Album category

Somehow, my "albums" column in itunes has permanently become "album by artist" and nothing I do can change it back to the "albums" column. I click on "albums" and simply turns into "album by artist." This is incredibly inconvenient - I'm gonna have to create a playlist for every album I want to listen to in its original order. What do I do?

Right click on the Albums and select edit.
On the right panel change the Album category for this Album to None, it will remove the album from that category and now you can delete the album category.
-Harshit yadav

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Can't find artist in "artist" category on ipod but the music can be found in "Album" category.

I bought a "Cars" album on itunes 2 months ago and have been trying to sync it to my ipod ever since. It looks as if the sync was successful but when I disconnect the ipod and look for the music under "artist" it isn't there. I have deleted it from the ipod several times and re-synced my entire music library but even though it appeared to be in my ipod music library while still connected to my computer once ejected the music appeared not to be there. Even did a search for "The Cars" on the ipod and no results found.
Then, today, I decided to do a search for one of the songs on the album in my ipod and there it was! I searched for a few more songs and there they were. So I looked in the "all albums" category in the ipod and the album was there. It even says "The Cars" as the artist but if I look under "artist", "The Cars" isn't anywhere to be found. I have tediously looked through the entire "artist" library and "Cars" or "The Cars" is not there. Not under "C" or "T" or anywhere else.
I have never encountered this problem in all of the years that I have owned an iPod and I have owned quite a few. I don't know how to fix this. It is properly catologued in my iTunes library and when the ipod is connected to the computer it is in the "C's" as "The Cars".
Any idea how to fix this?

For the missing Artists on your iPod, make sure their tracks in iTunes are not marked as "Part of a compilation" in iTunes. You can do this by highlighting the track, right->clicking on them and choosing "Get Info" from the shortcut menu. When the window pops up, head over to the Info tab and make sure there is NO tick mark next to this option in the lower right hand corner. Lastly, sync the updated changes to your iPod if necessary.
B-rock

Why did 'Album by Artist' replace my album category?

I don't know why, but this has happened, and I can't get my regular Album category back. It's really annoying me to no end, because I don't have a regular Album category on my iTunes and instead an Album by Artist category. If anyone has any idea of how to fix this, please help me, I'd greatly appreciate it.

Just click on that header again. Each time you click on it is cycles through three different versions. Album, Album by Artist, and Album by Year.
A couple extra clicks on that header should get you back to basic "Album" sorting.
Patrick

Only importing under album category

when i try to import a new cd the album will be recognized in the album category but not under the artist category. It also wont create a folder for the cd? Can anybody help me?

Welcome to the discussions.
Under the "Artist" header on the iPod, music is sorted by Artist, obviously. Therefore, the Album name will not be there. Is this what you are asking?
JC

Entire albums category has been replaced by one song, Please Help.

Like the thread says, my entire albums category has been replaced by one song. The issue has been going on for a few days now and it's extremely irritating. I need some help.

Try:
- Reset the iOS device. Nothing will be lost
Reset iOS device: Hold down the On/Off button and the Home button at the same time for at
least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears.
- Unsync all music and resync
- Reset all settings
Go to Settings > General > Reset and tap Reset All Settings.
All your preferences and settings are reset. Information (such as contacts and calendars) and media (such as songs and videos) aren’t affected.
- Restore from backup. See:
iOS: How to back up
- Restore to factory settings/new iOS device.

Add parent album category

how do you add a parent album caregory

Which Elements version ? If PSE11 or PSE12:
Click on the small triangle just right of the green plus sign on the Local Albums title. That opens the menu. When you have chosen your option, fill the dialog on the right of the screen.

