"Music - Artists" section displays names of songs.

Whenever I click on "Music" and then on "Artists" is displays all the songs on my iPod (and not the artists). All the other sections on my iPod display the information they are supposed to, except for my "Artists" section. I have done the "r" list many times and have even erased the program completly from my computer and installed everything again. But it still keeps messing up.
What do I do?
Ipod with Video Windows XP

I didn't think my questions were that tough, but since no one has responded, I'm closing out this entry.

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ARTISTS SECTION OF IPOD

When I go to 'Artists' in the section that has Playlists, Artists, Albums, Songs etc. instead of having all my different artists listed alphabetically I have all the songs from my ipod listed alphabetically like in the 'Songs' section.
I hope that makes sense.

Check the Zombies album. Look at the File/Get Info/Info>Artist. Since every track is by The Zombies, the Artist field should have "The Zombies" in it. If not, then one or more tracks has something else in there. Also check the File/Get Info/Sorting tab to make sure there are no discrepancies in the various sort fields.
Actually, there is one more thing: does this phenomenon occur when you look on your iPod Touch in the Music/Artists section and when each letter of the alphabet is separated by a "letter header"? (Once there are more than a set number of artist entires, the headers appear, before that, they don't.) If so, there sdoes appear to be a bug in the iPod Touch that causes this to happen. I've had in happen in the past, but currently there is no probelm. I'm not sure why!

Alphabetical sorting of Music Artists [Name of Artist] All Songs?

When I go to Music>Artists>[Name of Artist]>All Songs, it sorts the songs by album, is there a way to have this sorted alphabetically instead, without regard to album? Basically I want a way to view an alphabetical list of songs by a certain artist without making a million playlists. This would only apply to Music>Artists>[Artist]>All Songs, I want everything else to stay as is. This is for a current gen Ipod Classic. Also, would doing this (if it's even possible) mess up the sorting of artists who I only have one album for (I would want these to stay sorted by track number)?

Regarding the playlists, just click on the NAME column within each playlist to sort the list by name. Make sure the shuffle icon is not selected before you do this. Your playlists will be in Track Name order now. (You must do this for EACH playlist)
I believe when choosing an individual artist, then choosing all albums by that artist, the tracks will be sorted by album name then track number per album, so the ALBUMS will be played in alphabetical order, but the songs will play in the track order of each album. There is no way to chage this, as far as I know.
There may be a workaround for this by removing all the track numbers from all of your files. However, this will mess up your album order if you ever wish to listen to individual albums.
To each his own, I know, but hearing all songs in alphabetical order drives me insane.

So I have been using my iPad for a few months now and I recently noticed that the time display next to the playlist name in the music app that is supposed to display the total song count and time of a playlist is way off. I have a 25 song playlist that 2

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Greetings,
First make an iCal backup, File > Export > Archive.
Remove the following to the trash and restart your computer:
Home > Library > Caches
Home > Library > Calendars > Calendar Cache, Cache, Cache 1, 2, 3, etc. (Do not remove Sync Cache or Theme Cache)
Home > Library > Preferences > com.apple.ical (There may be more than one of these. Remove them all.)
__NOTE: Removing these files will remove any shared (CalDAV) calendars you may have access to. You will have to re-add those calendars to iCal > Preferences > Accounts.
Once the computer is back up and running open iCal and test.
Hope that helps.

My iphone 4 music player doesn't display the arabic songs names ?

My iphone 4 music player doesn't display the ARABIC songs names ?

ok i found the solution here by deleting the corrupted library
http://portablevideo.blogspot.com/2008/12/music-player-database-problems.html
now one of these below is for the music and one for the photos and i didnt have a problem with the photos but did it anyways and now the player can see my music:
these are the files that need deleting in order to get rid of the corrupted library.
Storage Drives: (Mass storage E, Memory Card F)
\private\101ffca9\harvesterdbvx_x.dat
\private\10281e17\[string]mpxvx_x.db
\private\10281e17\[string]pcvx_x.db
TIP: Connect the device in USB mass storage mode (File Transfer), to locate the private folder from the PC.
TIP: STRING and x_x will change depending on your phone. (my files had slightly different names than above on the n97)

Newly purchased music isn't displaying under Artists

Please help me-this is driving me crazy.
I recently downloaded some new music from iTunes. The music is displaying correctly in iTunes and I have synched my iPod. But on my iPod, the new music displays everywhere except under the Artist section. Why would this be?
Thanks in advance.

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 but the simplest remedy is just add None or Miscellaneous 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. Compilations are stored in a separate folder in iTunes so the songs don't appear inside the normal Artist>Album folder.

Songs not showing up in Artists section

A few artists of mine will not show up in the Artists section of the iPod, but their albums will show up in the Albums section. When I play the album, the artist is displayed correctly on the Now Playing screen. How can I correct this so that the songs are visible in both the Artists and the Albums sections?

