IPhone music sorted incorrectly
Since enabling iTunes in the Cloud, my music is sorted incorrectly on my iPhone. Albums starting with "S" will appear under "T", for instance.
Even after disabling iTunes in the Cloud, the problem persists. I've tried synching my phone, to no avail.
See the attached photo for an example.
First off, thank you for the screenshot, users fail to post these and it helps out a ton.
The only thing that stjmps me is Truthfully Truthfully is sorted under V.
I switched to my albums tab on my iPhone and I have songs like "The You Asked..." which is sorted under Y because it ignores "The." I also have a song "The Wa.." sorted under W, which is again, ignoring "The" before it. I don't think there is any problem here, it's just the way it's sorted.
Are you having this issue with your songs tab or artists? What about playlists?
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IPhone Music Sorting - Album year field
Hi
I originally posted the below in the iPhone section, but I think it may be more appropriate here.
I have a selection of radio shows and podcasts that I want to sort into a certain order on my iPhone, but no matter what I do in iTunes I cannot get them to display correctly. Here's what I have done so far:
1. Split the 'songs' into 'albums', with one album for each series/ group of podcasts.
2. Made sure that all of the 'songs' are correctly labelled in the 'info' tab. The following is the same for all songs:
- Artist
- Album Artist
- All other fields are blank (with the exception of 'Year' which I will come on to later)
3. Changed the 'Album Sort' field on the 'Sorting' tab so that the albums are sorted in chronological order and the actual title of the 'album' is ignored. e.g.:
- XFM Series 1 (from 2001) is labelled as 'A' in the 'Album Sort' field
- XFM Series 2 (from 2002) is labelled as 'B'
- XFM Series 3 (from 2003) is labelled as 'C'
- XFM Series 4 (from 2004) is labelled as 'D'
- Radio 2 shows (from 2005) are labelled as 'E'
Doing the above gets the albums to display perfectly in iTunes, with them being sorted in chronological order as dictated by the 'Album Sort' field.
I then synced the albums onto my iPhone and expected all to be well, but instead found that when I went to the 'Artists' tab they were listed in reverse chronological order (newest album first). So to fix this I went into iTunes and tried the following:
1. Went into the 'info' tab for all albums and set the year to 2001 for all. As the year is the same for all it should now sort by 'Album Sort' in theory. That didn't work though so I tried...
2. Set the years in reverse order for each album, so that the latest series 'Radio 2 shows' was labelled as 2001, and the oldest album 'XFM Series 1' was labelled as 2005.
That still didn't work, but even more strangely when I view the album on the iPhone a different year is being displayed under the title, e.g.:
XFM Series 3
12 Songs, 686 mins
2006
I have checked that album in iTunes and 2006 is not contained anywhere on the album or song info tabs. I have tried to add a different year in the year field, and also delete the year field, but no matter what I do 2006 continues to be displayed.
Where is this year being held within the file and how can I change it? I checked the ID3 tags for a song from that album in VLC and could not see 2006 referenced anywhere.
Thanks for any help!Hello,
As far as I can see, you can't sort the order of music on the iPod Touch. It is always sorted alphabetically.
Maybe you can suggest that as a feature to Apple.
~Lt. Leviathan -
Album Art Sorting incorrectly in Compilations/Albums iphone Music App listing/tab
Album Art Sorting incorrectly in Compilations/Albums iphone Music App listing/tab
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.
So if i had album art associated with every track in the compilation, normally it would show in the listing the album art of the first track... but now it was actually the album art of the artist name starting closest to the letter z.
I've tested this many times. very annoying. but to explain again...
If i have a compilation containing artists from Coldplay to Ziggy Marley... no matter where in the listing Ziggy Marley is listed first to last... it will display the Album art associated to Ziggy Marley in the List view for the Compilations or Albums tab in the Music app on an iPhone 5.
Normally you would expect it to show the album art associated with the first track in the listing as it does in Itunes so as to keep uniformity between what you upload in iTunes and what you see in the Music app on the iPhone.
THIS IS A BUG APPLE!!!... test it for yourselves... someone broke your db sorting in the new itunes. ITunes 11, with iPhone 5
Please fix!
Thank you kindly...another note... when i select the album from the list (on the iphone, in the music app) and it slides over to show all tracks in the compilation...
it then shows the proper album art as it should.
