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My iTunes is grouping songs with the same artis...

Can anyone tell me how to fix this? I put a lot of effort into organizing my collection and I hate seeing 15 "Lil Wayne" sections in my artist listing or Paul McCartney's complete discography right next to Paul McCartney with 1 song. I've tried editing all the files together, intentionally misspelling the name and then spelling it right again but it doesn't work and that use to work well but it doesn't seem to work anymore.

If iTunes shows multiple instances of an artist or an album then what generally works is to select all related tracks and use Get Info to add say a trailing X to each of the fields that the tracks should have in common:

• For an album; Album, Album Artist, and Artist (if artist is the same for all tracks) *
• For an artist; Album Artist (and Artist unless there are guest/featured artists listed which should not be changed)

Apply the change which merges things together, then remove the excess characters. Occasionally it may help to close and reopen iTunes between the two renaming operations. Part of a compilation should also be set consistently.

* If tracks are to be synced to a non-iOS device there should be a common Artist and/or the album should be set as a Compilation.

Use the songs view and display the fields Album, Sort Album, Album Artist, Sort Album Artist, Artist and Sort Artist side by side so you see whether or not it is appropriate to edit Artist and if sort values could be causing any further problems. See Grouping tracks into albums for more help if required.

One further tip for really stubborn duplicates. At one point I had three lots of Various Artists in the artists view of my iTunes Match library that wouldn't respond to the usual trailing X treatment. What I found worked was to add the trailing X to start with, but then with each group that iTunes wanted to keep separate start typing a value and let iTunes autocomplete from Var... to Various Artists. Picking from the autocomplete lists seemed to work when pasting/editing the whole value didn't.

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There seems to be a somewhat higher percentage of success putting an X in everything. Closing the program and then reopening it and entering the proper info. iTunes use to do this but now it seems worse than ever, I've never had to go through such length to get this done. It feels ridiculous, when is Apple going to fix this?

I wish I knew.

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The new version of ITunes I just upgraded to has different context menus for different

songs.

One has the familiar "Get Info", and then others have "Song Info". What the ****?

This smacks of somebody's "bright idea" that should have been caught and dismissed as an unnecessary and confusing change rather than a positive one. I've seen at least nine alternative forms of Get Info in this version, really irritating if you're scanning for the G of Get info in the context menu. Ctrl+I or CMD+I work in each case so it may be easier to switch to the keyboard shortcut.

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最後更新：2017-10-22 11:30:47

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