Hi Denise and Richard, There's an easier way to handle this issue that does not involve losing any of the existing metadata about the actual artists on a given track. Back in ITunes 7, Apple introduced an extra field called "Album Artist" to handle this situation. In iTunes, select all the tracks in the album, which would include tracks by both James Taylor and also James Taylor & Carole King in the example that Richard gave. Do a "Get Info" with the appropriate short cut keys (Command-I on the Mac, or Control-I in Windows). Then enter the main artist's name in the "Album Artist" text field (e.g., "James Taylor" in the example Richard gave). iTunes will treat the value entered into the "Album Artist" field as the artist's name for the purposes of organization and syncing, but will retain all the individual track artist information.
HTH. Cheers, Esther On Sep 18, 1:27 pm, denise avant <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes it does > This is exactly what i am talking about > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Sep 18, 2012, at 6:24 PM, Richard Turner <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hi, > > iTunes separates everything by the artist, so if you have an album by James > > Taylor, but one of the songs lists the artist as James Taylor and Carole > > King, that song will show up as a separate album. > > What I do, is go through each song and make sure that the artist only has > > one name in it. > > If I want to keep track of the other name or names, I'll put them in the > > comments. > > It can be a pain especially with albums where there are multiple songs with > > two or more artists. > > > I hope that helps. > > > Richard > > > (Sent from Richard's iPhone) > > > On Sep 18, 2012, at 3:57 PM, denise avant <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> Hello all, > >> I need to clarify an itunes issue. I have an album and when I look under > >> the music library, all of the tracks by this artist, including the ones > >> featuring another artist on that album are there. however, when I go to > >> sync my iphone music library, the album seems to be divided between the > >> artist and the featured artist. In other words, I am having to check the > >> check box twice in order to get the entire album over to the iphone or > >> ipad. can anyone tell me if there is another way to do this? thanks. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
