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Re: Odd iTunes titling problem. Can you help?

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In message <1n1hg6y.1u1veg211y1mrcN%dempson@actrix.gen.nz> David Empson <dempson@actrix.gen.nz> wrote:
> Robert Peirce <bob@peirce-family.com> wrote:

>> I have three different albums called "Discoveries" by three different
>> artists.  If I use the same name in the Album field iTunes tries to 
>> combine them into one so I had to title them "Discoveries CA", 
>> "Discoveries AP" and "Discoveries OP" for Cannonball Adderley, Art 
>> Pepper and Oscar Pettiford.  In each case the Artist field contains the
>> name.

> I can't explain this one, unless all three albums have the same text in
> Album Artist or one of the Sort fields is interfering.

Yeah, I have several different albums with the same name and have never
had iTunes group them into a single album.

"Greatest Hits" and "Live" for example.

>> At the same time I have a number of Mosaic sets I called "The Complete
>> Blue Note Recordings."  The artist field indicates who is in each set.
>> For some reason, iTunes treats these as separate albums even though the
>> Album titles are identical.

> You need to set Album Artist to the same value for this to be a single
> album. With separate values in Artist and a blank Album Artist, iTunes
> shows them as separate albums.

Yes.

> (The Compilation option may also work without needing to set Album
> Artist but I usually set Album Artist anyway, to "Various Artists" if
> nothing else is appropriate.)

I only use "Various Artists" for things like a cast album where the
specific singer on a specific song doesn't matter. Otherwise, on
compilation, I set artists by track because there is no overarching work
tying the tracks together.

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Odd iTunes titling problem. Can you help? Robert Peirce <bob@peirce-family.com> - 2017-02-14 12:27 -0500
  Re: Odd iTunes titling problem. Can you help? dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2017-02-15 10:35 +1300
    Re: Odd iTunes titling problem. Can you help? Robert Peirce <bob@peirce-family.com> - 2017-02-14 18:42 -0500
    Re: Odd iTunes titling problem. Can you help? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2017-02-16 11:23 +0000

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