"iPod" album sorting

Has anyone figured out how to sort albums chronologically by "Artist" in an iPod. I tried sorting albums in iTunes which works great, but as soon as you put the artist in your iPod it defaults that artist's albums back to alphabetical. I know that the software in the iPod is not iTunes, but it seems that if the artist sort tag carries over then the album sort tag should as well.

I put the year in brackets at the beginning of the album title and number the songs on all my music - Goes back to when I had a Zen that wouldn't even play the album in order. This keeps everything in chronological order, but kind of screws me when it comes to using things like fetch album art or lyrics.
If chronological is more important to you (like it is to me), you might try this. Besides, I'm also picky about added the correctly sized artwork.

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Why does my new iPod touch sort music by album artist, instead of song artist?

I recently go an iPod touch 4th Gen. My old iPod sorted music by song artist, but the new one sorts it by album artist. My problem is this: There is an album called Re:generation. It was a project in which 5 DJs each made 2 songs for the album. So I enter the info for each song, but my iPod sorts it by album artist, which is listed as "Re:generation". I wanted the songs to be sorted by the 5 artists that actually made the songs, so there would be 2 songs under 5 different artists. If I wanted to listen to the whole album, I could press the album tab, scroll down to "Re:generation" and play the whole album. This all worked fine on my old iPod, but now it doesn't.
My first solution was to change the album artist on each song to the artist that created that song. But then by iPod list 5 different albums, so I can't listen to the album as a whole if I wanted to. My next solution was to erase the album artist info for each song, but now none of the ten songs can be found under the artist tab. I have to go over to the album and pick which song I want to hear.
If you don't understand, here's an example. 2 of the songs on the Re:generation album are by Pretty Lights. I want to be able to select Pretty Lights under the artist tab, choose all songs, shuffle, and have those 2 songs play at some point. But I would also like to be able to got to the album tag, select Re:generation, and play all 10 songs in order. However, the new setup won't allow me to do this.
So I'm wondering if I can fix the problem by somehow editing the iPod's sort settings (if possible), or reverting back to the old system (if possible), and why Apple even changed the system in the first place. It seems pretty stupid to me, and I honestly see no reason to change what I thought was a perfect system.

wow, i really don't have time to read all that, but i'll give you an hint when you're in music library click "More" and then "Composers" i think that's what you're lookin for otherwise just ignore it

IPhoto  iPod Album sync issues

Has anybody else noticed that iPhoto albums do always make it to the iPod, but that the album sort order doesnt? All albums SmartAlbums and regular, that I have created since the initial iPod transfer, have wound up at the bottom of the iPod album list. This is most frustrating, as I prefer the sorted list I have in iPhoto, which usually puts the newer ones on the top. The longer I scroll through the albums, the more cautious non-iPod users become (I meet many who are otherwise quite impressed with the mobile family photo album).
My only plan to correct this is to restore my iPod.
Any and all help will be appreciated.
Thanks,
Mike
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- If a PC try:
Removing and Reinstalling iTunes, QuickTime, and other software components for Windows XP
or
Removing and reinstalling iTunes and other software components for Windows Vista, Windows 7, or Windows 8
- Verify that the songs play in iTunes on your computer
- Try another cable and USB port
- 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/delete all music and resync
To delete all music go to Settings>General>Usage>Storage>Music>Tap edit in upper right and then tap the minus sign by All Music
- 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: Back up and restore your iOS device with iCloud or iTunes
- Restore to factory settings/new iOS device.

1st - itunes downloaded to my ipod albums that are all fractured, compilation albums are seperated.This should not have happened but itunes felt it knew better. I do not like it.

1st - itunes downloaded to my ipod albums that are all fractured, compilation albums are seperated.This should not have happened but itunes felt it knew better. I do not like it.
2nd - While trying to fix it, itunes made all albums and artists unknown
3rd - While trying to get an answer I am unable to contact anyone or even send an email requesting an answer.
4th - While trying to use the "fast lane" i ran into trying to find the product S/N, I went to my account and it was not there. I tried to see it on the back of the Ipod but had to find a magnifying glass to even read it.
5th -- The we will get back to you really ****** me off
6th -- I have wasted 2 hours to fix something that should not have happened and the situation is worse than when i started
7Th --- Itunes management of songs is terrible and there are NO instructions and even worse no support
8th ---- Apple is going down the toilet because the products are good, not great, and the itunes instructions are non existent
9th --- to even suggest i pay for product support is insulting and a sign that apple is desperate
10th -The suggestion for online feedback is this; BE ON-LINE SUPPORT, NOT WHATEVER YOU CONSIDER IT TO BE NOW.