This isn't foolproof but 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 marked as part of a compilation or 2) it is missing an album name.
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. Compilations are stored in a separate folder in iTunes so the songs don't appear inside the normal Artist>Album folder which may be why this happens.
Also 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 but the simplest remedy is just add None or Miscellaneous 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

Can't find songs in my artist section

So I recently got a MacBook Pro and burned a ton of cds onto it, but when I put all of the songs onto my iPhone, I noticed that some of them don't go into the actual artist group. For example, I put on a Coldplay cd and I can find the songs in the songs section but when I go to the artist name, I can only find the Coldplay songs that I've bought and downloaded from iTunes, not the ones I burned. Weirdly enough, some of the cds I burned went into the artist section just fine. Hopefully that wasn't too confusing.. Thanks for any answers!!

When you import a CD into iTunes, iTunes contacts the Gracenote music database to automatically download song titles, artist, year, etc. However, since the data is user-submitted, not all of the data is accurate. It seems like some of your albums did not have "Coldplay" written in as the artist.
Go to Music in iTunes, and select the albums you want (Command-click to select multiple items.) Secondary-click on one of the selected items and select Get Info. Manually enter "Coldplay" as artist. Click OK. Sync.

Quick name search, music artist search, etc. (This is a suggested solution)

Spotlight wasn't finding documents or music, even if they were sitting on my desktop. I was using command-F to bring up the find window. It was also an annoyance to have to switch "kind" to whatever I was really searching for every time.
I found an Apple fix which suggested re-indexing my computer. I was lead to believe it was unnecessary to have to re-index, as Spotlight is supposed to update automatically, so I wasn't looking for that solution and wasted a lot of time before finding it. I saw it in a post on this site as well. In case you haven't seen that fix:
Go to System Prefs->Spotlight->Privacy, and enter all of your internal and external drives in the box. Then remove them, and it re-indexes everything. (It only takes about 14 hours...) OK, it actually took 2 hours, but seemed like 14.
The music and documents I was looking for now appeared under a general "Search for" after clicking command-F. But so did all kinds of other unrelated stuff, like eBooks, documents, emails, and even images when I entered "Name", "Pink Floyd. It was annoying to have to switch lots of fields to do a simple name search. Here's a suggested time saver which can be used for a name search or any other search.
This is an example for a music artist search.
1) To find songs by a certain artist anywhere on your computer, first open a find window (command-f). Then select "Others" in the top menu and click on all your drives.
2) For "Kind" select "Music". The and add "Authors" "Contains" on the next line. The ID3 tag for the songs you are looking for have to be filled in for "artist" for this search to work.
"Authors" is found in a menu that comes up if you select "Other" at the bottom of the pop-up menu under the first filter button. All kinds of other search terms are there as well which I never knew existed.
3) Then fill in some type of symbol which brings up few if any results in the Authors field and save the search. I used pi ("π", option-p).
Whenever you want to do an artist search, select your saved search, erase the symbol, and enter your actual search. Not really that big of a deal, but it is less annoying than switching everything every time you want to do a search.
You can do the same thing for any type of search. For example for a document search, enter "Filename" "Contains" and "Kind" "Document", then your symbol, and save it. That way you don't get 7000 results if you try to search for a word document you named "To do."
If you find this useless, feel free to post replies ridiculing me. But please make them entertaining

Another option:
Dowmload Quicksilver or LaunchBar or Butler
Take 5 minutes to configure it - just make it search your home folder, for instance.
invoke it with your keyboard shortcut
search
QS is free, the others are shareware.
Regards
TD

Music player requires title attribute for song nam...

Hi, I just transferred a set of music to my yellow Lumia 920. Some of the song names do not show up in Lumia music player, and i found the reason : for some of the files, the music file uses the attribute "title". For those files, the song name works (it's that "title"). But for some files, the title attribute is empty and there is just file name. For those, the song name does not show up (that is : Lumia does not use the file name as song name, but it requires the "title" attribute).
Now my question : what would be the easiest way to overcome this. Either how to tell Lumia to use file name is title field is missing, or how to fast copy the file name to title field? Or something else.
(I did not use Zune for file transmission but transerred the files by copy&paste method. I've got an old XP computer that do not quite understand modern devices like Lumia...;-)
Thanks!
Ari

I ended up doing it by hand. That is, copy filename to "title" attribute. There are not so many of those files afterall.
Another interesting things that I've discovered during my "iPod => Lumia mp3 migration"
- if I've done my own mp3 albums, all mp3 files should have a same "album artist" value e.g. "various". Othervise, each mp3 with different album artist will appear as a separate album
- disconnect xbox music service. It obviously search for album names etc from xbox, but at least with my music collection it screws everything. It may e.g. divide one album in two parts, each part having different genre.
My favourite music player currenlty is "musicPlayer 8 free", since it allows selecting a genre, and then albums on that genre.

