Wow, Esther, as always you are a wealth of information! thanks for your very
detailed post, sounds like I need to spend more time getting familiar with the
column browser, - I admit I haven't played around with it much. It sounds
though like it offers many interesting options.
Best,
Donna
On Feb 27, 2011, at 2:48 PM, Esther wrote:
> 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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