I agree with stevejobsfan - (0123).
However, if what you actually want to do is to fix/sort out your problem, why no try posting a question on that subject?
For starters - you can re-name the tracks in your iTunes library, so it is possible to correct the changes that you must have made that mean that songs are now "unknown artists and albums."

Album sorting problem?

I have an iPod nano, believe it's first generation, that I got in June 2006. It's always worked fine, but recently I've been having a problem with album sorting. I prefer not to sort my songs into albums at all, but a few do have albums listed. But now when I look up music by artist, rather than displaying "all" and have the album(s) listed below, it automatically goes to the album.
For example, I had one Taylor Swift song with an album listed, and all her other songs without. When I go to her name, it automatically goes to that one song, and I can't see the others without albums. THe other songs can still be found under "songs" on my ipod. When I delete the album, it's fixed, but I really don't want to do that. Anyone know how to fix this?

Once you add a second album name for that artist even for a single song, ALL the rest of the songs should now show up under that artist, even those without album names.

How do I print a list albums sorted by artist

iTunes 12.1.2.27 Windows 7 SP 1 (64 bit)
I would like to generate a list of albums in my library sorted by artist. This used to work fine before I upgraded to iTunes 12 last fall by using File > Print > Album listing / Theme: List of albums.
Since the iTunes 12 upgrade the list is generated sorted by album title and not by artist. I have my View options set to Albums - Sort by Artist them by Title.
Even though the theme clearly states sorted by artist, it generated a list sorted by album title. How do I fix this so that it generates what the theme description states?
Thanks for your help and insight in restoring the old print behavior.

Hi ed,
I am on iTunes 12.1.2.27 ... but what I get is albums sorted by title in both the preview and the output file. This behavior has been consistent since I upgraded to iTunes 12 ... with iTunes 11 it did work like what you are seeing. I do think it is some sort of bug ... iTunes 12 was not the smoothest software upgrade I have see. I did run into a lot of lock-ups and trashing of album art in the 12,0 releases but this latest release (12.1.2.27) seems to be have taken care of most of those issues.
I might look into doing a complete removal of iTunes and then try a new clean reinstall but I was hoping that maybe there was some setting, or config file parameter, that might fix this..
Thanks for your response.

[iOS][Your Music] Album sort by artist is out of order

After the 3.4.0.684 update for IOS, the album sort by artist is out of order. It looks like the sort is only factoring in the first letter in the sort as seen below. Can the old sort methodology be put back in.

Updated: 2015-07-08

Album sort order missing

I want to use 'Recently Added' in album view while hiding all rated albums.
I do not understand why the new 'album' sort order is restricted to only a few fields, while the 'songs' sort order doesn't have the two-level; sorting that the album sort order has. Both of these views have half the functionality I want.

Figured it out. I added "Various Artists" in the Album Artist field for every track and it then sorted them all together.

[solved] ncmpcpp - album sort?

Have recently set up a headless server for my multimedia needs. Since I control it via ssh I had to install a console music player and have decided on mpd/ncmpcpp. One thing that bugs me is that the Media Library sorts with Artist as the first criteria. Even in the 2-column view where Album takes precedence, it is still Album (sorted by artist), which is kind of silly since I can get that already in the 3 column view. And so it is difficult to access my albums which are compilations of many artists. Is there any way I can have "Album" and see all the songs in that album in the next column?
Or failing which are there any other console players I can use?
Last edited by stryder (2011-08-13 13:12:00)

stryder wrote:
And so it is difficult to access my albums which are compilations of many artists. Is there any way I can have "Album" and see all the songs in that album in the next column?
Or failing which are there any other console players I can use?
Thats what the albumartist tag is for. And ncmpcpp supports this one just fine. just add tag "albumartist = Soundtrack" (for example) on those albums.
to make ncmpcpp sort media library using this tag, hit ` and then A for albumartist.
**edit** also make sure, to add the albumartist tag to the supported ones in mpd.conf
Last edited by Rasi (2011-08-13 08:24:50)

Album sort processing made easy...... please???

How can I have my albums sort like when the "songs" tab is selected i.e.( all together) .... under the albums tab all my albums are divided into each song on that album......... = A mess. If all my albums are neatly stacked under songs how can I copy that form to "Albums"...... hope you ge my drift?
I dont have the time to check out every album and song to have all same info so that they all "collect" together?
Save me some late nights please

Looks like a good enhancement to me.
As these forums officially are not read by Apple (except from moderators), you could mail your feature request using this page:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunesapp.html
The 'Provide iTunes Feedback' menu item in the iTunes menu of iTunes brings you to the same page.
M

The new update limits album sorts to album by artist year and is too limiting. How do I get the standard sort by album alone

The new update limits album sorts to album by artist year and is too limiting. How do I get the standard sort by album alone?