Also, when i check cover flow it then shows another incorrect cover? -
Music Sorting in iOS 7.1 (Issue)
I know some people hated it, but iOS 7.0.x sorted music in the Music app by release date which I thought was awesome. Sorting by name also makes sense, so there's no reason why there shouldn't be an option for either. In iOS 7.1.x, the Music app continues sorting by release date, but in descending order (i.e. newest is always at the top of the list) rather than ascending (newest is always at the bottom of the list).
This method of sorting seems utterly useless to me (why is there an implicit assumption in this design that I want the newest music of an artist at the top?), and now I can't just listen to an artist's entire discography in order, which I was thoroughly enjoying before this afternoon's update.
I would VERY much like to see an option within the preferences for the Music app to sort albums by artist in ascending order (oldest album of an artist at the top, and newest at the bottom) as well as by name (in case someone doesn't care about release dates). I shouldn't have to make a playlist to play an artist's discography in order on my phone, especially when I don't have to do that on my computer.Bazoingdoing wrote:
My music sorted in ascending order on iTunes, it has been since I've had iTunes. Prior to iOS 7.0.x, albums were sorted by name under the artist. In iOS 7.0.x, that changed, and albums were sorted by release date in ascending order (i.e. newest at the bottom). Now, in iOS 7.1.x, albums are sorted by release date in descending order (i.e. newest at the top).
It was changed on your system, not mine.
Mine were never sorted by release date. It has always been sorted Album by Artist.
Try this.
In iTunes, select the iPhone.
Then go to iTunes menu View > View options and select a sort, then sync the iPhone. -
A suggestion for an update to the music player. The music library needs to have an option to sort the music by albums also apart from Artists.
Not everyone organises their music by artists and most Indian music is generally sorted yb Albums. S60 used to have this option but don't understand why this was taken away in S^3Bazoingdoing wrote:
My music sorted in ascending order on iTunes, it has been since I've had iTunes. Prior to iOS 7.0.x, albums were sorted by name under the artist. In iOS 7.0.x, that changed, and albums were sorted by release date in ascending order (i.e. newest at the bottom). Now, in iOS 7.1.x, albums are sorted by release date in descending order (i.e. newest at the top).
It was changed on your system, not mine.
Mine were never sorted by release date. It has always been sorted Album by Artist.
Try this.
In iTunes, select the iPhone.
Then go to iTunes menu View > View options and select a sort, then sync the iPhone. -
Is there a way to change the way Music sorts? In IOS 6 it was sorted by artist, then each album was sorted, and you were able to click on a particular album, in IOS7 every album for an artist is in release date order, and its a pain having to scroll through all the albums when you only want one.
Bazoingdoing wrote:
My music sorted in ascending order on iTunes, it has been since I've had iTunes. Prior to iOS 7.0.x, albums were sorted by name under the artist. In iOS 7.0.x, that changed, and albums were sorted by release date in ascending order (i.e. newest at the bottom). Now, in iOS 7.1.x, albums are sorted by release date in descending order (i.e. newest at the top).
It was changed on your system, not mine.
Mine were never sorted by release date. It has always been sorted Album by Artist.
Try this.
In iTunes, select the iPhone.
Then go to iTunes menu View > View options and select a sort, then sync the iPhone. -
IPhone music app feature request - how to change song title on iPhone music
#heyApple!
how about adding the ability to edit object information on the iPhone music library.
When I find incorrect/missing info for song or album data when using iPhone I cannot edit to correct it. I have to this on my (desktop based) iTunes database. Poo!Apple does not participate in the forum. This is a user to user forum. If you want to pass that on to Apple, then you need to go to their feedback page HERE, and click on the appropriate link.
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How do I fix the following problem when I try to sync my iPhone music to my iMac? "Attempting to copy to disk Macintosh HD failed. You don't have enough access privleges for this operation."
Hey veo1,
I found the following information about that error message:
These messages occur if permissions are incorrect on your designated music folder or on a folder inside your designated music folder. Permissions are settings that determine who can read, write to, or execute a file or folder on your computer. Every file and folder on your hard disk has an associated set of permissions.
Look here for help in correcting the permissions on folders:
OS X:
Troubleshooting permissions issues in OS X
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2963
Sincerely,
Delgadoh -
Hi,
I recently found a way to add the "EXPLICIT" tag to songs in my iTunes Library (using Subler), and just presumed that the tags were not showing up in my iPhone Music because the phone simply did not have the function to display them.
However, in iOS 7, and seeing every song I have ever purchased, I noticed that the iPhone can indeed show whether songs are explicit or not (by marking them with a letter 'E').
