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iTunes Help
Posted by Rob Pook on 16 March 2009 - 10:22am.
Writing this in the hope that someone in the massive might be able to give me a little bit of help with my iTunes (Version 7, if the devil is in the detail).
I've got the Complete Columbia Set of Gil Evans and Miles Davis (bought from iTunes with a gift voucher), and am trying to split the six discs so that they appear as separate albums in my iTunes list and not all lumped together.
At present, all I seem to be able to do is change the name of the one album they appear as in iTunes and make them appear countless times in the album list on my iPod.
Any ideas that might not involve me having to procure some CD-R's, burn them and re-import the albums?
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highlight each seperate disc
highlight each seperate disc of songs on itunes - right click and click on 'Get info' - a screen will appear, click on the 'info' tab' where you can rename each album '........ (disc 1)', '......(disc 2') etc.
This is what I did
with the Steely Dan collection.
Click on the first track of the album - then press and hold the shift key and click on the last track. This will highlight all the tracks. Then right click on any of the highlighted tracks and click 'Get Info' from the top of the drop down list. You then change the name of the album in the info box and click 'Ok'.
Repeat for the other albums and you're done.
Okay here goes
The easiest way would be to create a separate playlist for each album and I'll assume you know how to do that.
But to achieve your stated request you'll have to rename each album (let's say "Gil & Miles Vol. 1 to 6)
So in iTunes select/highlight the tracks you want in Volume 1, hit command-I (control-I on PC) or from the menu bar choose File and then Get Info so that you see a window headed "Multiple Item Information". Enter the new name in the Album field on the "Item" tab and for safety's sake do the same in the Sort Album field of the "Sorting" tab. Click OK and then select the tracks you want in Volume 2 and repeat as necessary. You will probably lose the artwork, to remedy that find the album's listing on Amazon and back in iTunes select all tracks again, do the Get Info thing and drag the picture into the Artwork box.
Hope this helps.
Artwork Tip
Highlight all the tracks of an album and right click on any of the tracks, then choose 'Get Album Artwork' from the drop down list and iTunes will get the artwork for you if it can.
Many thanks
Job done. Cheers to all of you who replied.
In particular, thanks to Obdewlla - I'd been trying to change the album names, but didn't even know there was a 'sort album' option on iTunes! Turns out that when I showed that, it was still grouping them all under the 'Complete Columbia etc.' album.