Browsing by Genre annoyances

I've always had my iTunes library set up so I browse by Genre, then when I enter the genre it's all organised by artist>album
I've just installed the latest version and now this has swapped to to Alphabetical Album organisation.
This is incredibly annoying, is there anyway to change this back?

A found it... view: show browser.... well well... would have expected that my settings would not have been touched by the upgrade:-)

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Why iphone displays "No content" when i try to browse by genre?
I have huge collection of songs. I have organised all audio according to album, genre, composer, artist and so on.
after syncing my iphone when i tried to browse songs according to genre it says NO CONTENT.
Prob is that I can browse it by album, composers but am not able to by GENRE.
What should I do?

Reset your iPhone, no loss of content.

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Hi! Just upgraded to iTunes v7.0. In v6.0 I could search by genre, artist etc in the top, now I just have all my songs in the library. Is there a way to get this back? Many thanks!

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Hello,
I find it pretty confusing and difficult to drill down to a sub-genre. Perhaps it is something that I am missing or a preference that I have neglected to unable. But some content is really hard find, unless I use the specific track name or artist name.
Ideally, I am looking to do something like this:
- Enter the "electronic" genre in the iTunes store (which is so random and huge)
- Get a list of sub-genres like (trance, drum n bass, house, indie, dub step) etc...
- Drill down into one of the sub genres like "trance"
- Then, see all the sub-genres for trance like (melodic, vocal, progressive, epic) etc...
Is this type of navigation possible in the iTunes store? If so, I would love to figure out how to use it.
Thanks!

You may also wish to try out some specialty stores such as Juno Downloads which lets you directly browse to sub-genres of trance.

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what happen to the browsing abilities in the library, in my old version i had three scrolling window panes with these in them, i noticed they are not on 6.0.2 does anyone know if they can be put on there? i have looked but come up empty.
thanks
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yep.. that worked.. i must have missed it. i was looking for like ten minutes.. i could find it.. Thanks for your time!
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When I browse to genres iTune crashes on iPod Touch 3rd Gen.

When I use my iPod touch and head over to the genres button, the whole music system stops.
But when I go to composers or something else, it will still play and work.
Anyone know how I can fix that?

Highlight the movie in iTunes, go to menu ADVANCED and select create iPod version. Sync the newly created version over to iPod. Will it play this time?

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But the Rhythym and Remix jam packs don't seem to be labeled by Genre.
How can I identify them? There are way too many to just look and see what seems to be new or find them by trial and error.
Even the EXS24 instruments had to be moved to separate folders by hand to separate them from the other Garage Band instruments (but I could separate them from the others by date, so I figured out a way).
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Hi Les,
I haven't used the loop browser much in Logic, but I know that it is very similar to the one in Garageband. If it's pretty much the same browser, then there will be a way to filter your search by "packages." For example, you can select the Remix jam pack and select loops just from it's collection.
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Is there any way to browse all sales excluding rental only & short films?

Is there any way to browse all film sales excluding rental only & short films?
I am finding the laborious process of clicking through page by page in cover view annoying to the extreme to search new additions to the available film sales lists every week or so. The display page is always slightly deeper than my window so it means having to scroll down to view the last row of covers and click next page.
Apple... Is there any chance of having an auto scrolling (with pause and previous/next feature) film cover flow with description view of each film large enough to view the image, preferably filling the screen, perhaps also a feature in Front Row that will show available films to buy/rent in iTunes or an RSS screen saver that could give you a constant update of the last 10/20 films added?
Something that will make the task of searching for titles you might like to buy less of a 'task' and more intuitive. I don't really want to browse by Genre and a Cover image only view tells you nothing about the film.
If the screen in front of me gave me a constantly (controllable when required) changing view, similar to the content displayed in Front Row of a title you have selected i'd be happy.
Message was edited by: Rob Wilton

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Multiple Artists and Genres per Song

I listen to lots of electronic music, and I'm a professional DJ.
Electronic music is a very diverse and complex music category, and have lots of genres and sub-genres. Electronic music producers usually try to transpose genre boundaries, and they usually produce songs contained in two or more equally important genres. For instance, a track can be contained in the genres "house" and "techno", or "disco", "techno" and "acid".
Also, it's really very common that electronic music artists collaborate with each other. Songs produced in collaboration do not belong to one single artist, but to two or more. In this case, it's not correct to say that one is the main artist, and the others are second artists (collaborators, composers remixes, or whatever) - they all detain the same equal authorship status over the composed track.
The problem with iTunes is that it supports one single genre, and one single artist per song. Sure, there's the album artist, but, again, that doesn't apply to albums where multiple artists participate with equal importance. And using "V.A." or "Various Artists" in the song artist or album artist fields is ugly and useless - it doesn't say anything relevant.
I know that Smart Playlists and Grouping features can help alleviate this deficiency, but they don't solve them at all. They're not elegant and complete solutions. If you browse the iTunes library, you will still see tracks as having only one genre and one artist, which is very frustrating.
What I ask is really easy to implement. In fact, it wouldn't require to alter the existing ID3 and tag scheme. Just split artists and genres using a colon or semicolon character. For instance, in the "Artist" tag, iTunes can store the following:
    "Christian Smith; Mark Broom; Renato Cohen"
and then, in the browser, iTunes could display "Christian Smith", "Mark Broom" and "Renato Cohen" as three distinct artists.
The same could be used for the "Genre" tag:
    "Techno; House; Progressive"
could be see, in the browser, as three different genres: "Techno", "House" and "Progressive".
I've made an extensive web research, and I know that this deficiency doesn't annoy only me, but lots of other users. And it's a pretty old request too - dated from 2003.
Please, Apple, implement this feature. My huge electronic music collection really needs to be categorized into multiple artists and multiple genres.
Thank you.

