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Resolved Question

Lots of single songs, want to know how combine them

Sep 15, 2014 8:58PM PDT

Now I have my new lap top and redone my itunes. I notice I have lots of single songs, rather than playing them individually I would like to put them under one cover like an Album of all my favorites, rather than having them spread all over my itunes.

Could someone kindly advise me how to go about doing this, I would be very grateful.

Many thanks

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make a playlist and put them in there.
Sep 15, 2014 9:48PM PDT

Then they would all be in the same place.

Select them all, hit play and iTunes will go through the whole list for you.

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Thanks
Sep 16, 2014 1:45AM PDT

Thanks that worked really well, now to upload my millions of Barry Manilow CDs (my wifes no mine).

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Sep 16, 2014 4:57AM PDT

Actually that didint work, all that did was put them into a library I created Vic'sMusic, what I want them is to be like an album of the single songs I have.

Any ideas.

Thanks

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Yes, that's exactly what it did, but,
Sep 16, 2014 9:07AM PDT

aren't most albums a collection of single songs. Happy

The only way you are going to make that happen is outside of iTunes with a piece of Audio editing software. Audacity springs to mind, probably because it is free.

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Sep 16, 2014 6:32PM PDT

I looked at Audacity - looks very complex for a non complex person.

Wonder if the sigle songs could be burned to a cd, the uploaded back to itunes as an album ?

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Re: iTunes
Sep 16, 2014 6:54PM PDT

As far as I know, it helps to use an mp3-editor (lots of those to find) to change the album name inside the file. Then iTunes should pick it up and group those songs into an album when importing them.

Worth a try.

Kees

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I wonder what would happen if,
Sep 16, 2014 9:33PM PDT

you selected a track in iTunes, select Get Info and hit the Info tab.
Now enter the name of a fictional album, Best of Stattovic, for example.
Repeat that for a few tracks, just as a test, and see how iTunes handles them.

It will still group them together as a collection of single tracks, as it does all albums, but not as a single huge MP3 file.


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