They seem to know what the issue is and that it does exist. engineering has been able to re-create the issue. After hours and hours (and to date 4 months), I have gotten to the executive team support.
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Mike, I purchased a new MacBook Pro in January. Picking from the autocomplete lists seemed to work when pasting/editing the whole value didn't. What I found worked was to add the trailing X to start with, but then with each group that iTunes wanted to keep separate start typing a value and let iTunes autocomplete from say Var. At one point I had three lots of Various Artists in the artists view of my iTunes Match library that wouldn't respond to the usual trailing X treatment. One further tip for really stubborn duplicates. See Grouping tracks into albums for more help if required. Use the songs view and display the fields Album, Sort Album, Album Artist, Sort Album Artist, Artist and Sort Artist side by side so you see whether or not it is appropriate to edit Artist and if sort values could be causing any further problems. * If tracks are to be synced to a non-iOS device there should be a common Artist and/or the album should be set as a Compilation. Part of a compilation should also be set consistently. Occasionally it may help to close and reopen iTunes between the two renaming operations. For an artist Album Artist (and Artist unless there are guest/featured artists listed which should not be changed)Īpply the change which merges things together, then remove the excess characters.For an album Album, Album Artist, and Artist (if artist is the same for all tracks) *.If iTunes (same for Music) shows multiple instances of an artist or an album then what generally works is to select all related tracks and use Get Info to add say a trailing X to each of the fields that the tracks should have in common: