Cover flow on IPod Classic is out of order

The cover flow on my Classic is out of order, not alphabetical by artirst. Most of the albums are in order, but there is about a dozen that are after "Z" (for example Cream. Should be in the C section, where it is in ITunes. Any ideas?

Never hurts to reset the device just in case that helps.
Confirm that the Sort Artist fields for the affected tracks are actually empty instead of containing one or more invisible spaces. Note that iTunes groups on Album Artist (order amended by Sort Album Artist) whereas the iPod Classic groups on Artist (order amended by Sort Artist).
See the section Missing or Artist or Album not with others by same artist which explains that enabling one or both of Settings > Main Menu > Compilations or Settings > Music Menu > Compilations can affect where tracks appear in cover flow.
The iTunes Store tends to mark albums that include any featured artists, or form an anthology of an artist's work, as part of a compilation to mitigate some of iTunes historically poor track grouping issues. Depending on your preferences within iTunes this flag may not have any noticable effect in iTunes, but may control what happens on the device.
Even though you can't see where the problem lies it may help to amend the track details in the way I describe at Tried that, there are STILL too many covers and then resync the device.
tt2

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The Cover Flow on my iPod classic is out of order

I use the cover flow option on my iPod classic to get to the music I want to listen to and discovered that my albums are out of order in regards of being alphabetical order by artists. For example the greatest hits and soundtracks and other compilations are moved to the back instead of being in order with the artist that made the album. Is there anyone that can help me resolve this issue?

See my previous post on Grouping Tracks Into Albums, in particular the topic Missing Artist or Album not with others by same artist.
tt2

Cover flow on ipod classic 160gb 6th gen

I was just given an ipod classic 160gb 6th gen, it the previous owners music on it, so I hooked it up to itunes & restored it & updated it to factory settings & put my name on it. I noticed in cover flow mode, that albums are doubled, one for the entire album, then the album cover again for individual songs. when I go to album view, the albums show up ok, there are no double ups there. I also notice when I scroll down to the now playing with the split screen, it comes up blank with no cover art. I had an 80gb 5th gen ipod & everything seemed ok. I wiped it clean with a restore as well to start fresh. It took about an hour & a half to sync over my music library from my external hard drive to my new 160 gb 6th gen ipod. It seems to play ok, so far, I just got it today, & I have been playing it on & off to try it out.
I am running itunes 9.0.1.8. Also when I plug in my ipod, itunes ops up with an update message for me to update, I click ok for the update, but nothing seems to happen, so I do not know if itunes has updated or not.
Message was edited by: Sossity

Sossity wrote:
Ok, should I try the trialing X, for those persistent multi covers that do not respond to adjusting the track names as first suggested? I went to your tips page & saw the graphic for that. Is it ok to just leave the Xs in or must they be removed?
iTunes tries to be "smart" and only updates the tag if it thinks you've changed something. Adding the X is a temporary measure to force iTunes to acknowlege that something has changed and thereby hopefully merge the album. Once it's done you can get rid of the unecessary trailing Xs.
I also looked at your image for handling multi discs, will this group multi discs together in cover flow?
Yes, that's the point.
& when one is playing a multi disc set, will the ipod just go straight to the next disc (disc 2) in playback as though it were one single album?
Yes.
or will playback stop at the last track of disc 1 & then one would have to select disc 2 to play.
No.
Will the multi disc set still come up as 2 different discs to selct to play? I may not want to start with disc 1.
No. You can always chose which track to start playing.
One of the albums I was having trouble with multi covers was part of a 2 disc set, disc 1 was credited to the main artist, but had guest artists for 1/2 the tracks, disc 2 was by the same artist with no guest artists. I have now gotten disc 1 to show as a single cover in cover flow by checking off part of a compilation in the info panel, but it does not appear next to disc 2 in cover flow.
Again setting *Part of a compilation" is the wrong approach. Set *Part of a compilation* to No, put your guest artist info. into the track titles (or any other scheme you choose) and make sure that the Artist value is consistent for all tracks.
on an off note, I notice when I press my ipod button or navigate any of its features, there is a slight grinding noise, I can hear the hard drive, when I bring it close to my ear, it sounds like a chewing mouse is this ok/normal to hear slight noises? it seems to be functioning alright. It is pretty responsive.
Yes, the noise from disc activity is normal. My iPod lives in a silcone sleeve which probably muffles it a bit and most of the time I'll have already have music playing so I'm rarely conscious of the noise of hard drive activity but it is there.
tt2

Just took my iPod classic 160GB out of box turned it on and accidently hit clickwheel or button and eveything is in language other than english. How do I get it back to english without being able to read symbols.

just took my iPod classic 160GB out of box, turned it on and accidentially hit a button changing the language from english to something else (chinese or japanese). All I see now is symbols. How do I turn it back to english without knowing what any of these symbols mean. I started clicking buttons and click wheel and can't seem to get to any section with various language options. Please some help me get it back to english.

