Missing Artist name in CD import

When importing CDs to Library why do some Artist's names not appear in Browser artist pane, even though Album will apppear in album pane ?? This happens across my 3 computers including Vista OS on one computer ?

Is this artists on compilation albums? In iTunes, if an artist is only on a compilation album, that artist name will not appear in the artist browser pane. However, if you then add an album by that artist - so the artist has an album of their own in your iTunes, then the artist will appear in the browser and when you select the artist, the album browser column will have the compilation album with their tracks as well.
Oh, and if your answer was "no, this is the "greatest hits album" by an artist, the chances are it's marked as *part of a compilation,* which it shouldn't be (because iTunes then thinks it's various artists!). Check this by selecting just one track from the album and clicking *File/Get Info.* On the info tab, is *part of a compilation* ticked on? If so, you need to change the whole album. Thing is though, when you select all the tracks on that album the *part of a compilation* is now on the Options tab as a drop-down menu.
Phil

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Missing Artist names in iPod under lookup but the song is there

I have all the approx 7,000 tunes on my LapTop that sync's into my iPod OK but there are some missing "Artist" names in my iPod when I lookup by Artist but the song is there in song lookup and it has the Artist name it the display.
Some answers to some questions, my helper's maybe asking themselves are............
I've loaded the songs into iTunes from the web as well as via CD's online with "Grace Notes" inputting song info also with me off line loading in songs from my internal and external hard drive. I have converted all songs that weren't under the option (create an ACC Version). My understanding this is this to create a .mp3 file within the iTunes Music Library Folder. I would then delete the originally song
Any help or questions for me so far?
Befuddled......

It could be that you have inadvertently imported these CDs into iTunes as part of a compilation. If so, the artists won't show in the artists menu on the iPod.
To check, highlight the tracks on one of the offending artists CDs in iTunes, right click and select "get info". This brings up a song info window, and by selecting "options" you can check if you have 'yes' in the box marked "part of a compilation".
If you have, select 'no' instead and click 'ok'. Do this with any CD that has this issue. This will alter the info in iTunes, and you should then connect your iPod and synchronize the changes.
The problem arises because the information contained on the Gracenote CD Data Base (where iTunes gets all it's album/artist/track info from), is sometimes incorrect. It can show CDs as compilations when in fact they are not.
You should also check that the songs have album name info in their ID tags.
See: Some songs don't show under artist on my iPod.
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.

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Same problem here. I think it happened when my computers updated my windows itunes to v12 without asking me.

Upgrade to 7.0.2 deletes artist name, Album sorting, importing files

Well, I use iTunes at work on a PC and it *****. I lost 90% of the artist name appearing in the Artist column. They show in Info for each song. How can I get them to show upm again. Also, on the PC version everytime I click Album it changes to Album by Artist, Album by Year, then to back to Album all of them in alphabetic descending order. I no longer can reverse the order. Finally, I have tried to import a few folders of music using the file method and itunes just links to the folder. None of this absurd behaviors happen on my macs nor do I ever want them to ever do it. Apple either send post a work around or upgrade and fix these annoying problems. These discussion threads are too bureacratic and time consuming to read.

These discussion threads are too bureacratic and time consuming to read.
Can't argue with you there, Stephen. I'm going to get the heck out of here ... ; - )
But before I do, I can address one of your issues.
Also, on the PC version everytime I click Album it changes to Album by Artist, Album by Year, then to back to Album all of them in alphabetic descending order. I no longer can reverse the order.
If you click on the words Album, Album by Artist, Album by Year, the column cycles through those headings but if you click on the actual arrow at the top, the heading remains the same and the arrow changes direction.

Missing artists name

After I downloaded songs from a cd it didn't show the artist or the song name. It just showed track #.
PLEASE HELP!!!

If you are referring to iTunes not showing artist/album/track info, you must be connected to the internet in order for iTunes to access the Gracenote CD Data Base where all this info is stored.

Importing song/artist names to iTunes using the file or folder names

hello,
a friend of mine put all of his tracks onto a CD and gave me the CD to import to my library.
When I did this I noticed a convenient behavior which I have not been able to reproduce. iTunes automatically ID'ed both the song and artist name and separated them in iTunes to their corresponding columns.
when i do this, both artist and song name are lumped together into the song name column and i have to separate and cut and paste them out.
My friend put the albums in folders then a sub folder for artists and then inside that folder there were the song files.
How did he do it? I think it has something to do with using dashes or forward slashes or folders in the song file names, but I'm not sure how it works.