Well said comment...
The solution to this problem overall is simple.
If I pull out my Ipod, and go to the section to browse by artist, then all artists would be listed individually in the list if they are separated in a song by the '&' symbol. In the main music list in itunes, this would not result in multiple copies of the file.
The same situation would apply in the genre browser. If there is a tag with "POP & Chinese" then the song would appear if I was searching in pop OR Chinese. It would not show a Genre called "POP & Chinese" in the genre browser. It would show POP and Chinese SEPARATELY in the list!!!
This is not a issue of some programming esoterica nor does it require some super genius to figure out.
Wake up Apple programmers....
Even smartlists are broken in the ipad/ipod and don't work the same way as they do in itunes. WHAT ARE YOU DOING WITH THAT A5X chip that you can't fix this problem? I make a smartlist for the genre section at least and this allows me to accomplish what I stated above with genres by using the smartlists instead of the genre browser.
The artist browser and genre browser are worthless to me... since MANY of my songs have multi-artist and multi-genre separated by '&' and the stupid browser lists all the permutations instead of delimiting the genres and artists.
My genre list looks sorta like this:
Pop & chinese & instrumental
Pop & japanese
Pop & Soundtrack & Anime & Japanese
Pop & score & anime
Pop & chinese & vocal
Pop & electronica
What a mess... but I can't categorize my stuff any other way without making it hard to decide which place to put a song. Does a chinese soundtrack pop song get filed under chinese? or pop? or soundtrack? I SHOULD be able to find the song regardless of which sub-genre I look under in the genre browser.
This is basically simple. The people that understand this are basically right and Apple is WRONG on this... no matter what detractors on this thread say. The devices and software could easily be tweaked to dramatically improve the user experience but Apple is poor at getting involved in discussion forums like this to allow us to help them fix these issues. Some of the product developers on the app store are far more receptive to suggestions than Apple is. They are not getting enough of the advantages of crowd sourcing.
I would fly out to Cupertino and correct MANY UI mistakes/errors for them if they will have me out there...
I'll hold my breath and wait for a message to have me come out there. There are still a lot of things about OSX and iOS that can be made simpler too. still FAR too much extraneous junk and poor implementation of cloud capabilities.
Why on earth does itunes have a "get info" menu dropdown to get into track data? Why is the track data separated into 7 submenus separated by tabs? The whole data entry situation in itunes is way too complex. It's downright painful.
Why are there no 24bit audio files yet for premium prices? Are the people at apple doing too much LSD? WHAT IS GOING ON? You have to be disabled not to hear the difference between great recordings and that 256kbps garbage the peddle. come to my house on the 107db sensitivity speakers with a Class A amplifier and tell me you can't tell the difference and I will have your hearing checked.
hopefully the itunes department will contact someone on this thread to provide a list of the mistakes in itunes/ipod software so the problems can all be fixed.
An AUDIOPHILE needs to take over itunes and fix this nonsense STAT. It's simply embarassing at this point. Where are my 24 bit files on my 1000gb ipod? WHY IS THERE NO AUDIOPHILE IPOD? They can use there 100 billion cash hoard and make a GOOD home distribution system beyond "airplay/airport".
Why is mediocrity being considered at Apple when they do so many other things great? Considering I own half a million dollars in stock, believe me I do appreciate the company at large. I am only ranting about the treatment of audiophiles and the complete dumbing down of the music experience to mass garbage when we live in the 21st century.   What we see is important (retina display) but what we hear is not?
/rant off...
Apple feel free to contact me and I can tell you how to develop the BEST product for music ever implemented... I don't need compensation... I want products that I WANT to buy!!!!

Bug in the music browser?

SITUATION:
The ATV2 allows the user to browse by GENRE. The second choice in order narrow down the search will be ARTIST followed by ALBUM. In the ARTIST menu all artists are shown with tracks that match the initial genre choice. The user can either choose to either see all albums of a specific artist or choose "ALL" in order to see all albums of the entire library with just those tracks that match the GENRE choice in the first place.
BUG:
Choosing GENRE = "Score" and ARTIST = "ALL" lists ALL albums of ALL artists. There seems to be a bug in the database selection statement.
FIX:
This choice should list all albums with just those tracks that are labeled as "Score".
It is probably likely that there are other combinations that in the music browser that will have similar bugs. Anyone else with this one?