There are two options. The first is to learn whatever language you have it set to, the second is to find someone else with an iPod Classic and read the English menu and follow it in your iPod. I also believe you may be able to set language perfunces from within iTunes while the iPod is docked, providing they are in English.

Why is the music list for my ipod classic grayed out in itunes?

why is the music list for my ipod classic grayed out in itunes?

I have a similar problem. Originally, my iTunes advanced setting was set such that a shortcut to the song was copied into my music library so sometimes copying songs to my iPod resulted in them being grayed out. I changed that setting some time ago and haven't had the problem until recently.
I don't know what to do. here's the situation:
     1. I have a song that is stored on my file system within My Documents. (it was purchased via Amazon)
     2. Through iTunes I choose the File | Import file to library (or some text like that)
     3. I navigate to the location of the song
     4. I import it.
     5. I can play the tune from the music library or from an internal PC playlist.
     6. I then attempt to copy the song to my iPod. When I do, it appears in the iPod's playlist grayed out.
I have done those steps countless times for dozens of songs without a problem. Even others that I've purchased through Amazon. What is so different this time? I should mention that this problem NEVER happens if I buy the song through the iTunes store. Only if I buy it from another source (e.g. Amazon). WHY ???

Enable artist overview, cover flow on ipod AND artist column in iTunes...

Greetingz
Here's the problem:
I want to enable the artist column in iTunes for all my music.
I can already do this with genres and albums, and its so convenient.
However the artist column is showing only "collections" instead of -+for example Abba, Aerosmith, ACDC, ..+-
This is because I have put everything on Complication "Yes"
and on my ipod classic complication in the music menu is 'clicked' off. Why? so the ipod doesn't show all covers separately in the cover flow. its all good on the ipod; I can also get a list of all artists and genres. But in iTunes the artist column only gives one category and thats "complications" not like abba aerosmith acdc you name it. How can I get this right for both the ipod (remember also the cover flow as well as the artists must work correctly) AND iTunes? I find this very complicated and one of the only things I am unable to figer out.
Many many thanks to all who help!

"Compilation" means that the album is one of those Time-Life type "Disco Hits" or "50's Greats" CDs that aren't by one artist. I would suggest either turning off compilations for everything or going through each song and filling in the "Album Artist" field.

My ipod classic ran out of battery, when I turned it back on all my songs were gone. How can I recover them on a windows vista computer? Also, the itunes on my vista does not have all my original songs. Please help

My Ipod Classic died because it ran out of battery. Finally, today when I was able to plug it into my computer to
charge it, all my music was gone. It did not show up on the Itunes nor was it present on my Ipod. Which freaked
me out. I dont know what to do because I do have Itunes but all the music I had on my Ipod was from my
first computer, which I no longer have because it was stolen. However, on my Itunes it says my Ipod
has 14.27 GB used and 13.55 FREE. So I just want to know how to get my music back on to my Ipod
and that it shows up in Itunes again. I have a Windows Vista so if anyone knows instructions it would
be greatly appreciated!

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https://discussions.apple.com/message/7217190#7217190

Cover flow on ipod nano not working

My cover flow on my ipod stopped working when i plugged in ipod. Have the covers on itunes just not ipod. Also songs skip to next song sometimes also. Could be any song I never know. Seems since i upgraded to new itunes version stuff has been going wrong.

Try checking your ipod settings, i had an itunes one change on its own once. Go to settings, then general, then rotate. If it says "off", then just hit the center button. If it says "cover flow", then see if it's the orientation sensor by going to the "maze" game if you have it to test it. The circle thing on the menu will probably glitch up/not move if it's the orientation sensor. If it responds normally (rolls/slides in the direction you tip the ipod), then i'm not sure. Try calling their customer service line at 1-800-APL-CARE (1-800-275-2273) if that happens. Also, if you are walking w/ it with the hold switch off, then it may me that your walking is shaking it enough to shuffle it. That's my theory, anyway.
BTW, are you're sure the ipod's not too flat for the sensor to register the rotation? I've done that before. It'll register at about a 45 degree angle.

Viewing cover flow through ipod playing on itunes

I have too much music and don't keep it all on the computer hard drive. Can I plug ipod into itunes and view Cover Flow of the ipod contents while its playing? Cover Flow works great with the files that are in itunes Library, just not through the ipod>computer>itunes.

Can I plug ipod into itunes and view Cover Flow of the ipod contents while its playing?
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Cover flow with ipod

I just downloaded itunes 7 for windows, amd running windows XP and I have an Ipod nano.
cover flow works fine with my libarary on my computer, but I am not able to use it when I play music from my ipod through itunes on my computer. Is this not an option or am I doing something wrong.
help?

Well actually you've always been able to play music via your iPod on the computer.
The point of being able to do this is if you have a situation in which you plug your iPod into a computer other than your own (or the one the iPod is associated with) that doesn't have any of your music on it, like a computer at work or in a school computer lab, etc. I use this all the time at the office.
It would be neat to see cover flow on the iPod, but I'm fairly certain that would require some 3d graphics acceleration, which iPods don't quite have yet. Hopefully once they get to that point, they'll be able to do fullscreen visualizations :-D.

