Two albums show in itunes and i would like to merge them

Question

Trying to organize my itunes folders.  In itunes, I scroll through by album, and i bought some songs from an album.  12 of the songs are under one album and 1 song is in another one.  I went to get info tab on all 13 trucks, the artist and album are all the same.  I then tried to label all the tracks as 1 of 13, 2 of 13, etc, but it still shows as being two separate albums.  Not the end of the world, but i can't figure out how to have it all as one album.  thank you for your time.

Answer 1

I believe other than Artist and Album, which o need to match exactly, sometimes the box Album Artist will be the problem. Typically I find in this box that a guest artist name may be included here so where Artist might be 'John Smith' and Album as 'ABC' the Album Artist might read 'John Smith featuring Mary Jones' and this will list the song separately from the rest. The only solution I know of is to change the listing in the Album Artist space to match that of the rest of the songs. If I have wanted to keep the information of the featured artist listed on that song I move it to the song title such as 'Song [featuring Mary Jones].  This method has worked for me. Some times you have to look carefully at all the various information boxes to see what the difference are.
One other thing I have done regarding those 'separated' songs is to select the album title in Column Browser (I really recommend using the Column Browser at the top as it makes it easier, to me, to search artist and albums and make changes to multiple items without having to highlight each individual song in an album to make your edit). Anyways having highlighted the album title in question then Get Info and go to the Options tab. Under Options select Compilation and then Ok. This generally will make the songs of that album come together. However I do not like having these albums under the 'Compilations' heading under Artist so I then go back into Options and change it back to No but the songs have stayed as one album.
Whatever you are struggling with in terms of having all these songs together there is always something that is either 'different' or doesn't conform to iTunes 'logic'. Once you get use to that the 'fix' becomes easier to find. I have had this happen a lot but I have never failed to get it corrected