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Select the tracks and uncheck the Compilation box.  You'll have to this per track as the option doesn't show up in the Info window with multiple selection.

Genius was off for me by default, I'm sure there's a way to turn it off.

I haven't noticed any difference in it yet.

I haven't seen much need for Genius yet, usually just listen to my music on shuffle.

StaticAge wrote:

First of all, the "genius" crap totally blows- its just an obvious gimmick to get people to have to go to their store to buy crap. I hide it as best as I can, but you know, if you are managing some of your music, just a misplaced click makes iTunes start the stupid spinning ball to hook up to the store online THAT I DIDNT WANT TO GO TO IN THE FIRST PLACE!

Not sure exactly what you're talking about here.  If you're referring to the arrow links that take you to the store, you can hide them with the Terminal command

defaults write com.apple.iTunes show-store-arrow-links -bool FALSE

Or, far more usefully, you can make it so that by default they browse to the artist/album in your own library:

defaults write com.apple.iTunes invertStoreLinks -bool TRUE

Fracai wrote:

Select the tracks and uncheck the Compilation box.  You'll have to this per track as the option doesn't show up in the Info window with multiple selection.

You can still do it with a batch of tracks.  The Multiple Item Information window in iTunes 8 has tabs; the Part of a Compilation checkbox is under the Options tab.

Genius has helped me find tunes that I totally forgot about which is easy in a 33,000 song library

I like Genius quite a lot. No doubt, the side bar boarders on awful, but the fact that I can create a randomized playlist, that doesn't require me to persistently hit "next track," is awesome.

But that new grid view needs to die. It works for iPhoto, but it I fail to see its usefulness for music.

Donkey Butter wrote:

I hate iTunes because it can't seem to understand that all the songs from an album should be in the album.

I guess it's easier to just show you.

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see all the duplicate album covers. I can't get them to all be in one album. it's like itunes just decides that some of the songs even though they have the same name, same import date, all numbered correctly and told that they are part of a compilation, aren't part of the same album.

What do the tracks have for Album Artist?  They should all be blank, or the same (something like "Various Artists" or "Rolling Stone").  It looks like you may have each track's Album Artist set to be the same as its artist, which causes them to be treated as separate albums.

You can.  There are 3 search keys here:
1) Artist
2) Album Artist
3) Album

I've not ever figured out what Album Artist is for, but it sounds like you're using it in place of the other two.  You can have different artists on the same album.

I just turn Genius off and everything is the same as previous versions.

ScifiterX wrote:

Here is an example of where Artist & Album Artist make sense. An Aerosmith album with 16 songs but one is Walk This Way.

Or you could look at it this way:

' You can identify the individual artists on a tribute album in the Artist field, and then type “various” in the Album Artist field. ' (taken from iTunes Help)

SH

I do wish they'd allow for multiple genre tags. Some cross genre songs deserve it and while soundtrack is accurate enough, it's kind of a piss poor excuse for a genre much of the time.

I wish they still gave the option to disable the annoying arrows without having to go into the terminal. All I want is something to organize my music into playlists and sync with my iPod. I couldn't care less about the rest of it. Then again, despite having my career deeply entrenched in technology, I've never been interested in things like social networking, fancy phones, or "digital hub" sort of things.