ITunes sorting album issue

Hey guys,
I had an android so when it came to copying music I just drag and dropped my mp3 folder and all was sweet. But if I want my album to look neat I have to go into every single folder and id3 tag them all, is there any way around this and just resort to file path as its structure?
I've included a pic to illustrate what I'm trying to say, I don't just want to have to do that process every fricken folder I have it is a huge pain in the butt
Whats even stranger is I have to change Album AND Album Artist in order for them to be grouped together as one album.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v316/casmira/ssitunes_zps96c3ae68.png

Generally setting a common Album title and Album Artist will fix things.
For deeper problems see Grouping tracks into albums.
You may find it easier to use the old version of Get Info which you can get to by holding down alt/option as you right-click > Get Info.
tt2

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In the grid view, my library lists albums multiple times if there are various artists on the same album. I have tried to reset my view options (Sort Albums, By Title) but cannot "uncheck" the By Artist option. I am very irritated and at my wits end! Does anyone have a solution for this?

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ITunes sort 'Album by artist/year' problems

I've been having problems sorting _some_ albums. I'll give you a specific example:
I rip Simon and Garfunkel's 'The Concert in Central Park' which has 19 tracks. I want them to play in continuous mode, and in order.
I show track number in the columns, make sure all the tracks are of the same album and artist and I don't specify and sort options.
Now I click on the column header 'Album by Artist/Year' and I see that track 16 is first followed by 18, 19 then 1,2,3, etc.
I'm not sure why 16,18 and 19 are out of order, but they are and I don't know what other field it is using to apply this sort order since I've turned off the sort fields. I should say that I think the sort fields are turned off since I selected all tracks, hit command-I and made sure that the artist and album are the same, then went over to the sorting tab and selected each checkbox and made sure that the field was blank. Clicked on OK, then went into each track one at a time and verified that the general info and sort info were as I specified.
If I change the sort column to be just 'Album' then it sorts correctly - I think that the year is messed up, so I add the year column to the display and see that it is 1982. I click on the year and the sort is just fine. I set it back to 'Album by Artist/Year' and the same bizzare sort shows up. The same mis-sort shows with 'Album by Artist' so I do a check on the artist name (even looking for leading or trailing spaces - nothing).
I could probably delete the album and re-rip it, but I would rather find out why the sort is messed up so I can correct this problem if/when it shows up again. I'm aware that I have a few other albums with similar problems.
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Reply to my own question.
In the sidebar a similar question was asked (if I could learn how to post the right question in the first place I probably would have found it).
I reset the disc number then the tracks showed up in the correct sort order. I'm pretty sure that the tracks had disc number 1 of 1 before, now they just have _ of _ (blank of blank).

ITunes preorder album issue

I preordered an album but it hasn't come through. I then bought it and it says purchased but I can't access it. Does anyone know how to fix this?

Hi Perky67,
Thanks for visiting Apple Support Communities.
You may want to first make sure you're currently signed into the iTunes Store and that your computer is authorized to play content from your account.
To sign in on your computer:
Use your Apple ID with the iTunes Store
Open the latest version of iTunes.
Choose Store > Sign In.
Enter your Apple ID and password and click Sign In.
Click Review when asked to review your information.
Enter your billing information.
Click Continue after you enter your credit card and billing information. You can remove or edit your credit card information at any time. Learn more about updating your iTunes Store account information.
See this article for the steps to authorize your computer to play iTunes purchases:
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iTunes Store: About Pre-orders
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht5714
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Sorting /Grouping Issue: Single Artist Compilation Album Doesn't Group

iTunes 8 Sorting / Grouping Issue
EXAMPLE
• Album: Essential Willie Nelson
• There are 22 songs on this Disc
• 19 of them are labelled "Willie Nelson" in the artist field
• 3 of them are lebelled "Willie Nelson Feat. Waylon Jennings" in the artist field
PROBLEM
• Album will not stay grouped together when in the standard "Sort by Artist" in Grid View. A very legitimate expectation to be able to have Willie's name listed along with his pals in the artist field and have them grouped together in one album within Willie's albums section. 19 songs group within one album in the Willie Nelson section and the other 3 are placed separately either in the compilation section or as separate albums within the regular artists grid view.
I've read most if not all postings that suggest solutions but no matter what... they don't work. The only way that I know to work is to strip out all other names and leave only "Willie Nelson" in the Artist field. All other sorting and grouping options don't work for this issue... I've tied every combination. My opinion is that this is just a limitation at this time and there is no solution until future updates. I don't want a cheezy work-around either, that's very "unApple like". I assume it to be fixed in future updates.
Bueller... Bueller?
Anyone?

