Transfer entire album?

I've got a 2gb nano and my music library is larger than that (about 3.5 gb). I've limited my songs to the most popular (4 and 5 star rating) and that works fairly well, but I have a couple of albums that I want the entire album. Is there a way to do this without creating a playlist for each album, or is that the only way to do it?
I tried dragging an album to the ipod, and that didn't work of course.

Thanks, Chris. I will try that. I'm figuring out different ways to use some of the Get Info boxes to select stuff for playlists also. I've used iTunes since it first came out, but now with the new iPod it's changing the way I look at my music! I didn't expect that.
KK

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My father wants to transfer or copy an entire album of songs from his iTunes music library saved on his Macbook Pro to an SD card. He has been able to do this with his 7 year old Dell Laptop but has not been successful with his Macbook.
The songs he's wanting to move are not purchased from the iTunes store but his own personal CD collection which he saved on his Macbook Pro. Again, he wants to know how to copy his personal library to a SD card with the ablum appearing as folder with its songs listed in order. He intends to take the songs saved on the SD card to his car and save them in the car's music player.
Thank you for the help.

Plug the SD card into the slot in the Mac.
If it doesn't have one, several manufacturers make a SD to USB adapter that basically turns the SD card into a flash drive. They're about $4.95 at BestBuy or WalMart. http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Camera-Memory-Cards-USB-Drives/Readers-Adapters/abca t0404007.c?id=abcat0404007
Provided the Finder preferences are set to show external disks on the desktop, once it's plugged in, it will appear on the desktop and the files or folders can be literally "dragged onto the icon and they'll copy to it with whatever artwork, and ID3 tags are in them.

TS1424 downloaded an entire album and everything is fine on my iPod, but on the computer 7 tracks have an exclamation point and when I try to play those track I get a message that the original files are missing.

Exlamation point on 7 tracks from an entire album, all the others are fine. It won't play on the laptop, I get an error message that the original files are missing. But they play fine on the iPod.

Try deleting those missing tracks from your computer's iTunes, connect the iPad to your computer and do File > Transfer Purchases - that should copy them back from the iPod

Autofill iPhone/iPod with entire albums only

Hello. Does anyone know how to cause an iPhone or iPod to autofill only entire albums from iTunes? (I just got an iPhone G4.) I'll be as explicit as I can...
I understand already that I can connect my iPhone, select it in the iTunes nav pane, select the Music tab at the top of the main window, choose "sync music" then "selected playlists, artists, blah blah", the pick through the albums and decide what gets synced. But this is not the question. And besides which, the iPhone will still be getting random songs from the various checked albums until capacity is reached. What I'm talking about would probably be a higher-level or more behind-the-scenes option (I expected to find it in preferences - was surprised at the ommission).
I would like to know how to command that the iPhone or other external take in only whole albums.
One example of how I picture this in action. I connect my iPhone and select the general "Music" folder in the nav pane (just below the iPhone icon itself, not the iTunes music library), I of course see whatever songs are on the device in the main window and the "Autofill From" and "Autofill" buttons on the bottom. I would select a playlist (I have a number of them set up by genre and other limiters) or the whole library in Autofill From, then click Autofill. iTunes would begin to push music to the iPhone, but it would push only entire randomly selected albums to the device.
Another example of how I'd like to see this work. I connect my iPhone and, like described earlier, go to the Music tab, I then take pains to select there whatever playlists or artists etc that I want iTunes to choose from when syncing. I would press the "Sync" button on the bottom right and iTunes would begin to push music to the iPhone. But, again, it would push only entire albums to the device; I suppose the program would be choosing its albums at random from the playlists, and doing what it could to include the desired (checked) albums, or albums by desired artists, but only syncing so many albums as capacity will allow, by which I accept that some albums will be left out.
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Do this with by making a smart playlist.
* First put your Shuffle to random "by albums" (Controls menus, then shuffle menu, then turn shuffle on).
Then make a smart playlist with these rules:
* No rules
* Limit to [size iPod] selected by [random]
* Select live updating
Now you get a cool random album playlist. If you don't like some of them, delete them and new albums will pop up in their place. A whole new list is made by deleting them all. You can transfer your playlist to to your ipod.

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I can't figure out how to transfer my albums on my iphone to photo stream so that I can see them on my apple computer. It did not automatically sync.

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kellyfromdanville wrote:
I am new to Apple!
Ah, new to routers too.
Perhaps it's best to have a local computer support person come set you up?
To explain everything would require writing a book here.
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Router, new Wireless N, firmware updated.
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I have added several CDs to my iTunes files, several Albums were added in the form of multiple files of the same Album title with random songs listed, but not the entire album in one file.
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tt2

In iTunes 11.0.2.26, an Albums search by track names returns albums as if they only have one track on them, but I still want to access the entire album. How can I have the search results show the entire album (with just the searched for name highlighted)?

Hello, all.
In iTunes 11.0.2.26, an Albums search by track names returns albums as if they only have one track on them, but I still want to access the entire album. How can I have the search results show the entire album (with just the searched for name highlighted)? For instance, I'm wanting to play an album with a particular track on it or I'm searching for albums that include that track. iTunes incorrectly assumes that all I'm after is that one track and then incorrectly displays the album as if there is only one ttrack on it. This is a bonkers default setting. Can I change this?

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tt2

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KM

nebttocs wrote:
Why is the new music forcing you to only be about singles?
It's not.
I wanted to add and delet whole albums and to add an entire album to a play list enough of this on song at a time.
Then do it this way.

I have all my music cd's on a hard drive as wav files when I try to add them to I tunes the files get there but no album info I end up with a bunch of track 1's by unknown artists. Is there a way to transfer each album over so it shows up like a normal CD

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