Remove unchecked artists/albums etc

For some reason when I check check "selected playlists, artists and genres" and uncheck the artists I do not want on the iphone they are not removed.
Reading the forums it was indicated that songs that are part of a playlist will not be removed so I deleted all the playlists and the songs/artists are still on the iphone.
I then removed all songs and added them back in but they are still there.
I even disabled genius and the artists/songs are still there.
I know I can manually manage the music but unchecking the artists would be very unwieldy.
The main summary screen is set to open itunes when this iphone is connected and nothing else and the music tab does not have the automatically fill free space with songs checked.

It appears that unchecking genres is still working but leaving all fields as default and then unchecking band names still syncs these bands.
Does anyone know if this is a "feature"

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If i try to edit an artist in the artist field and type a german 'umlaut' like äöü in the input field the autotext in this field will stop working and the autotext is inserted. So I can't edit/assign a artist/album etc. name with a german umlaut without using the clipboard. Please fix this.

You are correct and I wish that I had known this before spending 4 days and a lot of trouble going over this with both Apple Care and iTunes support. They had me jumping through hoops and didn't know anything until it was finally escalated. Only then did I get a vague response like I mentioned in the first post. It's troubling to me how a simple response from anyone there could've just said we know about this and they are bugs in 10.4 causing this.
There are other issues too as you point out with the syncing and crashing. Anyway, hopefully others will find information here more useful than calling Apple for help. Not much we can do now except roll back to 10.3 for those that kept it and hope also they can updated Apple Application Support component.

ITunes 8: How to remove the little grey arrows next to artist, album etc.?

Hello
Since upgrading to iTunes 8, I can no longer find the setting to remove the arrows next to the song name, artist, album and genre. I don't like them in my library as it takes up space and creates clutter while I'm browsing though.
If you don't know what I mean, then see this: http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596100360/figs/d1e733-web.jpeg labelled as "Little gray arrows"
Hope you can help.
Thanks

It's all over this place, but:
Close iTunes, open Terminal. Put in this command:
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Sorting Files in Finder eg. Artists, Album etc.

Hi, is there an option where i can arrange my files by artists or albums like in windows? I'd like to browse my music files easily without using itunes as im only editing the metadata.
In Windows -
Choosing sorting options: http://img.technospot.net/group-by-more-options.gif
Into: http://s3.amazonaws.com/satisfaction-production/s3images/21365/Picture_7inline.png
I've found an app called FileBrowse that sorts files in special folders? but it just doesn't makes sense to pay for such a function.
Help will be most appreciated.

If I'm reading your description correctly, this is exactly the same setup I use. I use a directory structure like this: genre/artist/album/tracks. Anything whose metadata and/or filenames I haven't fixed yet goes into a temp folder until I'm ready to process it. I then fix the folder and filenames, and move the item from the temp folder into its permanent location before I add it to iTunes. (Obviously, I don't let iTunes manage my collection, but do it manually myself.) You can change the metadata all you want and iTunes will still find the referenced files as long as you don't change the directory names or the filenames. If I want to move a directory or change the filenames for some reason, I just remove it from iTunes first and then add it again after I'm done making changes. Finder doesn't really enter into it, since it doesn't display metadata. What it comes down to is that iTunes doesn't care much about filenames as long as it knows where the file is, and Finder doesn't care about metadata.

Petition : View by (artist/album/etc) option for playli

the songs in my player are of two languages, so I have two playlists for songs of each language. Each of these playlists consists of thousands of songs. So selecting specific songs while playing any playlist becomes a big headache, since I cant search the playlist according to artist or album.
I would love to have the 'view by' functionality for playlists also, something that can make big playlists look like libraries.
So, if u ppl agree with me please sign!

I am talking about the player not the software.
Saving different libraries definitely comes handy if ur collection contains songs of multiple languages, and u want to organise them separately. By giving playlists the option of viewing by artist/album/genre, ur basically turning the playlists into libraries.
Message Edited by amplfer on 2-22-2005 07:22 AM

Is there a way to undo "autofill" so that all the songs, artists, albums, etc on my iPod touch 4th gen coincide/are synchronized again?

