Two disc album gets turned into one album on iPhone
I downloaded a two-disc album to my computer and in iTunes it showed up as two different albums, one for each disc. I corrected this issue by renaming the album name to be the same for all the songs on both discs ("The Mozart Album" as opposed to "The Mozart Album [Disc 1]" and "The Mozart Album [Disc 2]"). I also re-numbered the tracks to make sense in this new one-album solution (the tracks from the first disc came first, and then the tracks from the second disc followed, as opposed to having duplicate track numbers).
This seemed to work fine on iTunes. However, when I then synced my iPhone to my computer, to upload the new album to my iPhone, two albums appeared in the music app. Both of them had the same name ("The Mozart Album") and also all of the tracks retained their modified track numbers. So one album was called "The Mozart Album" and had tracks 7-19, and the other album was called "The Mozart Album" and had tracks 1-6. There seemed to be no reason why the two albums shouldn't just be one album with all the tracks from both discs, as I had created in iTunes. I figured it must be something to do with the properties of the actual m4a files, but I couldn't find anything in the properties that would've caused this (I was looked for something like a "Disc Number" property). There is the fact that the original titles of the files had 01 and 02 at the beginning of each track to indicate whether the track belonged to the first disc or the second disc, respectively, but I don't think that the name of the file would affect how they are sorted in the music app on the iPhone.
I am at a loss for how to force these tracks to be consolidated in one album as they should be on my iPhone and I would appreciate any help that can be offered.
I checked for differences in the fields across all of the tracks and found none that shouldn't be there. The track numbering is 1 through 6 on Disk 1 and 1 through 13 on Disk 2. They are all tagged "of 2" in the Disk number entries. See below:
I also tried un-syncing and re-syncing the album to my phone and nothing changed. See below:
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