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[nhlducks35]

Is anyone having a problem of iTunes splitting up albums of the same name?

Like this:

Is there any fix?

 

[see5harp]

My only guess is that somewhere you have a rogue tag somewhere. You could have an extra space or capital letter somewhere in the tag...just highlight them all and make sure Artist, Album, and Album Artist are all the same.

 

[Imperial Hot]

It organizes by album artist not artist. Edit the tag info and make sure he Album Artist is the same.

 

[krypt0nian]

Is anyone having a problem of iTunes splitting up albums of the same name?

Like this:

Is there any fix?

Check the Info. You'll find a difference in that one track.

 

[The Real Abed]

I am on Mac. I'm just in Windows 7.

Either way, I think I'll be safe with my 16GB of RAM. Long Live iTunes 11 and my 90 tabs spread over 6 windows of Chrome.

:3

I thought my 22 tabs in one window was a lot.

Is anyone having a problem of iTunes splitting up albums of the same name?

Like this:
http://i.imgur.com/SqW53.png

Is there any fix?

Check your song info. Personal Jesus has one piece of info different from the others.

 

[LCfiner]

While I haven't seen that happen for the first time in itunes 11, this has been an issue for all versions of itunes if the tiniest bit of metadata is different between that one track and the others.

select all, get info and use checkmarks to blank out all miscellaneous tags (including video tags and things like volume levels, etc) then there's the obvious album, artist, genre tags.

it should smush them back together afterward.

also look for empty spaces at the end of some common tags like album, artist, etc.

 

[Dreams-Visions]

I like this new iTunes. Let us celebrate by listening to the best album of all time.

a man with excellent taste. I'll join you.

 

[SictorVullivan]

Just updated. Really like it apart from the fact that the slider which makes the album icons smaller is no longer there. Is it completely gone or has it been relegated to a menu now? Windows 7 by the way.

 

[SnakeXs]

So what are the new iCloud features?

 

[Goldenhen]

There is some album arts are double and how do I emerge them together? All the songs have the same album and artist label.

 

[Kammie]

I like this new iTunes. Let us celebrate by listening to the best album of all time.

You did it wrong. This is iTunes 11, after all!

 

[XANDER CAGE]

You did it wrong. This is iTunes 11, after all!

yeah we wouldn't want to look at album art without arbitrary blur around the edges would we?

really hoping 11.1 fixes that and the artist view stuff. Otherwise I quite like expanded view and whatnot.

 

[Calidor]

probably answered before, but how can I make the iTunes start with Windows 8? I tried scheduling a task but didn't work :/ (it runs on the background)

 

[Shads]

Am I the only one that ever saved a genius playlist????

Click on the arrow button next to the song and select "Create Genius Playlist" to save Genius playlists. There's also a "Start Genius" button but that seems to only queue up the Genius suggestions to Up Next.

 

[Servbot24]

There is some album arts are double and how do I emerge them together? All the songs have the same album and artist label.

Select all the songs, right click > get info, make sure every single tag is the same (except track name and number of course)

 

[Noema]

You did it wrong. This is iTunes 11, after all!

That's so goddammned sexy.

 

[BurnOutBrighter]

Is anyone having a problem of iTunes splitting up albums of the same name?

Like this:

Is there any fix?

Edit them all at once, change the artist name and album name to something random (I just add Xs) then change them back.

 

[giga]

Helvetica everywhere. Needs to come to the rest of OS X.

 

[Kammie]

yeah we wouldn't want to look at album art without arbitrary blur around the edges would we?

I hate it as much as you. The contrast is so low I can barely even make Miles Davis out in that picture.

 

[Lima]

Giga you will get a lot of calls now...

 

[The Real Abed]

Helvetica everywhere. Needs to come to the rest of OS X.

The death of Lucida Grande? No, I don't think I'd mind that. Don't they use Helvetica on iOS now ever since the Retina display came out?

 

[giga]

Giga you will get a lot of calls now...

Damn, thanks for the heads up.

 

[SleazyC]

RAM usage is still terrible. Guess I got my hopes up that they would work on that.

 

[The Real Abed]

Damn, thanks for the heads up.

You took the time to block out the name and the serial number. How did you miss the phone number? lol

 

[giga]

You took the time to block out the name and the serial number. How did you miss the phone number? lol

Long day at work, hah.

 

[GatorBait]

S.C.I.E.N.C.E. by Incubus looks pretty awesome in the expanded album view thingy.

 

[LCfiner]

i think it shows the change in mentality in how a lot of us view these devices as computers first, phones second

 

[T Dollarz]

Loving this. Anyone find a way so if you have a playlist open it won't show the sidebar on the left?

 

[OneEightZero]

I like it, but how can I see my number of plays without having to switch to "songs" (I usually go by "albums")?

I don't think you can.

Though I'm curious why you want to see your number of plays.

 

[LyleLanley]

Is anyone else not getting their podcasts to sync? I have about 8 different podcasts on my iPhone/iPad but only 3 in iTunes.

 

[The Real Abed]

I don't think you can.

Though I'm curious why you want to see your number of plays.

Some of us like to see that stuff. Most of my playlists are completely based around playcounts. Playcounts are the highest priority for me. If a peripheral can't update the playcount when playing music through it, I won't even bother using it.

