Make songs appear under a different artist

I'm real anal about the way my songs are named. For example, I would like the songs by Genesis to show up under under Phil Collins.
I want the correct artist to appear when the song is played (i.e., "Genesis") but I want the song to appear under "Phil Collins" when I select him from the list. I've tried changing fields such as grouping, album artists, etc., but can't seem to find the magic bullet.
Renaming the songs is out of the question. I just want the songs to appear under the artist I choose.
Please help me. This is driving me crazy.

I don't think you read Chris's post correctly or didn't understand. Rt click on a track and do a "Get info". Then click on the info tab. The third text box down says Album Artist. If this information is filled in then the album would be filed under that artist. It will still appear in the library as The Artist not the Album Artist.
I've used this for a BB King album. I didn't want to call it a compilation but I didn't want to lose what was in the Artist field. With the latest version of itunes, using the album artist allowed me to keep that album and all its tracks in one location.
Hope this helps.

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All my songs by certian artists don't appear under their names, but all their songs appear under 'all songs'

So when I search for a specific artist on my phone, say, Whitney Houston, I only see like 3 or 4 songs, but when I go to see all the songs on my iphone, all her other music is there.
I've checked my music on iTunes on my mac and I see that her name is spelled correctly for all songs and none are checked off with "skip when shuffling" or anything like that.
I've noticed the same issue for other artists too. My songs appear under all songs, but not always under their artist name.
What can I do so all my songs appear under their artist name?

There are usually two things that contribute to songs not appearing under Artist on the iPod, both due to information either in or missing from the Get Info>Info tab against the song in iTunes. 1) the song has no album name associated with it or 2) the song is marked as part of a compilation.
If tracks are missing an Album name in the Info tab, this information needs to be filled in. The no album one is a bit quirky as the songs will appear under certain circumstances (for instance I read somewhere that if you have at least two tracks with different album names the rest will appear), however the simplest remedy is just add None or Miscellaneous to all the blanks in place of a title. See this link for more detail: I don't see some of my songs when browsing by artist on my iPod
Also if the tracks are ticked in the Get Info>Info tab as part of a compilation, they will not appear under Artist on the iPod. Highlight a song in iTunes that you know is not appearing correctly on your iPod. Right click on it and choose Get Info and click the Info tab (alternatively choose Get Info from the File menu), if "Part of a Compilation" is marked untick it and afterwards update your iPod, you should find it now appears as normal. Setting "Compilations" on your iPod main menu prevents you getting lots of single artist entries when you load an album by various artists.

How do I get songs from certain artists to appear under the "Music → Artist

How do I get songs from certain artists to appear under the “Music → Artists” menu of my iPod if some of the artists songs have album information and some don’t?
For example, I might have a full album from an artist, and then a single track from the same artist, but without an album tag. When I go to “Music → Artist”, the single track without album information will be gone. The only way I can find the single track is if I go to “Music → Songs” and find it in there.
I have thousands of MP3s, and finding songs by artist is my preference. Is there any way I can get all tracks to appear under the Artists menu without having to add album information to every single track?

From what I understand (thanks to forum member PT for 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.
Providing the spelling for the artists is exactly the same of course.

Not all songs appear under each artist...?

I've noticed that on my iPod, if I have some songs without an album listed, they won't show up under that artist if there's songs there that are listed with an album under that same artist. And this only happens if there is only 1 album listed under that user. That sounds really confusing so I'll give an example.
I have a few songs from Savage Garden's "Affirmation" CD on my iPod. But I also have some from their self-titled album, but I didn't bother putting the album name in. When I look under Savage Garden on my iPod, it goes straight to Affirmation, and shows ONLY the songs from the Affirmation album, but nothing else.
Is there any way to change this?

This has been a known bug for quite some time now. Apple seems to not see it as a bug tho but anyways....
THe work around is to either put a album name to the tracks or mark all tracks in your library without an album name "Unknown Album" or whatever you want to put in that field.
Labeling all tracks in your library without an album name "Unknown" is the easy, quick thing to do as it can be done within one minute. You just goto the "Music" library, hit the "Album" header so everything in the library is organized from A to Z to "Blank album name". Roll down highlight the first track that has no album name. Roll down to the last track without a album name, hold shift then highlight it. This highlight everything between the first and last.
Now just rightclick hit "get info" type "Unknown" or whatever you wish in the "Album" field, then hit OK

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Songs aquired under 2 different Account Names

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You have to authorize for both accounts.
Sign out of the first account, then sign in using the 2nd account, in the itunes store.
Each purchase has the buyer's name encoded in it, so you are stuck having to remember the credentials of both accounts forever.
If you forgot what the other account name was, look on your old PC and right click > Get Info on one from the old account. You'll have to contact iTS support if you need the password....see the "email us" links embedded in this page
http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/store/email/

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Music Video artists appearing under Music on iPod

I have music videos on my iPod that display just fine, and they sort just fine, but the artists that are attributed with the videos are appearing under the Music > Artists section. This is either causing duplicate entries that lead to the same list of albums, or an entry without any albums.
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Songs listed under same artist in iTunes, but not on iPod!?