Hello ,
For iTunes :
Created a copy of the files in iTunes folder .
But before you delete the files from the desktop ,
I suggest you check .
Finder > music > iTunes > iTunes Media
For iPhoto :
I do not use this software so I do not know but
I can assume it's the same thing as iTunes .

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Certain artist names are missing from the browse window. The songs are there in the library, but the artist's name is not displayed. Some are copied off my CDs, others purchased. I looked at the xml file, and could not see any obvious difference between songs where the artist is displayed and ones where it is not. Has anyone else had this problem? It there a way to fix it? I've had this problem since 7.0 or 7.1
Thanks...
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In Itunes, highlight and right click on the 1st song by the artist. Then go to 'Get Info'. uncheck the 'part of a compilation' box. Then simply click on the 'next' box, and apply the uncheck change to each song by the artist. Then re-sync your Ipod, and the artist name will magically appear in your browse section!
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Artists names are missing

Had a 30 G iPod and iTunes installed on my computer. All is well. Got a new 80 G iPod as a gift and synched iTunes stuff already in my computer to it (mostly audio). PROBLEM: In the menu, alot of the artists names are missing but all af the songs can be found in the songs menu. QUESTION: How do I get the artist names to be listed in the menu?

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.

Artist name does not appear in artist list but album name is in album list - Ipod Classic 160gb

For an album I have imported onto my iPod from iTunes, the album name is in the Album list but the Artist name is not on the Artist list. I have tried deleting the album from the iPod and re-adding from ITunes but the same result. It is a single artist album, so the artist name is exactly the same for each track; all the tracks are there. Big nuisance as I use artist name a lot to find specific albums.

ecb31 wrote:
this did not work for me,
Possibly because your problem (you say) was the album name. The original post was about the artist name and is therefore a different problem.
ecb31 wrote:
...I had to fill in the Album for each song, then it showed on my ipod, for ones I did ot know, I just put bloody apple.
Huh?
Let me get this right, you had lots of songs without the album name in them, so you filled in the album name yourself - if you knew the album name. If you didn't know the album name, you then entered the same text on all the rest of those songs. So now, you must have a lot of songs all on the same album, even though they're not meant to be - and - you've put text in to a lot of your songs that will remind you forevermore, of just how unhappy you are.
Well! &
My question to you is; where did you get the songs from, that they came without the correct information in them?
If you imported them from a CD, iTunes will go and get the information for you.
If you bought the songs from the iTunes Store, or another music retailer, the information is in the digital file that you purchased.
How therefore, does so much of your music appear to be incomplete?
Am I missing something, or have you simply failed to explain the porblem properly?

Audition CS6 Changing Artist Names on Burned CD's

I am using Auditon CD6. I am importing mutliple songs from mutliple artists. I then match the volumes of the songs. Then I drag the songs into the CD list and arrange them. After burning the CD when I put the CD into a CD player it moves the artist names up one song. So in other words the first song has the artist from the second song listed wth it. The second song has the third artist listed with it. And so on. This has occured several times on different CD's and different artists during different sessions.Any ideas?

Sorry, risto. I should have been more precise. Though I did goof by including Windows in my note above. In plain ol' DOS, that list of characters is true, along with a couple I missed. But the Windows Joliet file system allows more of the old characters. Here's a now complete and proper list.
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? [ ] / \ = + : ; " , * |
In the Windows Joliet file system, these characters are not allowed.
? / \ : " * |
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Artist names do not show up on my idpod

When I sync my itunes to my ipod, some of the artist names do not show up in the Menu for artists. The music is on there, but the listing does not show.

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 is incorrectly marked as part of a compilation (and you have Compilations enabled on the iPod) or 2) the song has no album name associated with it.
if the tracks are ticked in the Get Info>Info tab as part of a compilation (as described in the link above), 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. If you are using iTunes 8, in the the multiple items info box the compilations setting is in the "Options" tab. Setting "Compilations" on your iPod main menu prevents you getting lots of single artist entries when you load an album by various artists.
Also if the 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

How do I create albums in iTunes, change song names/artist names, etc!!??

