The same artist is shown several times in the library - how to fix this?

Hey everybody,

I just imported some of my old songs in the iTunes library, which is organized by the artists in alphabetical order.

But now, there is an artist who appears twice in the library. I checked the tags several times. It is the same for each album.

When I'm traveling finder and check records to iTunes there is only one folder with the name of artists, containing all the music.

So, how can it be? I have really no idea what's wrong right now.

Thank you for your support in advance.

The key field is the artist (obviously), but you can also check the Album artist field, which is used for sorting.  Looks like you are using the sight of artists to show your iTunes library, but it is more useful to use the sight of songs (simple list with columns) for troubleshooting this problem.  If the Album artist column is not a visible column in the view of songs , make it visible (line header right click to show/hide columns) and put it next to the column of the artist (drag to move left/right steering column).

To ensure that all references to the artist and Album are the same, copy the entry that you want to use for this artists songs.  In a list of songs, select all songs from this artist.  Do a Get Info ( read the informationright click) on the selection.  In the window information from several element, Paste the name of the artist in the fields of the artist and the artist of the Album .  Check the view of the artists .

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