 

[GatorBait]

You know, one thing I wish MP3 tags had was a specific place to put featured artists in a song.

 

[Buckethead]

Another thing that is annoying: when coverting files it no longer grabs the one you selected.

So you manually have to go through each one to delete the listing of dead files.

 

[Quick]

I was hoping for the ability to use data from the iTunes Store to properly tag music, like how in Windows Media Player.

Not too big a deal.

 

[Ezduo]

I can't figure out how to get it to the old way, where it would break to a new row for each artist while under the albums tab. As it stands now AC/DC goes straight into Aerosmith and it looks a mess.

 

[OneEightZero]

Some of us like to see that stuff. Most of my playlists are completely based around playcounts. Playcounts are the highest priority for me. If a peripheral can't update the playcount when playing music through it, I won't even bother using it.

I understand it being a figure that scratches an itch, but I'm curious if there is a practical use for it beyond seeing the number of times a song is played. What can you do with knowing that you have played "Let It Be" twenty-seven times? What's the difference in knowing you've played it twenty-seven and twenty-eight times?

I think the Songs tab will serve the purpose of actually knowing that information if you do need to know it. Does it need to be known when you're actually playing music? Probably not.

 

[Kammie]

I understand it being a figure that scratches an itch, but I'm curious if there is a practical use for it beyond seeing the number of times a song is played. What can you do with knowing that you have played "Let It Be" twenty-seven times? What's the difference in knowing you've played it twenty-seven and twenty-eight times?

I think the Songs tab will serve the purpose of actually knowing that information if you do need to know it. Does it need to be known when you're actually playing music? Probably not.

I like keeping tab for crazy reasons (I even threw together an Excel file with filters to calculate how much time I've spent listening to crap), but when I listen, I also primarily go by playcounts. I don't like rating music, so I use the playcount as the basis for whether I'll be interested in listening to a song or not. I have so many albums that I lose track of what I have, and can never remember titles.

 

[bonesquad]

I was hoping iTunes 11 would fix my issue with ATH.exe constantly crashing. Nope.

 

[The Real Abed]

I like keeping tab for crazy reasons (I even threw together an Excel file with filters to calculate how much time I've spent listening to crap), but when I listen, I also primarily go by playcounts. I don't like rating music, so I use the playcount as the basis for whether I'll be interested in listening to a song or not. I have so many albums that I lose track of what I have, and can never remember titles.

I use both ratings and playcounts at once. Ratings are just as important to me as playcount.

I was hoping iTunes 11 would fix my issue with ATH.exe constantly crashing. Nope.

If it makes you feel better, it crashes all the goddamn time on OS X too. I wouldn't care since it just restarts, but I hate cleaning up those damn dialogs. (Which I can't turn off because I need them for certain apps.)

 

[OneEightZero]

I like keeping tab for crazy reasons (I even threw together an Excel file with filters to calculate how much time I've spent listening to crap), but when I listen, I also primarily go by playcounts. I don't like rating music, so I use the playcount as the basis for whether I'll be interested in listening to a song or not. I have so many albums that I lose track of what I have, and can never remember titles.

But the rating system is a better option for that. Especially since you have so much good music that you might listen to once or twice that can get buried whenever you sort by play count. And ratings give you the option to push the songs down and listen to them less whenever you tire of them. A high play count can keep an overheard song at the top until you have another song that overtakes it.

It's might be difficult to take three seconds to rate a song whenever you like or start to dislike it, but it gives you more control over what you want to listen to.

 

[sk3]

So is there no way to show the album art on the song view like before? I can't find it. It's the only view that lets you sort by date added, but they reduced its functionality greatly.

Do people sort by things other than date added? Why would you do that? The artist and album views are useless because of this.

 

[XANDER CAGE]

:lol this looks so bad.

Looks nice with solid-background album art, though.

 

[OneEightZero]

So is there no way to show the album art on the song view like before? I can't find it. It's the only view that lets you sort by date added, but they reduced its functionality greatly.

Do people sort by things other than date added? Why would you do that? The artist and album views are useless because of this.

Use a Smart Playlist.

 

[BootlegSnackz]

looks like Zune software


I like it

wonder if the way they manage and transfer music will not be shitty anymore. probably shouldn't get my hopes up.

 

[TheChewyWaffles]

"play next"...it's about fucking time, Apple. Now you just need to implement this very basic feature in iOS. It's asinine that I can't make an on-the-fly playlist by browsing music in the Music application.

 

[surly]

probably answered before, but how can I make the iTunes start with Windows 8? I tried scheduling a task but didn't work :/ (it runs on the background)

Create a shortcut to it and put it in this folder: -

C:\Users\YourUserName\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup

 

[TheChewyWaffles]

How do I play the music on the airport express? I remember it being very easy on 10.

 

[J@hranimo]

This update is awesome. Now I can fully look at all of my genres and organize my music much better!

 

[BurnOutBrighter]

"play next"...it's about fucking time, Apple. Now you just need to implement this very basic feature in iOS. It's asinine that I can't make an on-the-fly playlist by browsing music in the Music application.

Yeah. Apple playing catch up again. I could queue something up in Winamp ten years ago with a middle click.

 

[giga]

How do I play the music on the airport express? I remember it being very easy on 10.