Click the heading of the Album column to cycle between Album, Album by Artist and Album By Artist/Year.
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Ipod classic sorts album other than in itunes

i sorted all my albums in itunes as i like it by album interpret. On Ipod this order is ignored. I wanted all the albums for the Kids at the beginning of Cover Flow.
How do i change the order of albums on the ipod?

hi Jeff. Since you know all very well, one last question since i just started using i-tunes and i-pod.
In i-tunes i sorted a lot of stuff like DJ-Sets, or music from other sources than CD by album artist. That works well.
My I-Pod Classic syncs an is saying me "Unknown Artist" or "Various Artists" for that albums and puts some to Compilations, some to different places. I want the DJ Sets at the same position as the published CDs for example.
Again, i have all that in i-tunes done already and it works.
For Example cannot move Cafe del to "C" on ipod, its always at the end at Various Artist...
Maybe not all wording correct since i use i-tunes and i-pod in german

Album Sort Order in iTunes vs iPod

WIth the newer Versions of iTunes, albums are sorted in alphabetical order ignoring the word "The". (i.e. On iTunes the following albums would be in this order: Sub Songs, The Super Songs, Suzy Music where on my iPod, the following albums would be placed in this order: Sub Songs, Suzy Music, The Super Songs lumping all "The" titles amongst the Ts.) Does anyone know why this sort feature is not the same on iPod AND iTunes? Please advise.
iBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.9) 14"

Sorting has become a complete mess. Though, it's quite logical from Apple to sort albums by ignoring the because it makes searching for albums a lot easier since there are numerous albums (and artists) beginning with that word.
But I guess that an answer to your question can only be given by an Apple engineer who makes iPod software.
from Apple's website
Seamlessly sync your iPod with iTunes – guess not, huh?!
PowerBook G4 (15-inch Aluminum) Mac OS X (10.4.9) 1.5 GHz, 1 GB RAM, ATI Mobility Radeon 9700, Combo, Mighty Mouse, iPod 30 GB

Albums sorted alphabetically by song title when searching on ipod classic

I understand that the default for the search feature is to sort songs within each result alphabetically - for instance, you go to "Search" type "Tool" and Select "Tool." Now you see a list of albums by the band, and you can select the one you want, but the songs are always sorted alphabetically by title. Please tell me that this can be changed! A lot of artists actually put thought into the arrangement of their albums (a big surprise, I know) and if I wanted something arbitrary like alphabetical order I would use this cool feature called "shuffle!" Thanks in advance.

Although the search utility will return artist names, why would you search for an artist name instead of selecting it directly from the Artist menu? The search utility seems much more applicable to searching for song names instead of +Show me all artists whose name begins with or contains 'Tool'.+
In any case, no you can't change the default sort order of search results. If you want to play songs in their album order, use the Artist or Album menu selection, not Search.

[SOLVED - well, sort of]Ipod album art -----

I know this topic has been explored fairly frequently in the past, but I just wanted to check in (what with amarok2, libgpod 0.7, etc) with the current state of getting album art onto an ipod. (Arch 64 here, by the way, if that makes a difference).
1. Amarok 1.4 - it used to transfer the art, but it doesn't seem to anymore. Everything else about it works the best of all these programs.
2. Amarok 2 - doesn't do album art or playlists (that I can see, at least) yet .... will keep on eye on this one.
3. Rhythmbox and banshee - I want to try them, but neither will recognize my ipod (2nd gen nano, mounted via pcmanfm to /media/ipod. I'm using openbox, with a hal rule to mount all ipods to /media/ipod)
4. Songbird - very promising, but no album art support yet and it's pretty chunky.
5. Exaile - It sees my ipod, but doesn't want to copy any music to it. It also crashes when I try to delete or edit a playlist on the ipod (exaile-bzr won't compile for me)
6. Floola - I really want to love this program because it does everything - photos, calendar, etc. But it's horribly unstable (both windows and linux versions) for me, trying it with multiple different ipods.
7. gtkpod - well, it works....slowly (we have about 6000 tracks in our collection)....weirdly....but I guess I'm stuck with it for now??
Please help with any fixes for #3 or any other ideas.
Thanks!
Scott
yes, yes, I know, the music is the key....album art really not THAT important in the big scheme of things thus amarok1 installed from AUR!
Last edited by firecat53 (2009-04-23 20:58:50)

I use albumart-qt to embed the covers in my songs.... then it should be independent from the way you transfer your music...

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