Problems Renaming Artist Names

For some reason, when I imported my Counting Crows albums, some of them imported as The Counting Crows. It's odd because it doesn't show "The Counting Crows" in the artist name area, but when I do a search for "The Counting Crows" 70 songs come up, and when I search for "Counting Crows" only 212 of my total 282 songs come up. They are also separated when I have to sync the artist to my iPhone. I have tried everything I know to change them, doing them individually, selecting all and right clicking>get info>typing in the artist name, and i have tried to select all and apply the sorting field to all, but nothing has worked. Any suggestions?

For some reason, the 'album artist' name was different from the 'artist' name on some tracks. I changed it, but now for some reason I have 60 tracks that still come up as "The Counting Crows". This is from the list menu on iTunes. I have other problems too. Whenever I go to a grid or cover flow view, a lot of my album artwork is on the wrong album (or better stated, some of my tracks are under the wrong album artwork). In list view, the artist and album names are all correct though. I don't understand why it's all messed up since the info should have been applied correctly when I uploaded these albums. My big problem is that the artwork is incorrect not just for this artist, but multiple tracks and artist for my 12000 tracks.

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Hey everyone. I'm using an iPhone 5S, newest firmware, iTunes totally up to date on Mac. I had an issue where I had to delete all my songs on my phone, and put everything back on. After doing that, I noticed that a lot of songs I have aren't keeping the name of the artist that I've given the song, but instead reverting back to what iTunes store gives it. For Example, I buy a lot of video game soundtracks from iTunes. I rename all of the artists names to "Video Games" so they'll be sorted all together so they can all be easily found. So the composer for the Assassin's Creed soundtrack is Jesper Kid, but I change it to "Video Games". Prior to this incident all of them were listed as Video Games as the artist in iTunes and on my phone library. They have all now reverted back to Jesper Kid as the artist in my phone. However, in iTunes under the artist column, they are all still listed as video games, but when I move them to the phone, they don't stay Video Games and turn back into Jesper Kid. In the sorta options for every song, it's all listed to sort as "Video Games", Jesper Kid isn't listed anywhere in the sorting. Does anyone know why it's doing this? Are there any settings that I would need to change where the internet might change it back? If anyone knows anything please let me know, this is quite annoying and I've been doing it like this for years and I've never had this problem. Thanks a lot.
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Hey, I'm having this problem with song names. For example, instead of the song title being "Song Title" it will be like "Artist Name - Song Title". It's like this for half my files. I'm trying to organize my music files and every time I fix it, it keeps going back.
This has happened to me before and usually if I double click it, it will automatically change. This time, nothing seems to work except doing it manually ("Get Info)" and that would take too long since I have 7,000 files like this. I posted this on another board and somebody said to right click the songs and click Update ID3 v2.4 which originally worked, but now nothing but manually doing it works.
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If you want to force iTunes to re-read all tags, go to your Music view and go to Edit>>Select All. Then right click in the selection and choose Get Info. Don't change anything, just exit by clicking OK. iTunes will update the library with the tag information from the song files.

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A bit of an esoteric request but...
As is pretty standard I have my Artist names sorted by Surname, but listed as First Name/Surname
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When i put a song on itunes, it appears under the artist and the song name but when i look for it on my iPod under the artist name, it doesnt show up. Where is the song?

I went to that link but it doesnt seem to help. In itunes I have made sure that the song title, album and artist name are already in there with the correct spelling etc. In itunes all the info is there. When I look for the artist in my ipod it doesn't show up. I can find the album and the individual songs but the artist is not there.
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One thing you should check is to make sure the album is not listed as a compilation. To do this, highlight the all the songs from the album and right->click +Get Info+ from the Menu. When the window pops up, head over to the Info tab and in the bottom right hand corner you will see "Part of a compilation" with a check box next to it. Make sure there is no check mark. If there isn't one, check it, and then uncheck it again and then hit Ok. See if that helps.
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