Just do this: (assuming you've got the latest version of iTunes, 7.6 as of
writing)

- Select all the songs in your album that's in the Compilations folder
- If it asks you whether you want to edit multiple items, just hit yes
- Right click, select Get Info
- Click on the info Tab in the window that opens
- There should be a drop down box in this window that reads "Compilation".
Make sure that drop down box is switched to "No".
- Make sure that the "Album Artist" text box in this window reads the artist
you want (e.g. "Queen," and not "Various Artists" or something else)
- Hit OK. If you have your library set up to auto-arrange itself in iTunes
it'll move the music to the proper artist's folder.


On 4/13/08 12:12 AM, in article
B2D0CE1D-F342-40E8-9E7A-C46067EA068E@microsoft.com, "witsend"
<witsend@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> Here is my issue...
>
> Each song I import from my cd's is put into its respective folder in itunes.
> That folder is usually the album name of the cd I just imported. It can be
> very frustrating importing greatest hits cd's as itunes likes to sometimes
> create a folder called "compilations " for these as opposed to the name of
> the artist. So you could, for example, have Queens Greatest Hits in the
> compilations folder and Classic Queen in the Queen folder. Both are "hits"
> albums by the same artist but itunes isn't recognizing this fact...love my
> ipod...hate itunes and its over indulgent logic. So now when I move the
> folder into its proper location (the Queen folder in the above example),
> itunes loses track of it and it can't be played from the library. It shows
> the dreaded exclamation mark beside the missing songs. I then have to
> manually locate each song, one at a time. My question is how do I make
> itunes see the new location without doing it one song at a time? Is there a
> batch method of doing this?