I don't know if you can help me, but I erroneously clicked on "auto fill" under the "on this ipod" category of the itunes screen that's located on my desktop. As a result, all the songs, albums, artists, etc., are now out of sync, don't coincide with one another, and when I touch a song to play on my ipod touch (fourth generation) it flips to a different artist/song and plays it automatically. Is there any way I can undo this, and if so, how? This occurred while I was purchasing/downloading music onto my iPod, and the usb cord was plugged into the modem at the time. Any suggestions/advice offered to solve this problem would be much appreciated.

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I am editing some mp3 files in GarageBand and I need to put in a different artist and album name. When I export the file from GarageBand and open it in iTunes it says that the artist is me and that it is my album. Any help on how I change it? I need to change the files properties and not just the name in iTunes because I need to upload it to the internet and so the artist name needs to be downloaded with it. I am running OS X Yosemite version 10.10.1, iTunes version is 12.0.1.26, GarageBand version 6.0.5 (428.5).
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Change the preferences in GarageBand in the "My Info" settings before you create the project: The "before" is important, because a bug in earlier GarageBAnd versions causes GarageBand to ignore the changes settings, if the project has been created with different "My Info" settings.
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HELP! Letters 'F' and 'G' are jumbled together in Artists, Albums, etc!

Hi,
For some reason, anything on my iPod beginning with an 'F' or a 'G' is mixed together. Instead of having all of the 'F's in alphabetical order, I have to weed through a bunch of 'G's as well. Here's an example straight from my songs list on my iPod:
Face to Face
Gage Park
Faint
Getaway
Fetisha
Getting Better
Ghosts
Fiddler's Green
Fingers In The Factories
Gimme Gimme Gimme
Find Me An Angel
Fireworks
Girl
etc.
It continues all the way through until the list reaches the letter 'H'.
It only happens with 'F' and 'G' and the problem only appears on my iPod - NOT on my computer when I open iTunes!
Any idea on how to fix this? It's getting to be really annoying.
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Its possible to make your Artist tag and Sorting tags different.
Theres a feature that allows for custom sorting, like last names first, etc. Example: say I take artist John Doe. iTunes has a feature where he can be sorted as Doe John, but still be listed as John Doe, thus he would appear in the D section but be listed as John Doe.
While I do not believe this is your problem, it should be able to fix it
To try this, open iTunes. Right click on one of these problem artists, and select "Get Info".
From here, go to the Info tab, and ensure all the information is correct. Then, go to the sorting tab and type in their name as you want it to be sorted on the iPod (For example: if you want Face to Face to appear just as that then type in Face to Face).
Do this for all of the problem artists, and load up the iPod. If it still isn't sorted properly, I would restore your iPod.
Hope this helps.

HT1391 Purchases show in the Playlist folder /Purchases, but not anywhere else in the Library Album, etc: - how do you get them to show there?

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Can I re-configure my iTunes artist/album settings en-mass?

All my music in iTunes has "Album Artist" as my main category to display the info' all my albums. This way, all my albums display in iTunes with the artist name above and the album title below. Now that I have an ATV1 connected to my TV, there is no "Album Artist" option to play my music, only "Artist" & "Album" etc.
Unless I can somehow get an "Album Artist" option in my ATV (which I doubt) my only other option I can see is for me to swap the information for all of my iTunes tracks/albums between Album/Album Artist/Artist. This would take many, many hours!
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Is there a method to swap around all this information for all my tracks without going through each one in turn?
For example, move the info' from "Album Artist" to "Album"?
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Hmm, if I understand correctly then for say Animals by Pink Floyd you have entered Animals as the Album Artist and Pink Floyd as the Album title, and you now want to switch back to the conventional use of these fields? Or have you just left the Artist field blank?
Either way I could write a script for that. You'll find some of my existing ones here.
I don't have an Apple TV so I'm not sure exactly how it behaves, but Artist & Album Artist can have somewhat different behaviours in iTunes and various Apple devices, so you may need to do more work to get everything displayed neatly on all your devices. More on that in my article Grouping tracks into albums.
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V8.0: How to remove the Store arrows next to Artist, Album, Genre etc.?

