'split' or multiple album seen in coverflow or grid view

Looked through previous posts, didn't see this, sorry if old news. I have latest itunes running on dell laptop.
In Itunes library, it somehow 'split' an album, creating 2 identical entries, one with 9 tracks, one with 1 track. In 'get info', all the entries appear correct, i.e. no reason for the split to exist that I can see, everything spelled correctly, etc.
Have been completely unsuccessful figuring out how to "combine" or copy/paste, or move the orphan track into the bigger album file.
Any ideas? Thanks...

I frequently get this problem... I like to sort by "Album by Artist" and sometimes as was stated before, the artist has a "Guest" or "featured" artist and iTunes will think this is a seperate album. Try Highlighting all the tracks at once, click on "Get Info" and then retype the album name and the artists name. When done, if that doesn't re-group the album, you may have to just suck it up and click on "Compilation" on the last "Get Info" page. This is a sort of last ditch effort to keep the tracks together.
Most of the time I find there was a mispelling on the one track that is not grouped compared to the others. Also if one track has a capital letter where the other tracks do not: "The White Album" as opposed to "the White Album", iTunes will see that as a seperate album.
Sometimes, even closing iTunes and then reopening it will fix the sort after I've made edits. Other times I retype every single field and still can't find the error!

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Hello there, Fineshot.
The following Knowledge Base article might provide some information that should help you resolve the issue you're having:
Why aren't songs with the same album art grouped together?
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1468
Thanks for reaching out to Apple Support Communities.
Cheers,
Pedro D.

Songs from a single album STILL split up (multiple albums in cover flow)

I performed the steps listed in the FAQ to consolidate files of this sort (select all files in the Album, do a "Get Info", and make sure all Album/Album Artist/Artist entries are the same), but the multiple albums I see in cover flow are still there. Has anyone had this problem?

One other place it might cause them to break up are the disc _ of _ fields and the Track _ of _ fields.
If they are different from track to track, that might do it. Select all the tracks again, do a Get Info on the bunch. disc _ of _ fields should all be blank, but just in case one or more does have that filled in, but not all of them, go ahead and check the little check marks next to those two fields to reset them ALL to blanks.
Then for the Track _ of _ fields fields, if the second one is not filled in, that could be a problem. It should show the total number of tracks in the CD. So 10, 12, etc. whatever the total number is, if it is NOT there, then fill it in.
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Hello there, Fineshot.
The following Knowledge Base article might provide some information that should help you resolve the issue you're having:
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http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1468
Thanks for reaching out to Apple Support Communities.
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I've noticed that performance when using both Coverflow and grid view has improved, however this is at the expense of blurry album art.
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How can i prevent itunes from splitting individual albums into multiple albums?

How do prevent itunes from splitting albums with various artists into multiple albums?
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It's probably better to put Various Artists into the Album Artist box rather than just "various". Make sure it's the Album Artist field though. In addition, you need to mark the album as a compilation. When setting the complete album, the Part of a compilation is on a drop-down menu on the File/Get Info/Options tab:
but if changing just one song, it's a tick-box on the Info tab:
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I have a particular album that seems to be always split as though it's multiple albums, containing only one song.
I've tried all the tricks that I know of, including the Get Info trick, and even ticking the compilation option. I've even re-named all the song titles, and even manually deleted & re-imported songs.
For some reason, I haven't been able to solve this one, and I've put this little problem aside for the last week or two, but now I'm starting to wonder if I ran into another iTunes bug here. Using the latest version.

