# How to import specific singles?
**URL:** https://discourse.beets.io/t/how-to-import-specific-singles/1369
**Category:** Help
**Created:** [June 30, 2020, 2:37am UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/how-to-import-specific-singles/1369 "2020-06-30T02:37:41Z")
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### Author:  [@nirvdrum](https://discourse.beets.io/u/nirvdrum)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2020, 2:37am UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/how-to-import-specific-singles/1369/1 "2020-06-30T02:37:41Z")
Apologies in advance if this is covered somewhere, but I couldn’t find what I was looking for. I have purchased single songs off digital music stores, so I know exactly what album each song came from. If I do an album search, I can find and match things up, but then I’m missing the other _N - 1_ tracks so that ends up looking weird. If I import as a singleton, however, I can’t seem to get more granular than the recording ID. One track I’m trying to add has over 50 releases associated with it. Is there any way to import a singleton with a release ID? The track release appears to embed disc and track info (e.g., “10e6c1c6-b977-4e26-9de4-bce861530903/disc/1#c19db380-d301-4d59-ab2c-d565f17eef03”) and beets doesn’t seem to handle that.
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### Author:  [@adrian](https://discourse.beets.io/u/adrian)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2020, 11:24am UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/how-to-import-specific-singles/1369/2 "2020-06-30T11:24:32Z")
Hello! If you want to keep track of the album the song is on, then it seems like importing an album (and “missing” the other N-1 tracks) is the way to go. Aside from it looking weird in the importer, is there any particular reason you want to avoid that?
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### Author:  [@nirvdrum](https://discourse.beets.io/u/nirvdrum)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2020, 1:56am UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/how-to-import-specific-singles/1369/3 "2020-07-01T01:56:00Z")
No particular reason. I just thought I was doing something wrong. I guess I also lose the ability to have such imports match the “singleton” path, but I can live with that. Thanks for the reply!