Ack! Please help me! I am a total dummy and I have no clue how to use my iPod video 30GB. First, I connected iTunes and all my old songs (previously dl from kazaa and limewire) were transferred over, only since the sharers spelled the artist names differently, I have Led Zeppelin (and every other artist) spelled a million different ways so all of the songs are listed in my library separately.
So, um, I need to know how I can at least manage my albums or whatever so that I can put all songs by one artist in one place and just name it something different, and also, if I do this in iTunes and then hook up my iPod will it automatically update to reflect these new categorizations? Also...if none of that is possible, how do I delete all of the songs from my iPod and iTunes so that I can try to arrange them differently in my music folder so that when they're imported into iTunes they can all be placed together more correctly?
Could it have something to do with the fact that when I installed iTunes I selected the option to "Do it myself" rather than "iTunes do it for you" option when selecting the songs from my music folder? ANY help would be so so so greatly appreciated!!!!!
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In iTunes, right click on the song and go click on the selection 'get song info' (Or somthing like that, I`m not 100% sure, but i think it it similiar) and you can change what you want in there.

How to get right folder name/location on import?

I can't seem to get LR 3.x to import into the desired folder structure like I used to do with
LR 1.x and 2.x. I'm trying for a structure that looks like this:
I want LR to automatically create a folder with the date stamp in it and located in the right year and then let me enter the the last part of the folder name that identifies the subject matter before the import starts. So far, all I can get is the auto-generated folder name by date with no ability to edit that or a fully custom folder name where I have to both locate it properly and type the entire name including date. In LR 1.x and 2.x, this was really easy. LR would suggest the folder name (or multiple folder names if the images span multiple dates) with the date in it and I could just double click on it to add to the supplemental name before the import. Can't find any way to do that in LR 3.x. What it means is that I have to do the import, wait for it to complete, then come back and manually rename each folder it created. This is particularly a pain when there are multiple folders (across multiple dates) and/or when my backup program has already kicked in and done a backup of the auto-generated date before I come in and manually rename it.
So, my question is, how do I get LR to auto-suggest the right date-based folder name in the right folder location and let me add something onto the end of it before the import? This was very easy in LR1.x and 2.x import.

It slipped under the radar when redoing the new import window.
Hopefully, we'll get it back in next major update. In the meantime. you
can add the additional text post import by right clicking on folder name
then choosing Rename from context menu.
Thanks Ian. I hope it does indeed come back. Renaming the directories manually is what I do now - it just extra work from how I used to do it and it doesn't fit smoothly into the workflow because LR seems to get confused sometimes if I rename while it's still importing or while still building thumbnails. For a big import, that means I have to go away, let the thumbnails build, then remember to come back promptly to rename the directory before my backup scheme starts backing up the wrongly named directory. I've managed since 3.x came out, but it finally annoyed me enough I thought I'd post in hopes I was just missing a way to do this. I sure hope this comes back in a future version. Organizing by named "shoot" is a very natural way for me to do it.

I just highlighted and changed the artist name of about a hundred songs in my library. This was an accident and I want to change them back. I can't "undo" or search for artists' names online. Any way to fix this? They are still highlighted.

These were all songs I had ripped from old CDs, lot of which, I no longer have. I can't remember that artists' names for all these songs. They are all "oldies" from the fifties and I just accidentally changed the artist for all them to Fats Domino. I'd had them all highlighted because I had done a batch change of their genre to Oldies. I couldn't tell that they were all still highlighted after that change because I could only see two of the songs at the time that I changed the artist name. Is there any possible way to undo this? All the tracks are still highlighted from the naming operation. I can't search for the artists' names online because I didn't purchase them from iTunes. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

I found one other way to do it. I just deleted them all out of my iTunes library. Now I can re-import them from Window's My Music file with the original artists' names intact.
Thanks for your help, Matt!

Changing the artist name

I am probably missing something easy, but I would appreciate any help you can give. I have downloaded many songs from the internet that were in compilation albums and the artist name on I-tunes shows up as "various artists." I know the correct artist names, but I can't figure out how to change it, so that I can sort by artist name. Tt will let me change the title, but not the artist. help please!
Thanks, Bill

Read this article, it has some good tips on Artist vs. Album Artist.
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1468
I put "Various Artists" in the *Album Artist* field, and the single artist in the Artist field.

Missing Artist name in CD import

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