IPod classic cutting out

So I have seen this post elsewhere but I didnt see an answer to it so I'm gonna try it.
I have the 160GB Classic MC297LL running 2.0.4.
When it is in my pocket, I always slide the "Lock" switch over so I don't make unwanted changes by locking out the front panel.
After a certain amount of time (seems like 5 minutes or so), the musci cuts out and the only way I can re-instate my vibes is to slide the "Lock" switch over. Kinda frustrating during a good workout session or a good run.
Anyone else encountered this? Is there a fix?
Cheers

There are a few possibilities with this scenario. The first is that the motion of your workout is the iPod's hard drive which was/is not designed to withstand a lot of motion.
Also, another feature of the iPod Classic is the auto pause feature that is activated when the iPod detects that the headphones are no longer connected. Have you tried a different set of earbuds to see if that makes a difference? For some reason, the iPod could be thinking that the headphones have been disconnected from again the movement of your workout. Sliding the lock swtich off and then back on allows the iPod to detect the headset again.
It might be worth working through the usual 5 R's of troubleshooting to rule out the possibility of a software glitch/error.
http://www.apple.com/support/ipod/five_rs/
B-rock

IPod Classic Video Out Question

Hello Everyone,
I would like to connect an iPod Classic 160GB to my car stereo with a screen and use TV out to navigate the menus of the iPod. Is this possible or does the TV out function only work on actual video and not navigating through menus? Thanks.

I have exactly the same issues. I can't believe what I hear when I compare Ipod classic with iphone 4S. The same song play on IPhone 4S with EQ set to Classical is perfectly smooth and clear but the same EQ in IPOD classic have the sound clipped and distorted. The drum cracks into many pieces instead of a solid 'TUD!' in iphone 4S. Try this songs on both devices, you will know what I mean:
Ann Sally - O Barquinho.
IPOD classics plays it like a piece of badly torn fabric, but on IPhone 4S the sound is perfect. Stevenfromwi is correct, it is about harmonic distortion (clipping of the sound) which no one can find it pleasing. Just try out the song above by setting both IPOD and IPHONE to Classical EQ and you will know what I mean.
When I search the reviews of IPOD classics, I am surprised that expert reviewers have long known about this issue of IPOD classics and put it as one of the long-standing and thumb-down problem of IPOD classics. See the review below:
http://www.expertreviews.co.uk/mp3-players/272431/apple-ipod-classic-160gb
("...It's disappointing that Apple hasn't completely fixed the audio distortion..." ~ extracted from the article)
I will have to sell away my IPOD classics and find other media player now since I really cannot accept the clipping of sound. It is very dissapointing!!!

TS1382 i need to get back cover off my ipod classic.

hello i have a ipod classic 120 gb ,god i love it . well the other day i droped it and it started actkting funny it would turn on and show music but would not play. this morning it would not go to music it showed a red x on screen . i tried to run it through test and it gets stuck,on{ cant open devicel } error! diag halt . what do i need to do ? some one said it may be the hard drive cord or some thing like that , help please.

It is not likely that you will find anything worthwhile repairing inside it, but you could peruse the repair guides in iFixit for help:
http://www.ifixit.com/Device/iPod_Classic

Ipod Classic TV out Problem

I bought the apple Component AV cable. When i hooded it up I get sound and a picture but my screen has a double picture on it. On one side I have the show playing and and the other side I have the same show playing. Does any one know why this is happening. I have a Samsung TV, and I am using the Componet AV on the TV.

nmemmert3 wrote:
I bought the apple Component AV cable. When i hooded it up I get sound and a picture but my screen has a double picture on it. On one side I have the show playing and and the other side I have the same show playing. Does any one know why this is happening. I have a Samsung TV, and I am using the Componet AV on the TV.
Is this a newer HDTV? If not, you might be seeing this because the new iPod classic sends a progressive signal via component and your TV only accepts an interlaced signal via component in?

Classical movements out of order--new problem

My classical movements for one composer are out of order, and they are in the same order as when I had the artist box at the top highlighted in iTunes. I might have had it sorted that way accidentally when they were imported to my iPOD. They are resorted correctly now in iTunes but they are still out of order for that composer in the iPOD. I had to manually type in all the info so I know there aren't id3 tags. How can I resort these--delete them on the iPOD and replace them? If so, how do I do that?

When you imported your CDs their track numbers were recorded and iTunes checked "Part of a compliation" in Get Info. iTunes knows the proper sequence of tracks, you just have to tell iTunes to actually play them that way.
There are two easy ways to do this. One is to sort the tracks by clicking the "Track Number" column. The other way is to sort by "Genre". Assuming all the tracks have the identical "Genre", iTunes will default to sorting them in order of the track number. They will then play in the order you expect.
I prefer the second method because it will maintain order spanning multiple CDs.
If either the Genre or Track Number columns are not visible, use the View menu, select "Show view options..." and check "Track Number" and / or "Genre" as is your preference.

Cover flow on IPod Classic is out of order

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