Hello,
Since upgrading to iTunes 8, I can no longer find the setting to remove the arrows next to the song name, artist, album and genre. I don't like it in my library as it takes up space and creates clutter while I'm browsing though.
If you don't know what I mean, then see this: http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596100360/figs/d1e733-web.jpeg "Little gray arrows"
Hope you can help.
Thanks

Solution here: http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=8051490

Screen Goes Black and Hangs when browsing by Artist, Album, Song, etc.

I'm having a fairly huge issue with Front Row:
I can play video files (although their is a moment of hangtime between selecting a video and the video actually playing) and music files (if I choose the "Shuffle Songs" option), however, when I choose to browse my music by artists, albums, songs, genres, etc. my screen goes black and stays that way until I hit CMD+Q over and over until it finally quits. Furthermore, when I do play music via "Shuffle Songs" and quit out of Front Row, the music continues to play in the background and cannot be stopped, paused, etc.
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I have a similar problem. When browsing music the screen goes to black or just freezes on whatever was beeing displayed for maybe 30 seconds to a minute before continuing. It happens quite often. I am running the latest version of Front Row on a brand new Mac Mini. I have a very large iTunes music folder (about 830 gigabytes of uncompressed AIFF files) running on an external FW800 drive. I tried repairing permissions and a number of Front Row and a few iTunes files appear in the list. However, when I run repair permissions again, the same files are still listed so obviously if they need to be repaired, it's not happening. I tried repairing the volume (no problems found) and repairing permissions from the Install disc but the result was identical.

How to I copy my iTunes library onto an SD card in the same format such as artists, albums playlists etc on a Mac?

HHi,
i am trying to copy my iTunes library onto an SD card so that I can put it in my Audi A4 with the MMI. Is there any way of doing the transfer on iTunes but keeping the structure of iTunes, such as with albums, artists, playlists etc?
THanks in advane
Tom

Files are not copied to drives in a particular order. How they appear on a card depends upon how you have your computer set to display them. If I view a card with files and I have clicked the column header for "file modified date" then it will display in that order. The only time the copying of the files across to a flash drive will influence how your music appears in your player is if the player uses the file names to display the file order, with possibly some extra structure added using folders. If it reads the data inside the files then it will display them pretty much as iTunes would use them and how exactly they are displayed will depend upon how the player actually works. The other way (as I have already said) is if the player uses a special file to tell it how it should order the files on the display. When I last rented a new car it simple read the data inside the files as iTunes does and if a humble Ford Focus can do that then I suspect that is how Audi does it. If it is not doing this then maybe your files do not contain the data, or your simply have not read the special manual for the MMI that I see on Audi's website it provides to its owners and discovered how to set the view order.
Since nobody has seen to it I have been bestowed with an Audi you may have to wait for another Audi owner to answer this, or perhaps do some investigating yourself. If you type "Audi MMI A4" into a web search it will lead you to a bunch of videos on Audi's web site on how to use the MMI. My computer is old and my connection speed is slow so I absolutely hate instructional videos online and I will let you plow through them to see if any provide the information you need.
My understanding from Phil0124 statement is it is simply telling you to copy all the files in the Media folder to the card.
When I cut and paste the iTunes library onto my SD card, it put all of songs in a strange order. It had all of some number 1 from all the albums, then song 2, etc. It didn't keep them in album / artist setup. For some reason it won't copy over in the same structure.
Is this how you are seeing it when viewed on your computer, or is this how you are seeing it in the MMI? If that is how you are seeing it on the computer, forget it, or do as Phil01234 says and drag across folders from the main Media folder in the iTunes folder.
By the way, on a Mac to copy files from one drive to another you simply drag them, no copy and paste.

When viewing multiple item information, I was wondering what the checkboxes next to "Artist", "Album Artist", etc... are used for.

When viewing multiple item information, I was wondering what the checkboxes next to "Artist", "Album Artist", etc... are used for.

When checked, it means that you are going to apply whatever is in the box to all of the selected items.

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?
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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?
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find . -type d -empty -delete
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