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How to add a track to an album? Not from cloud but from the files already in Apple Music on computer

How to add a track to an Apple Music application album?  Not from cloud-Music but from the files already in application of Apple Music on a computer.


I am attempting to import from a music Compact Disc (CD) (yeah, that's right good ole no license and not geolocatable physical disc) That CD is not registered with whatever database Apple uses to populate the album information kept in the fields of the Apple Music application (e.g. Gracenote) was placed into Music merely as tracks with no album information to group then altogether as an "album".


So I was attempting to change the value of the album field but mistakingly left out Track 1 when I successfully edited during one edit session the album information of Tracks 2-5 therefore creating  an"album"  Now I just wanna correct Music's  album to include the orphan track.


I attempted simply changing Track 1's album field to be exact the same value as that of Tracks 2-5 but nopers, that did not work.



Mac mini, macOS 10.15

Posted on Nov 27, 2020 12:20 PM

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Posted on Nov 27, 2020 12:38 PM

If iTunes or Music show multiple instances of an artist or an album then what generally works is to select all related tracks and use Song 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 or Music 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 the library wanted to keep separate start typing a value and select the autocomplete entry from say Var... to Various Artists. Picking from the autocomplete lists seemed to work when pasting/editing the whole value didn't.



tt2

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Nov 27, 2020 12:38 PM in response to GoWithThrottleUp

If iTunes or Music show multiple instances of an artist or an album then what generally works is to select all related tracks and use Song 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 or Music 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 the library wanted to keep separate start typing a value and select the autocomplete entry from say Var... to Various Artists. Picking from the autocomplete lists seemed to work when pasting/editing the whole value didn't.



tt2

How to add a track to an album? Not from cloud but from the files already in Apple Music on computer

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