question about grouping songs from a cast recording together on iPhone

[musicalphd]

Posted: 10/1/15 at 7:12pm

Hi!

I have a random question.  How can I get songs from cast recordings grouped together on my  iPhone/iTunes?  I managed to get songs from one album grouped together, but I had to go to iTunes and manually select each song to be listed as an album.  Please let me know if any of you have an easier way of doing this.

 

Thanks! :)

[dramamama611]

Posted: 10/1/15 at 7:13pm

Make a playlist?

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 10/1/15 at 7:27pm

iTunes can be very fussy sometimes. It's hard to know exactly what the problem is without more information. Provided each song has the same album title the songs should group together automatically. They'll also group together if you mark each song as part of a compilation though when I do that the album appears on my iPhone only under the compilation section and doesn't display in the list of albums which wasn't a problem prior to the release of the updated music app.

[sephyr]

Posted: 10/1/15 at 7:36pm

Instead of having specific artists for a show, I'll usually make the album have one artist (I.e. Cast of A Chorus Line). Makes it easier to find.

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 10/1/15 at 7:40pm

I do that too! Recently I've been thinking about going back and putting in the name of the vocalists but I have so many albums it would take a very long time. Plus what would I put for demos and stuff that I don't have names of the singers for? I keep going back and forth. I don't know what to do.

[dissimilate]

Posted: 10/1/15 at 8:20pm

I'm very surprised that compilations don't show up in albums in the new Music app, because mine do.

 

This is what I do for each album:

1. Mark as a compilation

2. Put under one album name

3. Under "album artist", put "Various Artists".

 

The reason for the 3rd step is because iTunes sorts by album artist first, then album. If the song doesn't have an album artist, it pulls the normal "artist" tag. Which is why even if you mark something as a compilation, it doesn't always sort correctly.

 

Hope his helps!

[darquegk]

Posted: 10/1/15 at 8:22pm

I tag Album Artist as the composer and lyricist, and Artist as the performers on each track.

[pc1145N2]

Posted: 10/1/15 at 8:46pm

I just create a playlist. I don't have to re-tag anything. Seems simpler to me.

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 10/1/15 at 8:49pm

Unless you're like me and have to create a playlist for over 300 albums. No thanks.

[asmith0307]

Posted: 10/1/15 at 8:49pm

Check the album artist and the album title itself. Some times half of my songs will have (we'll use Once as an example) Once: A New Musical, while the others will have Once - A New Musical. The little punctuation difference split the album in half for me. 

[gypsy101]

Posted: 10/1/15 at 9:10pm

iTunes has become annoying within the last few years, making it difficult to group albums (specifically soundtracks and cast recordings). For musicals, I list the composer's name as the artist, because listing each configuration of artists on cast recordings got to be a mess and a headache. For film soundtracks I usually list each recording artist and list the director of the film as the album artist.