So i recently bought "Paranoid" from Avenged Sevenfold, it was a cover from Black Sabbath's. I saw the song was in the "Various Artists" section. Is there anyway i can put that song in Avenged Sevenfold's list of songs by their "Artist" category?

Okay. so i recently bought a Black Sabbath "Paranoid" that was covered by Avenged Sevenfold. I found the song in the "Various Artists" section of the artist category. Is there anyway i can put that song in Avenged Sevenfold's list of songs and album's in the "Artist" category? Btw, i am on a Windows 8 laptop, so idk if that'll be diferent or not. Thanks for your help!!

Hi scorpion9903,
Welcome to the Support Communities!
The article below may be able to help you with this.
Click on the link to see more details and screenshots.
iTunes 11 for Windows: Edit song and CD information
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH12360
Information about each item in your library is stored in the item’s Info window. To open the Info window, select the item and then choose File > Get Info.
Change the name of the song, artist, or album
Select the information you want to edit.
Type the new information.
Press Enter.
Edit song or CD information
Select the song or CD you want to edit, and choose File > Get Info (or press Control-I).
Click Info and make your changes.
Tip: If you’re changing the same information (for example, the genre) for multiple items, you can select all the items and change the information for them at the same time.
I hope this information helps ....
Happy Holidays!
- Judy

Itunes on my iPhone 5 only displays the artist list with the UP NEXT feature. How can I change the UP NEXT feature on my iPhone 5 to display the next songs that are to be played on my play list?

Itunes on my iPhone 5 only displays the artist list with the UP NEXT feature. How can I change the UP NEXT feature on my iPhone 5 to display the next songs that are to be played on my play list?

Hi Sarah,
It sounds like the songs have either not yet synced over to the iPhone, or something went wrong when attempting to sync to the iPhone. My recommendation is to uncheck the "Sync Music" checkbox.
Once you have done that, recheck the "Sync Music" checkbox, and apply the changes once more. This will instruct iTunes to completely remove all music from your iPhone, and then copy the files once more. If you have a large amount of music, this initial sync may take a while.
If the above does not resolve your issue, see the following articles:
iOS: Syncing with iTunes
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1386
iOS: How to transfer or sync content to your computer
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1296
Thanks,
Matt M.

Searching by artist name does not show songs with artists name in song title

If i search by an artist's name in itunes, it does not display songs by a different artist that have the artist's name in the song title, such as remixes that have a parenthesis, then the searched artist's name after with no space in between, like it used to. For example, I searched "Munchi" (artist name), and it showed songs listing munchi as the artist, but not songs with munchi in the title. In the old itunes, if I searched "munchi", the list of songs would include the song Chicken Lover (Munchi likes 'em fried moombahton remix), which is a song by the artist "bassanova", but now that song and songs like that (remixes) in which the artist im searching has their name in the song title but not as the song artist, are not included. This is a serious problem for me as it leaves out alot of songs which the searched artist has collaborated on out. In the old itunes i would get a list of any song which had the word "munchi" in any field, whether or not the word munchi had any letters or symbols before or after it.

this will answer your question:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4577261?start=0&tstart=0

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.

Shell script to copy Music/Artists/Albums/Songs to Music2/Artists/Songs

Hi,
My Music folder is currently organized as follows (standard iTunes behaviour):
Music
Artists
Albums
Songs
Artist1
Album1
Song11
Song12
Song13
Album2
Song21
Song22
Artist2
Album1
Song11
Song12
Album2
Song21
Song22
Song23
etc.
I would like to copy this Music Folder to an USB flash drive, but without the "Albums" level, i.e.:
Music2
Artists
Songs
Artist1
Song11
Song12
Song13
Song21
Song22
Artist2
Song11
Song12
Song21
Song22
Song23
I assume that an unix shell script is able to do this, but this is beyond my skills
Or do you know a software that can manipulate files in such a way?
Thanks in advance.

OK, clear. For future runs, should I be better off runing the command in a directory on my Mac, and copy the resulting music folder to the USB drive?
No, the optimum solution would be to format the thumb drive with the HFS+ filesystem. You could use cp, ditto, or rsync will the proper options and not copy the file fork to the thumbdrive. Or you could filter out the file forks in the two find commands.
ls | while read dir; do
    find "${dir}" -type f ! -name "._*" $ -name "*.mp3" -o -name "*.m4a" $ -print0 | xargs -0 -I '{}' mv -n "{}" "${dir}"
done
find . -type f ! -name "._*" $ -name "*.mp3" -o -name "*.m4a" $ -mindepth 3 | while read file; do
     base=${file%\/*}
     base=${base##*\/}
     mv "${file}" "${file%*\/*\/*}"/"$base"_"${file##*\/}"
done
The warning or error messages are innocuous anyways.
OK. I removed them manually, which took me less than one minute. Should I add a "rm -r .DS_Store" step before future runs?
I wouldn't bother. Change->
find . -type d -empty -delete
to
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