iTunes help please!

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Okay I need help please with iTunes. I put my City and Colour album on my mac, but for some reason its copied it into two different album folders. How to I put it so that the album is one, not two, and complete as it should be?

I've included a pic to help explain what I mean

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Thanks in advance

Sarah
 
Look at the Album name and Artist name... If they are slightly different, iTunes will see them as 2 separate things.
 
Look at the Album name and Artist name... If they are slightly different, iTunes will see them as 2 separate things.

Spot on, and you can see the different name in the album listing.

You can manually edit this:

Go into music and select List View (view Menu), sort by Artist name (click the 'Artist tab) and then scroll down to 'City and Colour'. You should see two different names, one being just 'City and Colour' and the other 'City and Colour Fxxxxx' as seen in your screen cap.

Right click on the ones that you want to change and select 'Get Info'. Click on the Info tab, and you can now manually edit the Artist Name, Album Name, in fact any of its attributes.

You can batch edit by making a multiple track selection and then editting as above, but there are minor complications with this, and if you haven't done it before, it's best to try one track at a time.

Once you've edited all the tracks they should now appear in the same album.

It's important to do this in List View, because if you choose Album View and make a typo, the track will move from the Album that you're working on and you will have to hunt for it.

It's something that happens quite often in compilation albums when the producers haven't written the metadata properly.
 
There are songs on the album that will have some sort of collaboration on them, as that looks like the classic "... featuring..." appendage that iTunes loves to add just to screw your library up.

I think I spend more time reentering information to keep the library in order than I do actually importing the music because of things like this!
 
It's hardly iTunes or the record producers fault, more likely the gracenote CDDB database that iTunes uses to retrieve the CD details from.

To fix it, select all the tracks as described above, right click and select "Info".
You can then enter "City and Colour" as the Album Artist and this should group it correctly, and still leave the artists for the individual tracks the same.
 
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