Ok, I might have a fix for the album display order glitch. Sigh..

Question

My problem (that I have posted often about) is that my albums aren't displaying by alpha order on my IOS devices once I started using itunes match / icloud, they seemed to be displaying by random tags or who knows what. Show by album artist is off btw on my IOS devices. No matter which tags I chaged on my local library (and then update or turn itunes match off / on) I could not get the albums to display in the proper alpha order.
Example: I have an album that I ripped and named it: "Karajan Peer Gynt Suites". The artist & composer was Edvard Grieg and the album artist Herbert Karajan. I was keeping it simple. But no matter what I did, it was displaying under the "G's" as opposed to the "K"s.
So, on a hunch I made a copy of those files, then deleted the album from itunes and icloud entirely and let it re-update. Then, I added the files back to itunes and icloud - the tags were already perfectly set - and now it displays correctly under the "K"'s for Karajan.
So it seems that when the album first gets uploaded, it's like the tag gets stuck and won't allow it to change, or some albums just get mis-files. I am going to try other albums and see if that works.
Sheesh.. painful..

Answer 1

I don't know if it's a matter of after I initially added those tracks to ITM I changed the tags locally and they didn't update on ITM or the tags just got "lost" when uploading. It's not every album, maybe 50% of the albums I push end up mis-aligned. The tags "look" right so I have to assume ITM is just missing a tag or incorrectly filing it on the cloud. One 1 album, I had to dump and reload twice before ITM filed it correctly.
Some of these were CD's (classical) that I ripped the other night to try and get an itunes match and some where old mp3's I had backed up from eons ago. So, it doesn't seem to matter the source.