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Thanks so much, Bill, I appreciate the info and the links.

Martin

On Sep 12, 2010, at 7:25 AM, Bill Boulware wrote:

> "A *compilation album* is an album <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Album> (
> music <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music> or
> spoken-word<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoken-word>)
> featuring tracks from either a single or multiple recording
> artists<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recording_artists>,
> often culled from a variety of sources (such as studio
> albums<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studio_albums>,
> live albums <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_album>,
> singles<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singles_%28music%29>,
> demos <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demo_%28music%29> and
> outtakes<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outtake>.)
> The tracks are usually collected according to a common characteristic, such
> as popularity, genre, source or subject matter. "
>
> Basically it is a "best of" album, like "Best of the 80s" where you have say
> 12-15 tracks from different artists that have already appeared on other
> albums but are compiled on a new album - typically if you just add them to
> iTunes and let it sort / albumize them they will be sorted by the artist
> then album & not be on a single compiled album so you have to manually
> override iTunes to tell it that those tracks are a compilation album &
> should be sorted as such.
>
> On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 07:01, Martin Rice <martinrice1@mac.com> wrote:
>
> > I've been wondering for quite a while what a "compilation" really is in
> > iTunes. Can anyone tell me?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Martin
> >
> > On Sep 11, 2010, at 6:40 PM, Bill Boulware wrote:
> >
> > > Select them all > right click > get Info > check "Part of a compilation"
> > >
> > > On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 17:28, Suzanne Freilinger
> > > <SFreilinger@comcast.net>wrote:
> > >
> > > > How do you organize your albums in iTunes so that albums that are
> > > > compilations of different artists do not show up as separate albums?
> > Trying
> > > > to put some Christmas music on my nephews soon to be 3G and when you
> > hold
> > > > the phone in landscape mode to see all the album covers this keeps
> > happening
> > > > and is a pain!
> > > >
> > > > Suzy

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