I am not getting album art/thumbnail of album category in MusicLibrary (only getting default mp3 icon / thumbnail.Type == ThumbnailType.Icon) in WP 8.1 ,C#.Not getting ThumbnailType.Image. Plz Help

private async Task GenerateMusicInternalStorageItems(IReadOnlyList<StorageFolder> musicLibrary)
foreach (StorageFolder item in musicLibrary)
try
IReadOnlyList<IStorageItem> folderContents = await item.GetItemsAsync();
if (folderContents.Count > 0)
MusicMyDeviceFolderViewModel objMusicMyDeviceFolderViewModel = new MusicMyDeviceFolderViewModel();
objMusicMyDeviceFolderViewModel.Name = item.Name;
objMusicMyDeviceFolderViewModel.AlbumPath = item.Path;
objMusicMyDeviceFolderViewModel.ItemCount = folderContents.Count;
StorageFile firstFile = folderContents.OfType<StorageFile>().FirstOrDefault();
if (firstFile != null)
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if (thumbnail != null /*&& thumbnail.Type == ThumbnailType.Image*/)
BitmapImage genThumbnail = new BitmapImage();
genThumbnail.SetSource(thumbnail);
objMusicMyDeviceFolderViewModel.Thumbnail = genThumbnail;
albumList.Add(objMusicMyDeviceFolderViewModel);
catch
This is my Code ? now i commented - > thumbnail.Type == ThumbnailType.Image. i am not getting image. default mp3 icon is getting for all album

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foreach (StorageFolder item in musicLibrary)
try
IReadOnlyList<IStorageItem> folderContents = await item.GetItemsAsync();
if (folderContents.Count > 0)
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objMusicMyDeviceFolderViewModel.Name = item.Name;
objMusicMyDeviceFolderViewModel.AlbumPath = item.Path;
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StorageFile firstFile = folderContents.OfType<StorageFile>().FirstOrDefault();
if (firstFile != null)
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using (StorageItemThumbnail thumbnail = await firstFile.GetThumbnailAsync(thumbnailMode, size))
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Albums not showing up in "Artists" category

I have a second generation iPod, a few moths old. I have been having no trouble synching albums to the iPod, until now.
In iTunes, both albums show up fine in both the "Artists" category, and the "Albums" category. But on my iPod, these two albums only show up in the "Albums" category, not the "Artists" category.
All the relevant information is on the albums (ie; Album Artist, Album Name, etc).
I recently did the update to v 4.2.1, and lost all the music. I thought that when I re-synched, that perhaps these two albums would appear in all the relevant categories on the iPod. But they didn't.
Advice, Please?

Seems the problem was with how the artist was named; What iTunes and the iPod wanted was for the artist's name to listed in "Properties" as "Contributing Artist". I did this, and re-synched, and now the albums show up in all categories.
Yay!

When I select photos, the albums are listed. However, the first album is covered over by the category label and cannot be selected. The other albums are visible and can be selected.

When I select Photos, the albums are listed. However, the first album name is covered over by the larger "Album" category label. I cannot select that first album. The other albums listed lower work just fine. Thank you.

Hi,
Try resetting your iPod: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1430.
Hope this helps!
---likeabird---

Creating a folder and adding albums within it

I'm getting close to throwing my computer. I know this is basic stuff, but I am new to Elements 9...
I just returned from the Galapagos and I want to create a file that holds all of my pictures. In that file I want to have folders that correspond with each day and within those folders I want to be able to have individual folders that correspond with each site visited.
For example:
      Galapagos (album)
          - Day 1 (no pictures)
               - Visit 1 (has pictures)
               - Visit 2 (has pictures)
          - Day 2 (no pictures)
                                                       ...and so on.
I've created the album itself, now I can't figure out how to add the additional files/albums etc. I'm probably not using the correct jargon, hopefully what I am looking for will translate though.

I just returned from the Galapagos and I want to create a file that holds all of my pictures.
PSE does not hold or contain your photos. Yes, you have to import them into the PSE Organizer, using the command File->Get Photos..., but your photos are not stored in PSE. PSE is a database that contains pointers to your photos. Your photos remain on your hard disk, wherever they were put when they came out of the camera.
So, you import your photos into PSE, and then go about creating albums and album categories, as explained here. What you are really doing is creating a grouping of pointers to photos, so that you can recall/locate/search for photos easily. With that concept in mind, the album lets you find your photos from Galapagos/Day 1/Visit 2 easily. That's the point. I don't think having an album category with no photos and albums in that category that show your photos is possible in PSE. (By the way, although you use the word folders and the icon for an album looks like a folder, albums work differently than Windows or Mac folders).

