the artist view the song appears under that artist like this:
The song Young and Beautiful is from The Great Gatsby soundtrack but as its by Lana Del Rey and im in the Artist view I want it here with the rest of Lana Del Rey as opposed to Various Artists. I moved it here by clearing the "album artist" section in the info tab for the song.
However when I do this and change to Album view, the song doesnt get sorted with the rest of the Great Gatsby soundtrack, istead it is like this:
How can I have the songs from an album with various artists sorted by Artist in the artist tab and then properly sorted by Album in the Album tab. Ive been playing around with it for a while and I cant work it out.
Can anyone help me out?

have you tried to mark the album as a "Compilation" album? Then the songs should sta togeeether in the "Album" view.
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