Hi Donna,
In addition to Tim's very complete answer, you can also use your (column)
browser to locate compilations. In the "View" menu on the iTunes menu bar, the
"Column Browser" sub-menu lets you check categories to view (e.g. "Artists",
"Albums", "Composers", etc.), position ("On top" or "On left"), and you can
also check (or not) entries for "Group Compilations" and "Use Album Artist".
If you check (VO-Space) "Group Compilations", then if you toggle on the column
browser with Command-B, and browse under the "Artists" list, the first entry
will be "Compilations". Selecting this entry will show you all tracks
associated with "Compilations", which are basically albums that cannot be
associated with a single artist (e.g. "Cinema Classics of 2004"). If you
further tab to the "Albums" section of the browser, you'll find a list of
albums that are classified as compilations. Select that album, and then
navigate to the sources table. Do a Command-A to select all and then delete.
Toggle off the column browser again with Command-B. Incidentally, I keep my
column browser position set to "On top" -- the way this was set up for numerous
previous versions of iTunes before they decided to make this a "column"
browser. I also keep my iTunes libraries set to display in list view
(Command-3). These are no longer the default settings for iTunes.
The other alternative you have is to select all the tracks in your compilation
and then, instead of deleting, use Command-I ("Get Info") and enter a value in
the "Album Artist" field. Then, for your column browser sub-menu, check the
option for "Use Album Artist". That will preserve artist information for the
individual tracks, but allow you to search for this album as though it were a
work by your designated album artist.
HTH. Cheers,
Esther
On Feb 27, 2011, at 08:22, Tim Kilburn wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 1. Go to Music in your Sources List.
> 2. Interact With the Music Table.
> 3. Navigate to the Album column.
> 4. Press VO-shift-back slash to sort by Album.
> 5. Navigate to the first item in that album.
> 6. Hold down your sift key as you arrow through the rest of the album.
> 7. Press the Delete key to remove it.
> 8. You can press "m" to tell iTunes to Move the items to the Trash when the
> dialog appears.
>
> Note: If the Album column is not displaying, press cmd-j to bring up the
> View Options and check the Album column.
>
> Thanks.
>
> On 2011-02-27, at 11:03 AM, Donna Goodin wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I have a CD in my itunes library that is a compilation of songs from
>> different artist. I'd like to remove it. Does anyone know if there's some
>> way to just remove the whole album, rather than hunting out each of the
>> different artist and deleting individual tracks? As always, any help is
>> much appreciated.
>> Best,
>> Donna
>>
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