There's a few other "goodies" I have found also but haven't had time to check out.
If you have songs not in iTunes that you want to add to iTunes in a different format than the song is in...
(This is carried over from at least 7.4)
Set the Importing prefs to what you want the new file to be.
Hold the Option key and go to menu Advanced and select *Convert selection to* AAC (or whatever is in the Import prefs}.
This will add it to iTunes in the new format.
Previously, you had to Import the file, change the prefs, go to Advanced - *Convert selection to*, convert the file, then delete the original from iTunes.
This is new...
In iTunes 8, go to to File - > *Show duplicates*. (moved from View menu).
Now hold Option and go to to File and it now displays *Show exact duplicates*.
Don't know what it means by *exact duplicate* though.

Sorting albums by year doesn't work properly in new iTunes 11.

Sorting albums by year doesn't work properly in new iTunes 11.
See the screenshots below.
There's a kind of albums. Double CD in one set. Queen "The Works" 1984, for example.
First CD is the original release and the second one is bonus CD for the original album's reissue in 2011.
iTunes 10 took year info from track 1 of CD1 for "sort album by year" function.
But new iTunes 11 takes the highest value of year in the album's track list.
Same things with additional bonus tracks for the album's reissues.
See the screenshot of Madonna "Like a Virgin" 1984 album.
So my collection is in a huge mess after last update to iTunes 11.
It's a big problem. And must be solved to the next update.

I noticed this too, and I think it gets even more complicated when you think about the difference between how you want Re-releases to be ordered: based upon the intial release year (like you have described above), and Compilations or Greatest Hits: where you want them to be sorted by when the albums were actually released. iTunes 11 seems to just grab the date of the most recently released song on an album. This worked fine for 2/3 of my Compilation albums, because they just happened to be released the same year as the latest song on each album.
Compilation example (released: 2003, latest song on album: 1969):
This is what I submitted to Apple as feedback:
This issue is actually aimed at iTunes 11, but 10.6.3 is the most recent version number I could select in the drop-down menu.
As with normal albums, iTunes 11 puts a release year next to "Various Artists" in Albums > Expanded View (and also in the Songs and Genre Tabs). However, iTunes seems to produce this number by looking for the last released song on the album. This has worked fine for 2/3 of my compilations, but the third one is a 60s compilation released in 2003. It displays "1969" next to "Various Artists" and there are no tags available in Get Info to change this. This also happens to greatest hits collections.
When selecting View > View Options > "Artist" then "Year" in Album view, and View > View Options > "Year" in Artist and Genre view, the above issue causes compilations, greatest hits collections, and re-releases (Although users may want re-releases to be listed in order of original release) to be sorted in the wrong order.
Considering iTunes 11 has added this feature (in previous iTunes versions, "Year" would only appear next to individual tracks), it is a shame an "Album Year" or "Sort Album Year" hasn't been added to the Get Info options.
As is, the only solution I can think of is to change all track years to the release year of the album.
I imagine this might be a bit of an edge case, and not something the majority of iTunes users would care about, but then again, I could imagine a fair number of musicphiles wanting control over this metadata.
Message was edited by: folo1988, info added.

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ITunes sorting question - album art

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I currently have my itunes setup whereby it shows the album art for each album (this is the third possible viewpoint, of the four that you can select).
The trouble is, some of my albums have multiple singers in them (e.g compilation albums).
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Setting the Album Artist will fix most of the problem, but for more information see my article on Grouping Tracks Into Albums in particular the topic One album, too many covers.
tt2.0

