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SATCHMO · 08-11-2010, 08:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Nine Black Poppies

Failing that ^, I would also make sure the "Album Artist" field is blank both in the "Info" tab and "Sorting" tab of the tags for all the songs. It's been my experience that sometimes that creates a situation like what you're talking about.

That may be it right there.

SATCHMO · 08-11-2010, 09:02 PM

I don't know. Nothing I try seems to work and none of the changes that I make seem to affect anything. Every time I go back into the "get info" pane the changes I made previously seem to have been reset to default, like the "part of a compilation" option.

**Janszoon** · 08-11-2010, 09:17 PM

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Originally Posted by SATCHMO

There is no option for that that I can see under my itunes preferences.

What version of iTunes do you have?

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Originally Posted by SATCHMO

I don't know. Nothing I try seems to work and none of the changes that I make seem to affect anything. Every time I go back into the "get info" pane the changes I made previously seem to have been reset to default, like the "part of a compilation" option.

When you select "Yes" from Part of a Compilation dropdown are you also making sure that the checkbox to the left is checked before clicking "OK"?

SATCHMO · 08-11-2010, 09:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Janszoon

What version of iTunes do you have?

When you select "Yes" from Part of a Compilation dropdown are you also making sure that the checkbox to the left is checked before clicking "OK"?

Yes, and All of my software is up to date as of 2 days ago. I'm running Snow Leopard

**Janszoon** · 08-11-2010, 09:28 PM

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Originally Posted by SATCHMO

Yes, and All of my software is up to date as of 2 days ago. I'm running Snow Leopard

So you have iTunes 9 then? Looks like they moved "Group compilations" in that version. It's now found here:

SATCHMO · 08-11-2010, 09:29 PM

What's happening, i think, is that it's not allowing all the tracks to be compiled together because there is too much variance in general track info because of the dumbass who uploaded it. And I really don't feel like going through and painstakingly dealing with the track info of 40 individual tracks, and that's just on compilation. This is the one and only thing i hate about itunes.

SATCHMO · 08-11-2010, 09:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Janszoon

So you have iTunes 9 then? Looks like they moved "Group compilations" in that version. It's now found here:

That option is inhibited in my drop down menu

**Janszoon** · 08-11-2010, 09:32 PM

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Originally Posted by SATCHMO

What's happening, i think, is that it's not allowing all the tracks to be compiled together because there is too much variance in general track info because of the dumbass who uploaded it. And I really don't feel like going through and painstakingly dealing with the track info of 40 individual tracks, and that's just on compilation. This is the one and only thing i hate about itunes.

There's a lot of that stuff that you can can do as a group to save time. For example the pain in the ass "Album Artist" issue: Just select all the tracks, get info, click the checkbox next to "Album Artist" and make sure the text field is empty. When you click "OK" this will clear the info from the "Album Artist" field of every track.

SATCHMO · 08-11-2010, 09:33 PM

The "group compilations" option Had no effect.

SATCHMO · 08-11-2010, 09:34 PM

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Originally Posted by janszoon

there's a lot of that stuff that you can can do as a group to save time. For example the pain in the ass "album artist" issue: Just select all the tracks, get info, click the checkbox next to "album artist" and make sure the text field is empty. When you click "ok" this will clear the info from the "album artist" field of every track.

Bingo!

08-11-2010, 09:02 PM	#12 (permalink)
SATCHMO Al Dente Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Texas Posts: 4,708	I don't know. Nothing I try seems to work and none of the changes that I make seem to affect anything. Every time I go back into the "get info" pane the changes I made previously seem to have been reset to default, like the "part of a compilation" option.

08-11-2010, 09:29 PM	#16 (permalink)
SATCHMO Al Dente Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Texas Posts: 4,708	What's happening, i think, is that it's not allowing all the tracks to be compiled together because there is too much variance in general track info because of the dumbass who uploaded it. And I really don't feel like going through and painstakingly dealing with the track info of 40 individual tracks, and that's just on compilation. This is the one and only thing i hate about itunes.

08-11-2010, 09:33 PM	#19 (permalink)
SATCHMO Al Dente Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Texas Posts: 4,708	The "group compilations" option Had no effect.