Therefore I am just wondering why I can see whether songs are explicit on my Mac, yet not on my iPhone. I have tried removing the songs from my iTunes Library, syncing to remove them from my phone, re-adding them to my Library, and then re-syncing to put them back onto my phone, and the explicit tag still does not show up.
Please can you help me resolve this.
Thanks
iphone 5s - ios 7If you buy them as a Ringtone, then Itunes should automatically put them in Tones. It is a huge hassle and takes time most of us don't have to waste, when we purchased them as Tones and Apple told me they would automatically show up in Tones if purchased from Itunes Store. NOT! And we shouldn't have to google to find the answer. They should make that clear on Itunes store. Very disappoiinted in the Itunes upgrades that have caused so many problems.
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i cannot sync my iphone music, i had used my i phone on another pc, which died. Ive managed to save the hard drive and transfer stuff across. I ended up smashing my phone and could update all other stuff on restore but cant sync any music. It is all grey at the top of the screen. Ive re installed itunes and cleared all phone data. Now when i bought a song on this computer from the apple store, i have just been sent an email that says Your Apple ID, was just used to purchase (a song ) by a computer that had not been previously associated with that apple id. So do i have to tell apple now somehow i am using itunes on this pc, and if so how? Because i authorised it and it said this pc was one of 5 aujthorised. if anyone can be of assistance then great!
I'm having a similar problem. I had previously (over a year ago) purchased 2 episodes of Law & Order. Then about 2 months ago, I purchased the 3rd season of Sons of Anarchy. When I downloaded these episodes to my iPad, about a dozen full seasons of various shows popped up, too. No money was removed from my iTunes account & theses particular shows aren't in my iTunes library on my desktop. I've tried every which way to delete them from my ipad, but can't. I went to the Apple store & they suggested I contact expresslane.apple.com for help. I submitted my problem, via email Friday, as they asked, but have not received any response. Any suggestions on how to get rid of these "phantoms?".
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Upgraded to iTunes 11 and iOS7. Now music syncs incorrectly.
Yesterday I updated iTunes on my Windows 7 desktop to version 11.1.0.126 and iOS 7.0 on both my iPhone 4 and also my wife's. When I was done I had thought the process had gone perfectly, infact I was and still am very impressed by how easy the task was particularily considering how many changes there are. However, what did not go so well was the syncing of our music. My wife and I listen to very different types of music and I do not necessarily want her Robin Thicke mixing with my Metallica, (or vice-versa). And having used iTunes and iDevices going way back, I am very proficient of using the features within iTunes to keep our music and playlists seperate. But after completing my update I discovered that while all of my music was infact on the device I also had many random songs and artists from our music library that I don't particularly want showing up when I hit 'shuffle'. For example, there are now a bunch of songs by Frank Sinatra and the Andrew Sisters of my iPhone that we downloaded from the iTunes Store to play at my grandmothers funeral. When looking at my iPhone's music tab within iTunes you can see thay all the artists that I want synced have boxes with checkmarks in them, as they should. But you can go through the songs on the iPhone while looking down the list in iTunes and see many artists on the iPhone even though the checkboxes in the iTunes music tab are empty, including artists, albums, and playlists. I have taken two steps I took to troubleshoot my problem. First was to check the box of a particular artist that I didn't want on my iPhone (yet it was), and sync, and then uncheck the box and sync again. The second step I took was to remove all of the music from the iPhone and one-by-one go through the lists rechecking boxes of the artists whose music I wanted synced to my iPhone. On this attempt, when I unchecked 'Sync Music' box under my iPhones music tab in iTunes, it removed all of my music and said there were zero songs on my iPhone. However launching the music app on the phone showed that all of the music that I wanted on my iPhone, and whose boxes I checked were infact gone. But all of the music that was thrown on randomly, such as my grandmother's funeral music was still on my iPhone. The data gauge at the bottom of the iPhone's summary tab even showed the data being taken up by this audio even though the music tab claimed there were zero songs. And of course when I synced the music that I actually did want on my iPhone back, it all transferred fine, but the random unwanted music is also still there. The same issue happened with my wife's iPhone 4 but in reverese, meaning that all of the music with a checkbox that is checked in the music tab in iTunes transfered correctly, however so did a random sampling of music that she does not want. I have double checked that 'Automatically fill free space with songs' is turned off. I assume my next option would be to restore an iPhone to it's factory defaults and try from scratch, but I'm wondering if the issue lies elsewhere seeing as the problem occured with both my iPhone and my wife's. I thought it might be wise ask for a little advice before trying that option.
