Organizing albums by year on ios device

Is there a way to organize itunes match albums by year on an iOS device similar to what we have on iTunes?
I hate having the albums all over the place (OCD)

Michael Allbritton wrote:
If you've downloaded the tracks to your iOS device you'll need to delete the tracks for the ID3 changes to take affect.
I haven't downloaded any music onto my iPhone as far as I'm concern, I don know they propably get downloaded as you play them, I will have to check on that.
Michael Allbritton wrote:
As to displaying albums in "boxsets," I'm not sure exactly what you mean. Do you mean you want the Albums to be displayed in the same way in the Music app as they are in the iTunes Store? I don't think that is possible, honestly.
What I do (and this might be useful to you) is put the title of the boxset in the Album field. For example: Abbey Road (The Beatles in Stereo), or The Doors L.A. Woman (The Complete Studio Albums).
Or you can use the Sort Album field. I haven't this, but what you could do is put the title of the boxset in the Sort Album field and see if that does what you want it do. In short, play around with the ID3 tag fields in iTunes to get what you want. You won't hurt anything and if you don't like the results just delete the tag from the field and it goes back to like it was.
I've tried and it doesn't really do anything, I just thought they way they showed it on the iTunes store was going to be tha way they'll look in my library, no biggie.

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Friends,
I find that organizing albums per year is much more convenient than by alphabetical order.
And makes much more sense, to me.
Now this is no problem when you're in iTUnes, as you can visualize all your music both ways, per year, alphabetically (and many more, actually.
But when I'm listening through my iPod???
my iPod organizes albums alphabetically by default.
In order to have an artist's albums organizes by year, I see no way but adding the year in front of the title.
1961 - Bob Dylan
1962 - Freewheelin
1963 - The Times They Are a-Changin'
and so on.
Which works ok, but it's definitely ugly.
Let alone the fact that I cannot browse them alphabetically anymore and I find myself having an infinite lists of dates instead of a list of titles.
Is there a way to tell my iPod to organize my albums by year even if the *physical number* is not printed in the title?
(the way you do when you're in iTunes)
Hope I've been clear
Thanks a lot for any answer.
Beppe

I've been wanting to do that too.
I haven't tried this yet, but give it a whirl. Before the title of each album by an artist, put a letter in front. For instance, if you have ten albums under Dylan, put the letter "A" in front of the title of the earliest album, "B" in front of his second and so on.
Searching by album would not work, but I never do that anyway. I usually go to the artist first, then look for the album.

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1/It is evident to me that only My Photostream is automatically uploading/ syncing ( within the number of 1000) pics;
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2/ since Photostream will then delete ( algorithms unknown) an unknown number of photos, to stay<1000,
saving is necessary:
one would either save them in Photos/ . (?)
Someone here has suggested to take the content of Photostream and create a new Album ( eg: "From Photostream_ Date"),
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- OR: are the Albums strictly collections on the respective iOs - device, (and the Mac ?), eventually
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->> Having said so, Can one sync on the Album level ?
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3/ when is the best time, to save the My Photostream
Sorry , if too many Q's

My Qs were more specific
It is easier to answer specific question, when I know whch options you are having on your computers. I.e. I wondered if you would be able to use Shared PhotoStreams instead of My Photo Stream, but that would require MacOS X 10.9. at least, see: iCloud: Using and troubleshooting Shared Photo Streams
( pls see above): 1/ I was assuming that via iCloud only " my Photostream" is distributed onto all aktivated iOs- devices;
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- having said so: does iCloud then back up my Camera Roll ( Photos) in toto ?
Your Photostream is generated automatically from all photos saved to your camera roll, so if you keep all photos in your camera roll and save any new photos from the Photo Stream to your camera roll, they will all be backed up, inclding any videos in your camera roll. This list describes in detail, what automatically will be backed up in iCloud over Wi-Fi:
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2/ the 2nd Q posed was: Is there a mechanism to save/ backup on the Album level ( I guessed it can be done via iTunes), but also through iCloud (??)
That is exactly, why I asked for your system versions: if you could create Shared Streams, you could use 100 separate streams just like albums, and all would be stored in iCloud.
But there is no way to structure "My Photo Stream".
But the iCloud backup of your devices will include all application data, so albums you define in the Photos app will also be included, only not the photos synced to your device using iTunes, unless you save them to the camera roll.
- Does one then HAVE TO make b/u via iTunes for EACH iOs device ( and of course the whole Library file
You can make your iCloud backup using Wi-Fi ( iCloud: Backup and restore overview), but you will have more control over it, when you create the backup using iTunes. And syncing using USB is faster than Wi-Fi.
4/ Does one have to save (B/U) as well via iTunes into the iPhoto library,
as also via iCloud (?)
It is recommended: the iCloud backup of your IOS devices will enable you to restore your devices directly from iCloud, but a separate backup in iTunes will make it possible to restore a new replacement device from the backup, if your iPad, iPhone will be stolen, lost, or defective. And you can access the iTunes backup even when the network is down, or there is a problem with your iCloud account.
iPhoto library: When you automatically import the photoStream into your iPhoto library on your Mac, any backup of your iPhoto library will be a backup of your Photo Stream photos as well. I'd create the albums in iPhoto on your Mac.
Some Links:
iCloud: My Photo Stream troubleshooting
iCloud: Photo Stream FAQ
Regards
Léonie
A remark about Photostream : its deletion logic for pics, once 1000 is reached is intransparent
This is explaine d by the fact that "my Photo Stream" is not meant to be a storage, just a transient buffer. You have one month time to grab your photos from the stream, and then they will be removed, consider it to be a stream of photos that you are viewing from a narrow window. You are supposed to download the photos to your camera roll or to an event on your mac, as soon as you are seein it in the stream. After a month it will be gone.

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Not that I have found I am afraid.
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Organizing albums by year on ios device

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