Music artists

Hello, I am new here, so please bare with me.
I have a 4th gen white 32 gig iPod Touch with the latest update: 5.1.1
I work off of a PC platform using windows 7, I am not new to using iPods, I've had them almost since they have come out.
Using iTunes in Windows to upload music onto my iPod has never been a problem for me.
What I do is, click and drag the song(s) from my music folders on the hard drive to my iPod in iTunes. I do not have all my music in iTunes, I just take what I want and put it directly into my iPod, I do not put it in iTunes first. Then once the song is in my iPod, I will select the song(s) and right click and choose "Get Info". From this next window I will organize my music how I like it, click "Ok" and then the music changes its info based on what I chose. This is how I have always done things, and have never had any issues until now.
But now, I will do the above process to add and organize music on my iPod, however now, Most, but not all of my changes will remain uneffected from the changes I made on the computer.
Computer:
In this case Jimi Hendrix, I want it to be like this: Artist: Jimi Hendrix Album: Valleys of Neptune.
But here is how it is on the iPod: Artist: The Jimi Hendrix Experience Album:The Jimi Hendrix Experience.
How can I fix this? How come the Artist/song info wont display correctly on the iPod.
There is something really wrong, because it wont even store artists in the correct alphabetica order! What can I do? I really do not want to restore and have to put all that music back on there!
Thanks!

FWIW, my iPhone 6 was set up as a new device. I don't think it's a backup issue.
I don't think it can be a hardware issue because I can alphabetically scroll Albums, Songs, and Compilations.
The categories that do not scroll properly are Artists, Composers, and Genres. They jump from A to U or V.
All other apps on the phone scroll just fine.
It could be an issue with song quantity(?) I have 22,240 songs synced.
The Music app is also very laggy in the categories that do scroll properly. Albums and Songs, for instance, stutters every time I scroll the titles (not the alphabet.)
When scrolling and selecting songs to play, the songs take at least 3 seconds to begin playing.
I'm wondering if the iPhone 6 and or the Music app is not designed for large libraries.
It's very annoying.

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