First of all, you should check each cd before you let it be imported. It's 
possible for iTunes to identify a cd incorrectly and also, the database may 
come up with several possibilitiies from which you have to choose.

If you know that your cd is being misidentified, you can use cmd-i on all the 
tracks together and enter the correct information for the album manually before 
importing and also can do each of the tracks individually for a cd. Or you 
could wait until you have imported the cd and then select all the tracks to put 
the album information in. But if you wait until all the hundreds of cds have 
been imported, it will be a much more difficult job.

I understand the problem somewhat as I have a slightly different but related 
one. I unfortunately didn't have the foresight to know that someday iTunes 
would come along. So several years before iTunes became accessible, before I 
even owned a Mac, I ripped all my cds and then gave the cds away to friends. 
That was okay except that iTunes, when I began using it, was not able to 
identify a lot of my ripped material correctly; apparently the id tag 
information was done differently. So to this day I don't have a lot of my music 
in iTunes because it would be too scrambled up and I don't have the time to 
spend straightening it out. Since you have original cds, as long as you proceed 
with your importing systematically, I would think you shouldn't have such a 
drastic problem. This is as much as i know and probably others on list will 
have more detailed advice. I would just say: Proceed with caution as you import 
each cd.


Hth.

-- 
Cheryl

May the words of my mouth
and the meditation of my heart
be acceptable to You, Lord,
my rock and my Redeemer.
(Psalm 19:14 HCSB)



On Nov 23, 2012, at 3:31 PM, Agent086b <agent0...@bigpond.com> wrote:

> Hello all, I am importing hundreds of CDs in to iTunes. I am finding that 
> some CDs are imported track by track and not as a complete album. I have 
> selected the tracks to an album and gone in to the info section but could not 
> find any to check to be part of a compilation or similar. 
> Can anybody help here?
> Thanks as always.
> Max.
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