Listing music by artist messes up now...

When I view my songs in alphabetical order by artist I use to always quickly be able to find my artists but recently a lot of my music is not organizing by the first letter of the artist but sporadically does it by the beginning of the second word. Here is a picture of what is happening: http://i27.tinypic.com/2cosbac.png
I also have 2 songs that are by the same artist and have the same title (except remix added to the end of one). They are by 'A Fine Frenzy'. One shows up at the top of the artist list and the other one shows up in the F's.... Does anyone have any idea what is wrong?

Check the Sorting tab in the Get Info window. Sort fields tell iTunes how to alphabetize songs; some of them may have gotten filled out.

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You are not alone
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least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears.
- Unsync/delete all music and resync
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4, you can copy the photos from your iPad to your computer : http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4083 . You should also be able to delete them from the iPad as part of the transfer process to your computer, and it's then your choice whether to add them to your sync photo list so as to copy them back to the iPad. Copying them to your computer would allow you to organise them into folders and therefore be able to sync them back into separate albums.
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Do I need additional software to manipulate my tunes in iTunes?
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How can I re arrange the tunes so that they appear only under one artist?
How do I make my "lost" artists tunes appear?
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I am not really following what the problem is here. Artists are listed in the Artist field. I guess you could stick individual artists in a band in a field such as comments, but then you would have to include searching the comments field in your search. In which fields are these names located?
How are you making these playlists? Are these smart playlists or are you just dragging tracks to a playlist?
Are you doing this search with Finder's find or with iTunes' search?
If I knew exactly what it was you were trying to do I could tell you if you need addditional software. In reality though there isn't "additional software" for iTunes. There's Applescript plugins but I don't see how the ones with which I am familiar would have anything to do with searching for artist names.
How can I re arrange the tunes so that they appear only under one artist?
Steve MacGuire aka turingtest2 - iTunes & iPod Hints & Tips - Grouping Tracks Into Albums - http://www.samsoft.org.uk/iTunes/grouping.asp (older post on Apple Discussions http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=9910895)
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Artist fields?
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artist(s) doing the song.
There is the Album Artist field. This is for
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A few weeks ago, I loaded some new songs into my itunes library, and tried to sync my iPod to accquire them onto it. For some reason, when I went to check if they were there, the artist was listed 5 times for no apparent reason. This hadn't happened before adding these new tracks, nor has it happened to any other artist since. Under each listing of the artist are all the albums and songs I have by them, so as I said, it is not a tagging problem. I posted this about a month back on this board when it happened, and got 2 common responses. 1 was "It's a tagging problem"...no, it's not. The other was people who were having the same problem, so at least then I knew it wasn't my specific iPod or iTunes with the problem. If anyone has any comments or solutions to this problem, feel free to post them and hopefully this can get figured out. Thanks in advance to everyone.

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