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    From D.M. Procida@21:1/5 to All on Wed Sep 4 18:55:29 2024
    I imported an album (Melody Maker's Rebellious Jukebox compilation from 1993, and I can still remember listening to it the day it arrived in the post).

    In Music on my Macintosh, it shows up as an album, under Compilations, with
    all the songs labelled and in the correct order.

    On my phone, it lists each song separately (apparently each one in its own album, all called "Melody Maker Rebellious Jukebox"). It doesn't seem to understand that it is one albun - though weirdly, each track appears to have a correct number against it, even if it is the only one in it.

    Any ideas?

    Daniele

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  • From John@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Wed Sep 4 21:07:26 2024
    On 4 Sep 2024 18:55:29 GMT, D.M. Procida
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    I imported an album (Melody Maker's Rebellious Jukebox compilation from 1993, >and I can still remember listening to it the day it arrived in the post).

    In Music on my Macintosh, it shows up as an album, under Compilations, with >all the songs labelled and in the correct order.

    On my phone, it lists each song separately (apparently each one in its own >album, all called "Melody Maker Rebellious Jukebox"). It doesn't seem to >understand that it is one albun - though weirdly, each track appears to have a >correct number against it, even if it is the only one in it.

    Any ideas?

    Could you *move* all of the songs, apart from song 01, into the
    folder song 01 is in then bin all of the other, now empty, folders?

    Sorry, I don't have and never have had nor will have a "smart" phone
    so I don't know how restrictive the OS is. I do know that doing the
    above on an iPad would be ....... tiresome. :)

    J.


    Daniele

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  • From Andy H@21:1/5 to David Kennedy on Tue Sep 10 08:55:22 2024
    On 05/09/2024 09:48:39, David Kennedy wrote:
    On 04/09/2024 19:55, D.M. Procida wrote:
    I imported an album (Melody Maker's Rebellious Jukebox compilation
    from 1993,
    and I can still remember listening to it the day it arrived in the post).

    In Music on my Macintosh, it shows up as an album, under Compilations,
    with
    all the songs labelled and in the correct order.

    On my phone, it lists each song separately (apparently each one in its
    own
    album, all called "Melody Maker Rebellious Jukebox"). It doesn't seem to
    understand that it is one albun - though weirdly, each track appears
    to have a
    correct number against it, even if it is the only one in it.

    Any ideas?

    Daniele

    Suck it up?

    I've got the same with two compilations which were perfectly fine while
    we still had iTunes but after transitioning to Music now display the
    same behaviour.

    I've been getting split albums forever, even back to iTunes days.

    My solution was to not use the Apple album finder. I just make a
    playlist for each of them myself.

    Albums can also get easily split when there are various collaborations,
    with multiple artists appearing on different tracks. It seems to get
    easily confused by those, and creates separate albums for them.

    --
    Andy H

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  • From Jaimie Vandenbergh@21:1/5 to All on Tue Sep 10 10:12:06 2024
    On 10 Sep 2024 at 08:55:22 BST, "Andy H" <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    On 05/09/2024 09:48:39, David Kennedy wrote:
    On 04/09/2024 19:55, D.M. Procida wrote:
    I imported an album (Melody Maker's Rebellious Jukebox compilation
    from 1993,
    and I can still remember listening to it the day it arrived in the post). >>>
    In Music on my Macintosh, it shows up as an album, under Compilations,
    with
    all the songs labelled and in the correct order.

    On my phone, it lists each song separately (apparently each one in its
    own
    album, all called "Melody Maker Rebellious Jukebox"). It doesn't seem to >>> understand that it is one albun - though weirdly, each track appears
    to have a
    correct number against it, even if it is the only one in it.

    Any ideas?

    Daniele

    Suck it up?

    I've got the same with two compilations which were perfectly fine while
    we still had iTunes but after transitioning to Music now display the
    same behaviour.

    I've been getting split albums forever, even back to iTunes days.

    My solution was to not use the Apple album finder. I just make a
    playlist for each of them myself.

    Albums can also get easily split when there are various collaborations,
    with multiple artists appearing on different tracks. It seems to get
    easily confused by those, and creates separate albums for them.

    In ye olde iTunes days it was generally fixable by selecting them all
    and editing their Album Artist to be the same (I had a lot of albums by
    that famous popular beat combo "Various"). I've barely touched Apple
    Music except when the phone or mac auto-launches it against my will. My
    rare forays into it show it to be excruciatingly badly designed.

    Cheers - Jaimie
    --
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    substantive to bring to the discussion, kindly do.
    Otherwise, isn't there an eternal flamefest that would
    peter out if you won't keep feeding it?
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