Alphabetical sort in Music app is messed up

Good day to everyone, I hope someone will help me with my problem. As you can see on the screenshot, alphabetical sort of my music in default Music app is messed up, for example song which name starts on B can appear in the middle of songs on C. I am not sure when this problem started, but I believe it started after I updated iTunes to 11.1.1. I tried using older version to no luck. I never found this exact problem with Google, but I didnt find any. With similar problems people said that you should reset your setting and it didnt help me.

Looks like Google has a server problem in Asia:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3467711?tstart=0

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I've got what it seems to be an annoying bug from the new Music App/iPod in iOS5. It simply sorts my artists out of alphabetical order on the artist dashboard. I tried to use the option "group by album artist" on and off and it seems to have no effect on that issue.
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I got some Screenshots of the problem taking place, attached below.

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Sounds like a mouthful, but basically im saying that I have a bunch of compilations that when displayed in itunes on my pc,
show the album art which is set for the first track. This is to be expected.
But when i upload the compilations to my iPhone 5, and i open up the Music app and select the compilations tab...
The same compilations show another album art that is actually associated with another track in the compilation.
When i looked for a pattern, i found that it would basically take the album art from the track in the compilation based on the artists name in reverse alphabetical order.
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THIS IS A BUG APPLE!!!... test it for yourselves... someone broke your db sorting in the new itunes. ITunes 11, with iPhone 5
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There is a new feature in iOS 7 that shows you all your purchases made with your Apple ID. To disable this feature go to Settings > Music, then turn off Show All Music. This information can be found on the user guide below.
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yoyawan wrote:
Not really. I has 49 songs and still had the scroll bar. I think the bar disappear when I erase the Songs that sync even when they are not in the playlist.
hi this is a dumb phone!
So just use the Albums or Artists option to find the album or artist, and select your desired song from that. It's a lot faster than scrolling through a list of hundreds of songs or even using the scroll bar.
I've got about 500+ songs on my device, and I never use 'Songs' option. It's not even on my bottom quick icons in the Music app anymore.
Playlists Artists Albums Genres More is what I have on my bottom quick icons now.
With only 49 songs, you don't really need a scroll bar.

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