ITunes and iPod album issue

Can anybody tell me why in iTunes it sorts albums disregarding 'the'. For example the album 'the man who' is sorted under 'm'. But while this is sorted like this in iTunes, on my iPod it counts 'the' as 't'. This is really annoying on my ipod because i have so many albums and i want to get to them quickly. I have looked over all the settings on my ipod too. Can anyone help?
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Hi, Rowan.
I was about to say That's odd when I checked my - admittedly antiquated - iPod and realized that's the case for me as well.
I suppose I hadn't realized because generally I don't access my music by Album on the iPod.
I realize that's not a solution but it leads me to suggest a workaround. Perhaps you could trying accessing the music on your iPod via the Artists entry on the Music menu (Music > Artists > artist's albums) and see if that's a more efficient method than getting bottlenecked by all the The albums under the Albums entry.
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We all know the Music.app since iOS 7 (for most of us) as been a disaster. Due to the expanded view of the albums for artist, it's a PITA for people whom have artist with even 3 or 4 plus albums. For me, I love E-40 and have 16 of his albums.
My concern is the organization of the albums he's released since 2012, on my iPhone (top to bottom in the music app) it's organized like this (and it drive's me crazy). I have included the release date of the albums but it's not actually in the album title, it's just for reference.
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or even like this, which might make or sense.
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Sort Artist and Sort Album tags don't update

Having spent a lot of time over the years getting the metadata in my iTunes library just right, I've noticed a frustrating problem when it comes to iTunes Match.
I make use of 'Sort Artist' and 'Sort Album Artist' tags so that my library is sorted by artist surname (eg. Lennon, John).
This always worked correctly when I syncronised my music via iTunes, but since switching over to iTunes Match this has become problematic.
When I initially signed up for iTunes Match, my Library moved over correctly - honouring the sort order tags that I had added. However, When I add NEW music to the library and subsequently change the sort tag, the change does not propegate to iTunes Match (Though it does appear correct in iTunes on my Mac). So the result is now a mixed sort order on my iOS devices - some by first name and some by second.
Under iOS 5.0 and iTunes 10 I used to be able to get around this with a little forethought - I would turn iTunes Match OFF on the Mac before adding any new songs, then I would edit the tags and then switch Match back on. This would rescan the library and add the new tracks to the cloud complete with correct metadata.
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Any help would be appreciated.

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ITunes Music Folder Issue: Won't Read External Folder?

Hi There. Just bought a new Mac Mini and installed a time machine backup on to it to mirror it with my latest laptop settings. So far, everything has been breezy, except for iTunes. I have an external drive with about 200GB of music/movies that I want to use with the Mini. When in advanced iTunes preferences, I change the iTunes Music Folder location to that of the external drive and click "Change".
I get no errors or anything, then iTunes tells me it is updating the library, but it is still the same old (internal) library. For the life of me, I cannot get it to change it to see my external. Any advice? I thought it might be an XML issue, so I moved the XML file but it didn't change anything. Is the "Add to Library" option my next best bet? I'm ok with that as long as it doesn't actually add the files to my internal hard drive and keeps all of the items sorted correctly. Is the last case scenario to reset iTunes? How would one do that? Any advice appreciated!

When in advanced iTunes preferences, I change the iTunes Music Folder location to that of the external drive and click "Change".
Okay. iTunes will use that folder for everything in the future. Anything added to iTunes will put into that folder if you have *Copy to iTunes music folder when adding to library* ticked.
If there is any previous items in iTunes, it will continue to look for them where they were.
I thought it might be an XML issue, so I moved the XML file but it didn't change anything.
The .xml is generated by iTunes simply for other applications. iTunes does not use it at all.
Is the "Add to Library" option my next best bet?
It's the only option since this is how you add files to iTunes (along with Import when RIPping from CD).
If you want to have the items in the new location in iTunes, you need to File -> Add to library and select the location on the external.
I'm ok with that as long as it doesn't actually add the files to my internal hard drive
See 1st comment in this response.
and keeps all of the items sorted correctly
Depends.
The sort in iTunes is whaichever column you are selected on.
If you are talking about the "sort" in the Finder/on the HD, then iTunes sorts by Artist/Album/Song name. If you do not want this, you need to to uncheck *Copy files to iTunes music folder when adding to library* and uncheck *Keep iTunes music folder organized*.

Sort artist issue/bug

A few months ago, I went through my library & reorganized using the "sort artist" field to alphabetize by last name the artists in my library. When I did this, I arranged it so that albums with the artist 'Ryan Adams' and albums with the artist 'Ryan Adams & the Cardinals' both showed up under the artist heading in the browser as 'Ryan Adams' (and alphabetized as 'Adams, Ryan'), for example. Earlier today, I decided that I want the albums with the artist 'Billy Bragg & Wilco' to show up as Wilco under the artist heading, so I entered 'Wilco' in the "sort artist" field of the Billy Bragg & Wilco songs. This caused the B.B. & W songs to alphabetize as 'Wilco,' but also caused all of my wilco songs to list under the artist heading in the browser as 'Billy Bragg & Wilco'.
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You can't have identical Sort Artist fields for non-identical Artist fields — that causes iTunes to get confused. I would suggest using the Sort Album Artist field instead; there is no issue with having the same data there for different Album Artists.