I have six songs with Marilyn Manson in iTunes; four of them are from the "Lest We Forget"-album. For the other two, I do not have any album-information.
In iTunes, all six songs are listed under Marilyn Manson. On my iPod, however, when I browse to Marilyn Manson, only the four songs from the "Lest We Forget"-album are listed. The other two songs are missing when I browse by artist. However, when I browse by song, the two songs are there all right. And when I play the songs, Marilyn Manson is listed as the artist.
Anyone experienced anything similar? I know this could be the case if the name of the artist is spelled differently for the different songs, but this is not the case here. No exstra spaces in the artistname, exactly the same spelling for all six songs. Still, my iPod is not able to list all songs correctly under the same artist... Any solutions?
cheers,
pj

nope, there is no "all albums". I do not actually get to choose any albums at all; the iPod just goes directly from Marilyn Manson to display all four songs in the "Lest We Forget"-album. Just like when you just have one album for an artist and iPod just skips the "choose album"-screen.
Anyway, seems like this is a bug and has been discussed before:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=442185&tstart=0

Songs listed under incorrect artist in Ipod (listed correctly in Itunes)

So I'm having an issue getting songs to appear under the correct artist.
The artist's name is 3lau. several of his songs are listed with him as the artist. Other list him as the Album artist. It is all grouped correctly on Itunes.
When i sync my ipod (nano 6th gen) I cannot find the artist "3lau" I find all his songs under "Porter Robinson." Porter robinson is never listed as an artist.
I've looked through the itunes listing of artists and excluding those artists that i do not have checked music, the list doesn't match what the ipod shows. Why? Is there a way to force them to match?
I'd email Apple support, but like most conceited worldwide companies you can't actually contact them for help. So i'm asking the nice people on the community site that do apple's work for free.
Thank you all.

Hi TheHairyBaboon!
I've got some information for you that may help you with this issue. You should check the "Group Compilations" setting on your iPod nano to see whether that option is on or off. More information on this setting can be found on page 16 of the iPod nano 6th generation User Guide:
manuals.info.apple.com/MANUALS/1000/MA1551/en_US/iPod_nano_6thgen_User_Guide.pd f
You can also find more information on compilation groupings and how to get them to behave the way you expect here:
Why aren't songs with the same album art grouped together?
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1468
Thanks for using the Apple Support Communities. Have a good one!
-Braden

Songs appearing as Artists and Albums???

I loaded one CD onto my Video iPod that arrived by mail today and I transferred it to my iPod..
But when I went to look at it..
I clicked into Artists and all the 13 songs appeared under that as if they were Artists..
I clicked Albums and it was the same way.
Nothing separating them.
Instead of having Runway 36 under artists.. it had all their songs instead...
Any reason why?
I went into preferenced and fooled around alittle trying to figure it out and I unchecked something that said, Load songs to Artists and Albums also..
And then I took the songs off and reloaded... and I still have the same problem..
sigh
Can you help me?
Dell Windows XP

greetings Stevornio, and welcome to the forums !
this tip come from TT2:
+To display all artists in the Artists menu on your iPod, even those who only appear on compilations, remove the ticks against both of the iPod Compilation menu items, i.e.+
+Settings > Main Menu > Music > Compilations+
+Settings > Music Menu > Compilations+
+Cover flow should remain the same, with all compilations albums listed at the right-hand end.+
+To display all artists in the Artists browser column in iTunes turn off the preference to Group compilations when browsing. Provided you have set the Album Artist field the albums should remain grouped together.+
you may also want to check these illustrated tips by TT2.
any help ?

Combine different artists into one album

I just downloaded O Brother, Where Art Tho? into my library. Each song is by a different artist and I want to combine all into one album. Same with Eric Clapton. He did one song with Blind Faith, one with Cream, etc and I want them all under 'The Cream of Eric Clapton' not under each group. How can this be done?

Is this in iTunes?
There is a separate discussion group for iTunes.
In iTunes, select the album and Get Info.
Check the box that says, "Compilation".
The album will show under the artist heading "Compilations".

Songs don't appear under their artist in the 'artists' menu.

I've updated my Ipod to find that when I go into the 'artists' menu to look for my songs they are not all there, some are missing, even though they all defnitley have artist names attached to them in Itunes. I can get to them through the 'songs' menu and 'album' menu, but they do not appear under their artists.
e.g
I added the 'Blink 182' self titled album and the only songs that appear under the artist 'Blink 182' are 'The Fallen Interlude' and 'Asthenia'. The other songs on the album did not appear. However I can access the other songs seperately through the 'songs' menu and also through the 'album' menu.
But Its really frustrating not being able just to go into 'artists' menu and access all my songs from that artist like I used to be able to do.
Does anyone know how to fix this?
Thanks for reading
Craig Fraser

Hmmm, your situation is a little different than the bug I know about. Here is the bug I know of...
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=2926406#2926406
Perhaps it is somehow related to yours.
Patrick

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