Managing iTunes tracks where more than one artist has the same name
Anyone know of a clean way to deal with the following situation?
I have two CD's where the artist has the same name, but they are actually different people.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Martin_%28American_musician%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Martin_%28Canadian_musician%29
Right now, they are grouped together, and it's not a big deal, but I would like to avoid having to put in "american" and "canadian" in the actual artist field.
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this might not do the trick,
this might do the trick:
bring up the track info (Get Info)
Normally you add info to the Summary tab and this is what appears
Go to the Sorting tab, and put in the Sort Name/Sort Artist/Sort Album/etc
You should be able to put in whatever you want here, eg. "Jeff Martin (Canadian)" vs "Jeff Martin (American)"
and itunes/ipod should group them as two distinct entries, but both called "Jeff Martin"
so for the two groups of songs, you want
Artist = Jeff Martin
Sort Artist = Jeff Martin (Canadian)
Artist = Jeff Martin
Sort Artist = Jeff Martin (American)
i know this because i've had the inverse problem happen, where the same artist was being displayed twice on my ipod, but was showing up as two distinct entries because different songs had different Sort Artists
hopefully that makes sense (and works), let us know if this helps!
That worked perfectly! It's
That worked perfectly! It's funny, I've done what you described as well (somehow iTunes was putting in different Sort artist fields) but never thought that I could use it this way. Unfortunately, the file hierarchy still puts the two albums in the same folder, but that's a small price to pay.
If only iTunes had a built-in database with information about bands and artists, so then you could easily link to other information about the artist. Perhaps in V8 :)
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Andrew