How can I sort albums by album artist while keeping compilations together?

Argh, I'm getting a bit exasperated. Basically I just want to be able to scroll through cover flow and see all my albums with one cover representing each album, with all the compilations near the end under "V" for various. Surely most people would want to scroll through their albums in this way??
So I've gone through and added all the album artist info, which has worked fine for the artist albums. But for all the "Various" ones, instead of doing the logical thing and grouping them together by album, iTunes orders these all by track artist. There doesn't seem to be any secondary sort function..
I'm always defending Mac and Apple products for their logical applications and ease of use, and now I feel let down.. If there's a way around this please let me know! Thanks,
Malinna

The trouble you're encountering is that iTunes sorts first by Album Artist, then by Artist. Thus, within each Album Artist, you'll get multiple Artist clumps.
You want to sort "Album by Artist". This will, first, strip out all your compilations and sort them to the end of your library, then sort using the hierarchy Album Artist (or Artist if there is none) > Album > Disc # > Track #. Click the Album column header until Album by Artist is displayed. (You can also choose Album by Year, which will sort albums chronologically within Album Artist.)
If you want to keep albums together, you'll need to sort on an Album column; other columns are bound to clump things by whatever you're sorting on.

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Short Version: In iTunes, my albums show up in proper alphabetical order when I'm using custom Sort Album tags, but in my iPad, a few of the albums show up out of order. Anyone have any ideas?
The Long Version: I listen to my music almost exclusively by genre--when I sit down to listen, I don't usually know exactly who or what album I want to hear, but I know the kind of music I'm in the mood for. Since my iPad doesn't give me any decent way to sort by genre (I know it's in the Music app, but it doesn't fit the bill for me), I went through my iTunes library and changed the "Sort Album" tag for each track to be the genre, followed by the album name. So, all the tracks from the "Superman" soundtrack have a Sort Album tag of "Film Score - Superman 1"; the tracks from "The Right Stuff" have a Sort Album tag of "Film Score - Right Stuff, The", and so on. I used a script from Doug's AppleScripts to automate the retagging (though in my troubleshooting, I've redone these by hand as well.)
And this all works just fine in iTunes--albums show up in alphabetical order by the Sort Album tag. But when I put all of these tracks on my iPad (3rd gen 64GB Wi-Fi only, just updated to 6.0.1 but the problem was present in 6.0), I find that a few albums--"The Abyss", the three "Back to the Future" scores, "Rudy", "SpaceCamp", and "WarGames"--all sort alphabetically at the end of the F's. They've all got the same tag structure ("Film Score", space-hyphen-space, album title) as the other albums tagged as "Film Score" in Sort Album. I've tried blowing out all of the tags and redoing them by hand with no luck. Changed the cover art, renamed them, everything I could think of. If I change the tag from "Film Score - Abyss" to "Falm Score - Abyss", the "Abyss" title does move to the head of the list in my iPad, but once I change it back, it drops back down to the end of the list, and to the exact same location it'd been in before. I even tried exporting one of the albums, saving all of the tracks as new files through my sound editor, then reimporting them as a "new" title; when I added the Sort Album tag, it still sorted wrong.
I've checked this in the iPad Music app, as well as my primary music player, Track 8; both show the same sorting problem. I've changed every single tag I could find on these tracks, with no luck. Again, these titles do indeed sort correctly in iTunes; "The Abyss" shows up at the top of my Film Score list, but in iPad, it's at the very bottom. Anyone have any ideas as to why iPad would sort "Film Score - Abyss" after "Film Score - Willow"?
(For the record, each time I've changed tags in an attempt to fix this, I have been making sure to remove the tracks from my iPad, then restore the new versions; I have iTunes set to only sync checked items, so when I change tags, I uncheck the tracks I've modified, sync my iPad and watch the tracks disappear from it, then recheck the tracks and resync and watch the files copy back over.)
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