ALL of the tag data has to match for the songs belonging to any given album (except of courser for track number and title). Just select ALL tracks on the album and re-enter the information. If you still have problems, go to View > View Options and enable (temporarily) a wider variety of columns to view in the iTunes window. You should then see where the discrepancy is.
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Try *One cover, too many tracks* below:
*HowTo: Grouping Tracks Into Albums*
Excuse the long post, but hopefully covering all the bases (that I can think of) will help you fix the other issues you are likely to run into as you try to organise your iTunes library.
*Use an album friendly view*
iTunes will let you sort music on many columns, some of which are unlikely to group albums together or put the tracks in their normal order. The most useful order for editing the library is probably *Album by Artist*. If you're not already there, select the list view and click on the column heading for Artist until it reads Album by Artist.
*One cover, too many tracks*
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*Missing Artist or Album not with others by same artist*
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*One album, too many covers*
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*One album, still too many covers*
iTunes may split albums into two or more sections if some tracks from the album have different values for Artist, Album Artist, Album, No. of Discs or Part of a Compilation. Tiny differences such as trailing spaces, accented characters or variants of symbols can sometimes be quite hard to spot. The iPod is also more sensitive to case variations and may split or reorder an album that looks okay in iTunes. Normally overtyping the desired value for each shared field will complete the grouping of the album into one entity. Occasionally, however, this method seems to fail. When this happens I've found that you can force every field to update properly by adding some extra text - e.g. a trailing X, which once applied seems to complete the joining of the tracks into one album. Once this has happened the extra data can be removed and the album should remain properly grouped.
*Tried that, there are STILL too many covers!*
The Sort Artist, Sort Album & Sort Album Artist fields can be used to override the normal sort order. For example iTunes automatically drops leading articles (a/an/the) so "The Beatles" are arranged under "B" instead of "T". Occasionally different tracks from the same album can have different values in these sort fields which can also break up the grouping. Making the sort columns visible in iTunes can help with spotting & correcting such problems.
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Multi-disc albums are often listed as *Album (CD1)* for CD 1, *Album (CD2)* for CD 2 etc. To display these properly using just one cover, each disc should have the correct *Disc X of Y* values set, and then the entire album should be given the single title Album. Being somewhat obsessive I also renumber the tracks sequentially, working backwards from the last track (so that no two tracks ever have the same number) until I reach disc 1. BTW You can still give the individual discs different artwork should it be relevant so that the correct artwork will be displayed as the album progresses.
*One artist, many names*
With some artists, particularly classical composers, you should be aware of alternative representations of their names. E.g. 2Pac vs. Tupac. The menus will work best if for each artist you standardise on just one form of their name. E.g. make a choice between Mozart, W.A. Mozart or Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and then apply it consistently. For classical music I tend also to use the Composer as the Artist & Album Artist and either discard the performer details or place these into the Comments field.
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I read all the other post and still having probs with multiple album cover for one CD? Here is a pic of what I am experiencing.
http://homepage.mac.com/gwilchek/PhotoAlbum137.html
Thanks

I read all the other post and still having probs with
multiple album cover for one CD? Here is a pic of
what I am experiencing.
http://homepage.mac.com/gwilchek/PhotoAlbum137.html
Thanks
Albums that feature a mixture of artists cause the sorting/grouping in iTunes to split an album even if it is marked as a compilation. A particularly good example of such an Album is Queen's Greatest Hits III which features 'guest' artists like David Bowie. This album would still be considered to be a Queen album but the artist of some tracks would not be Queen.
Microsoft of all people, came up with a solution for this which was to add an additional meta tag for albums called "Album Artist" as opposed to the normal "Artist" tag (which is used to indicate the Artist of a particular track).
Apple after receiving requests from people (including myself) added support for this Album Artist tag in iTunes 7 but unfortunately only did half the job. With iTunes 7 you can now see and edit this tag but you cannot browse or sort by this tag. Therefore when you browse or sort by Artist, iTunes is using the "Artist" tag and not the "Album Artist" tag and hence your tracks are not sorted as you expected and albums like Queen's Greatest Hits III still get split up.
The ONLY way to get iTunes to display albums properly grouped is to sort by the Album name, if you do this then Cover Flow will only display each album once (as you would expect).
Windows Media Player (unlike iTunes) does let you browse by Album Artist.
Note: If you have more than one Album with the same name e.g. "Great Hits" things may once again get interesting, I work around that by adding a space character at the end of the name so "Great Hits" and "Great Hits " are considered different.

'split' or multiple album seen in coverflow or grid view

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