When I put a song onto my iPod which is on several albums, is it possible to enter all of the albums it appears on- for example, Civil War by Guns N' Roses appears on Use Your Illusion II and Greatest Hits- is there any way I can enter both albums for this song and be able to select the song from 2 different album lists?

I'd imagine you should be able to do that through playlists although I don't actually have an ipod myself so I don't know how you'd go about it .....

You would have to add it to the library twice or more (in other words have 2 files).

Thanks Sancheez and Dave for the help. I wonder if in the next version of iTunes they'll allow you to enter multiple albums without having to duplicate songs.

I may have misunderstood the question, but if you import an album using iTunes you will have all the tracks in your iTunes library. Now, you can simply select the tracks and choose "new playlist from selection" and you get the whole album as a playlist. But if you've already got a track in your library, you could, I think, make up a playlist using the existing track(s) and the new tracks and give the playlist the name of the new album - and delete the unnecessary copies of the songs you already had.

When you updated your iPod the song(s) would appear in both the playlists even though you only had one copy of each song. But the song would "officially" only be part of one album - I don't think iTunes (or any other software) could dynamically change the name of the album the song comes from to match the playlist.

The OP wants to know if you could put it under 2 album names but only have one song file. Playlists will not solve the problem.

I thought he meant have it as part of two albums - ie if you want to listen to Greatest Hits it will on that album, if you want to listen to Use Your Illusion II it will be on that album too, but you only need to have one copy of the song. And each album will have the correct tracklisting. But as I said I probably misunderstood the question.
Last edited by Inkblot : 01-08-2006 at 18:56

I'm not sure if the tagging system for music files allows you to have multiple entries for a particular file as such I don't know if it's an iTunes "issue" or not. I have loads of songs duplicated but I just keep them since a lot of them are slightly different versions etc.