I just noticed the same thing. It works the "right" way on my 3rd generation iPod, so I see no reason why the Apple TV 2.0 suddenly broke this behavior.
I use playlists a lot, but sometimes I want to narrow down a search to a genre then look at albums. Annoying

Why aren't all available titles accessible in browse mode?

I finally got around to exploring iTMS. I hate the front pages -- they are too glossy and don't have any significant content. Eventually I discovered how to get to the "browse" listing. So, I am browsing the TV shows listings, and notice that there are no "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" listed. (Browse mode, genre TV shows, no listing in the TV shows column). I thought this was strange, since I remembered hearing that they were expensive compared to other shows. Then, somehow I ended up back on the "glossy" TV page, and a picture that links to his shows is there. Following this link, I am able to find a number of Conan shows.
So, my questions are:
Is "browse" supposed to list ALL the content of the iTMS?
If so, why isn't "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" listed in the TV section when it is available from the iTMS?
If not, is there any way to tell which items are missing from the "browse" list?
-=[doug]=-
Imac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.3)
Mac OS X (10.4.3)

You can choose which columns are displayed by right-clicking on the column headings and selecting from the list. Properties with a tick are displayed and clicking on any item toggles its visibility. You can also drag the headings left or right, or resize them to suit your needs. You can sort on most columns when in playlists (though not in the Podcasts view) simply by clicking on the heading. Clicking again, or on the little black triangle, reverses the order. Since you can't (or shouldn't be able to) turn off the Name/Podcasts column my guess is that the column has been placed over to the right where you won't see it if the view is scrolled to the left, or vice versa.
I may be confused however, I assumed we were dicussing iTunes but now I think you mean the view on your iPhone. In which case the listing order for podcasts should normally be most recent entry last, although it really depends on values embedded in the tag by the podcast producer. Sometimes when they release a number of episodes at the same time, or change where they are hosted from, it can upset the sort order.
Try resetting the device to see if that helps. Are you subscribed to more than one podcast series so you can compare behaviour?
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Movie genres not working in UK

Since updating to 7.0.2 the movie genres option doesn't seem to work.
How do I select movies to rent or buy if I can't browse the genres?

Apple Support's response was to restart my router and Apple TV.
Unfortunately this has not solved the problem.
Movie genres still not working for me here in UK.
I guess we will have to wait for a fix at Apple's end.

Apple TV 2 shows Playlisted Radio Station Genres under Music.

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In order to remember three Internet Radio Stations, I dragged them into a Playlist titled Radio Stations on my PC library. As a result, those 'odd' Genres now show up under Music as described above when using Apple TV to access my library or using Apple Remote on my iPhone to access my library.
I guess the only way to stop seeing those Radio Station Genres is to delete the Radio Station Playlist, but then that sort of defeats the purpose of using that function for when I'm sitting in front of my PC.
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Thanks.

Thanks, Gino.
I was thinking that would be the case.
It is odd, however, that when I use Apple Remote to control the Apple TV and use 'Computers' to access my PC library rather than swipe 'Control' (or the Apple TV remote itself), the Music Genres show up correctly; as in without displaying the Radio Station Genres!
It's when I control my PC library directly with Apple Remote or access my PC library with Apple TV that the Radio Station Genres appear under Music.
It does seem a bit inconsistent and a not intuitive.
Oh, well. Thought I'd ask!
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Is thare a way to delete extre genres catagories from ipod classis when pluged in to computer I con not finde any way to do so?

Is thare a way to delete extra genres categories from ipod classic?When plugged in to computer I can not find any kind of option?

Of course. Simply change the genre of the songs so that none of your songs have the genre you wish to get rid of.
You have two ways of showing the genre in iTunes. So if you cannot already see the genre, choose one of the following methods:
Select View/As List and then select View/View Options and put a tick-in-the-box for Genre. Now that you can see the genre, simply select the songs with the genre you wish to change and type in the genre you do want.
Select View/Column Browser and then select View/Column Browser/Genre (so that genre is ticked). This time, in the top browser column (genre) scroll down to and select the genre. Now all songs with that genre are shown in one group. Either a.) change them one at a time (if choosing different "new" genres) or b.) select all of them at once - and then select File/Get Info/Info/Genre, and replace the genre.
A genre is only shown if there is at least one song with that genre.

Muddled genres/categories

i have a new ipod. i dragged all my music folders from hard disk into itunes in one go and loaded onto new ipod classic 120gig. however, when i browse by genre, the albums are all over the place. How can i ensure that the right album goes into the right genre? Big thanks for any input, i want my ears to ache, not my head!

You'll need to fill in the info tags against all the songs in iTunes and fix any genres that are incorrect. Once you've everything the way you want it sync the iPod to pick up the changes. To select multiple items such as all the songs in an album, click on the first track in the list hold down the shift key and click on the last track to highlight the selection. Right click anywhere in the selection and choose Get Info, you'll get a message asking if you want to edit multiple items, choose yes. Choose the Genre you want from the menu or make your own by choosing Custom.
To easily see what songs are in what genre switch on the browser in iTunes, this will allow you to filter your list of songs by any combination of Genre, Artist or Album. In iTunes go to View>Show Browser or on your keyboard press the CTRL and B keys together.

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