I'll finish by saying that this is a minimal issue to me in relation to my warm feelings about the look and changes of not just the new iOS but of all the Apple products that I have ever owned. My roots go deep into the Apple ecosystem. These are all astonding innovations.
Sam Galbraithdiesel vdub, i use 11.1.1
solved the issue today. first sync with itunes, so all the stiff you bought on the mobile will be backuped.
1. uncheck sync music in itunes and sync. all the music will be erased from mobile device
2. check music player on the mobile device. just the unwanted songs will still be there
3. go on the iphone to settings, general, usage, music player. there is just a few mb from the remaining unwanted songs. swipeleft and erase the content. switch iphone off and on again
4. repeat step 2. there will be no data. otherwise repeat step 3
5. check sync music in itunes and sync. all the music will be back again but not the unwanted songs. -
How can I synch my ipod & iphone music (purchased from itunes on my old laptop) to my new laptop? I keep getting the same message on my itunes on my new laptop: " The ipod/Iphone is synched with another itunes library. An ipod/iphone can be synched with only one itunes library at a time. What would you like to do - Erase and Synch or Transfer Purchases?" What do I do?
A couple of other items:
1) I am guessing Apple does not keep a history of all my music purchases? As I did not have my entire library backed-up anywhere, and relying on the music I have on my ipod and my iphone as my only source of itunes music....I have lost over 500 songs!!!
2) I used to have an Apple account under another account name, and since have switched to a new account name. Is there anyway to find the history of purchases from my old Apple account name and transfer these over to my new account name and onto my new laptop?
I hope someone can help, I am having a very difficult time trying to obtain answers. AngieThe iphone/ipod is NOT a storage/backup device. Not maintaining a backup copy is a big mistake.
You can transfer itunes purchases from your iphone/ipod to your computer:
Authorize your computer for all accounts and then click File>Transfer Purchases -
How can i transfer my iphone music to a new computer?
I have a new work computer and I want to put my iPhone music in my iTunes on that machine, but it won't let me. Why???
iTunes includes an option to transfer iTunes content that was purchased/downloaded from the iTunes store from an iPod, iPad, or iPhone, but this is for iTunes content that was purchased/downloaded from the iTunes store only.
First you need to authorize the computer with your iTunes account with iTunes. With your iPhone connected at the iTunes menu bar go to File and select Transfer Purchases From - the name of your iPhone. -
How can I see my classical music sorted according to composers - individual works - performers ?
How can I see my classical music sorted according to composers - individual works - performers ? This is much more useful than sorting according albums.
I have tried using the Grouping tag, writing Composer - Work - conductor there. But if I make a smart playlist, showing only Genre: "classical" and sorting according to Grouping, I see a line for each part in every work: one line for each movement of Mahler's 4th Symphony performed by George Solti, for instance.
What I am looking for is a way so that there is ONE line for each PERFORMANCE, ie, one line for Mahler's 4th Symphony performed by George Solti, below that one line for Mahler's 4th Symphony performed by William Mackerras, and so on.
Anyone found the golden solution? :-)
Peter P.How can it be possible because the resoution of my video source is the same before and after conversion process ... thanks to my ADSL Box and my PS3 the video is ok ... not with ATV ...
Could you please give me the resolution I should have for my video in SD or HD720 ?
All my video have converted in 768x576 ...
Is there another way to convert my video for iTunes instead AVS Video Converter ?
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Error in the iphone music app iOS7 with dozens of empty genius playlists
Im getting an error in the iphone music app in iOS7 with dozens of empty genius playlists even tho genius is OFF in my account settings and genius playlists are not selected for syncing with my iphone 5. All apps, iTunes and iOS 7 are updated.
The option to turn off genius under STORE menu is no longer available in the latest version of iTunes 11.1.
Thanks.Love your comment:
"Oddly the option to Delete is, get this, under Save:"
LOL!!!!!!!!!
This is just nuts!
Whoever heard of hitting SAVE to DELETE something....Ha Ha Ha!!!
The lunitics are officially running the asylum.....who knows whet they will do next.
Design cars where you need to engage reverse to access drive.
Many thanks this worked for me and I would NEVER have found it without you.
I would NEVER have hit Save to Delete something...And I mean NEVER!
Maybe if I hit Cancel button below this text box, it will save the contents for me..... Unbelievable!!!
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