Can't create a new album

I have recently bought Photoshop Elements 11 and just started to learn to use the program. When I try to create a new album in Organizer the program crash and stop working. I click the Create new album or album category button + and it crash, when I click the arrow at the right side of the button + and chose "create a new category" it works but when I click the arrow and chose "create a new album" it crashes again. It's also impossible to drag-and-drop a photo to the new category, the photo just refuse to follow. The laptop is new, I installed Microsoft Office just moments before Photoshop Elementals and I'm using Windows 8 and ESET NOD32 Antiirus. Does anyone know what's wrong and if it's me, any program or the laptop?

Do you know who I can ask about it?
I hope, someone who uses FB with iPhoto will look into this. YOu probably have already looked at the help page:
http://help.apple.com/iphoto/iphone/2.0/?handbuch#blnk7d8f75da

Cover flow into album art and how to control iTunes from another app.

Hi all 2 areas of concen, one is coverflow/ album art and the other is itunes controller:
I have searched but cannot find the answer to this:
1) I have some songs with album info already, and I used iTunes to get the album art for coverflow etc. ... some songs from the same album did not have the album category filled in, I go back and fill it in: now how do I get iTunes to recognize the album art so it shows up for the newly corrected songs?
2) In coverflow, iTunes picked the wrong album cover, can I manually fix it/pick the right one?
3) will coverflow only show album art for those albums recognized by iTunes, or will it use album art that I get from other sources and add manually? And what will show up in my ipod?
and lastly
4), is there anyway to control iTunes without switching apps (if I am working in Word or safari and want to skip a song, etc)...is there an overlay controller?
TIA
Gina
new macbook Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Copy the entire folder from one drive to the other, change the path that iTunes is using to access the library.

How do you make it so that the ipod will play all the different artists featured in an album when you click that album to play?

How do you make it so that the ipod will play all the different artists featured in an album when you click that album to play? At the moment, each artist in the album is being separated and I can't play them together. For example, to play the Halo 2 Soundtrack, Hoobastank, Breaking Benjamin, Nile Rodgers, etc. are some of the artists featured. However, in the Albums category, they are each separate choices. I want to play them all together, but can't. Is there a way to do that?

It sounds like the album metadata is incorrect, or differs from song to song in iTunes. Albums with various artists will play properly assuming all the songs are tagged with the same identical album name, as well as the track number. For the Halo 2 Soundtrack, metadata should look like this:
Song: <Song Title>
Artist: <Song Artist>
Album: Halo 2, Vol. 1 (Original Soundtrack)
Genre: Soundtrack
I had a similar problem with my imported Cowboy Bebop albums and the mixture of artists/album names. Once I adjusted the metadata, all of them play in the correct order just by selecting the Album from the available list or in Coverflow.

I recently downloaded an entire album. There is a deluxe edition of the album, but it doesnt say I've downloaded any songs o the deluxe edition, while another album by the same artist counts my purchases to both the regular and deluxe.Purposeful or not?

The album Im having trouble with is The Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd. Is this on purpose, or a glitch?

Yes i've tried all of that. I've turned it all the way on and off and erased all of my music and put it back on and nothing works. And with the breaking up CDs and putting into compilation categories i have already fixed all of that stuff. It's fine it just doesn't show up in the list of artists. I can find the album in the songs category and the albums category it's just it doesn't show tha name of the artist. All of the other albums that i downloaded before i updated my itunes to th most recent update are fine. It's just the two that i downloaded afterwards. Thanks for trying though.

Difficulties with Album Art+Organization

When I import an entire album (in this case an example is the Grey's Anatomy soundtrack) most every song in this album appears in it's own seperate album category when I display my music collection with the album or coverflow view.
Because of this--my songs are grouped in the order of the seemingly random album they are in, not in the order they were originally imported and meant to be in.
Does this make sense to anyone? And if so I could use any help anyone has to give me. Thanks! (I can do a better job describing this if someone doesn't understand)

Same problem here on a first generation ipod touch. Beyond the Genius mix ar replacing album art, video thumbnails have replaced album art on various random albums. And Podcast art has been missing and or wonky for even longer.
I found an old solution to remove the art cache from an ipod but it dosn't seem to exist anymore.
Help or advice would be greatly appreciated.

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