"scrambled" music/artist/title details

I am experiencing some seriously weird things in iTunes, and wondered if you had any idea of what might be happening, or have heard of similar problems.
A number of the tunes have mysteriously been linked to the wrong title and artist details with no apparent interference from me. The exact same thing has happened to the exact same tunes on both the laptops and the iPod (probably a factor of my loading them from my library originally). Some of the tunes are from one playlist, some from another, meaning different artists and albums are involved. Some are ones we digitized from tapes and records (one seems particularly bug-ridden), but others are from commercial CDs. (Haven't discovered if any from the iTunes store are buggered yet.)
Seems a recent problem, so maybe a function of a new version of iTunes. We are using the latest version (possibly part of the problem, what with DRM tweaking, etc.).
Anyway, if you know of similar issues, have any ideas, or...? let us know - the tech was stumped.

Select (highlight) all the songs in question. Right-click and 'Get Info' Edit the Artist Name to whatever you want. All will then be identical.

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I have had this problem i cant seem to figure out since updating to ios 8. The problem seems only when 2 artist have the same album name. Example i have Outkast "Greatest Hits" and 2pac "Greatest Hits".
If i go to music > Artist > 2Pac > all the songs are fine
but,
If i go to music . Artist > OutKast > it shows the 2pac greatest hits
It does this with multiple artist, it shows someone else's music if they have the same album name.
I have made sure all the correct tags are entered into itunes and the album artist/artist are correct, also tried with album grouping on and off on my iphone 5s.
I cannot figure out what is causing the issue, but it worked great in ios 7 and with my past iphones.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks

The key to using the Album Artist field is that it only works right if each song is also marked as belonging to a compilation. This choice has been moved to the Options tab in iTunes 8. +Album Artist+ should really by renamed +Compilation Artist+ to make its purpose clear.
Do four things for every track on a compilation album:
1. Fill in Album Artist exactly the same on every song, using an umbrella term like "Various Artists" or "Original Broadway Cast."
2. Make sure all songs have the same album title.
3. Make sure all songs have accurate "Disk __ of __" entries. If all songs are from one disk, it's easiest to erase the disk numbers. Alternately, you could put "1 of 1" in those boxes. Just don't have one song say "1 of 2" while another is blank.
4. For all songs, select Yes from the Compilation menu on the Options tab.

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Something has changed on my iPod. When I sync it now it scrambles music between playlists. So, I will be listening to my jazz playlist when suddenly holiday music from another playlist is there. When I go to iTunes, however, the playlist is as it should b

Something has changed on my iPod. When I sync it now it scrambles music between playlists. So, I will be listening to my jazz playlist when suddenly holiday music from another playlist is there. When I go to iTunes, however, the playlist is as it should be--jazz in the jazz playlist, holiday music in the holiday music playlist. I have two iPods--one is syncing properly while the older one is not. Any thoughts?

You are currently managing your music manually. You can either sync or manage the music manually, not both. If you want to sync, all the music currently on your phone will be erased and replaced with whatever you decide to sync to it.

Quick name search, music artist search, etc. (This is a suggested solution)

Spotlight wasn't finding documents or music, even if they were sitting on my desktop. I was using command-F to bring up the find window. It was also an annoyance to have to switch "kind" to whatever I was really searching for every time.
I found an Apple fix which suggested re-indexing my computer. I was lead to believe it was unnecessary to have to re-index, as Spotlight is supposed to update automatically, so I wasn't looking for that solution and wasted a lot of time before finding it. I saw it in a post on this site as well. In case you haven't seen that fix:
Go to System Prefs->Spotlight->Privacy, and enter all of your internal and external drives in the box. Then remove them, and it re-indexes everything. (It only takes about 14 hours...) OK, it actually took 2 hours, but seemed like 14.
The music and documents I was looking for now appeared under a general "Search for" after clicking command-F. But so did all kinds of other unrelated stuff, like eBooks, documents, emails, and even images when I entered "Name", "Pink Floyd. It was annoying to have to switch lots of fields to do a simple name search. Here's a suggested time saver which can be used for a name search or any other search.
This is an example for a music artist search.
1) To find songs by a certain artist anywhere on your computer, first open a find window (command-f). Then select "Others" in the top menu and click on all your drives.
2) For "Kind" select "Music". The and add "Authors" "Contains" on the next line. The ID3 tag for the songs you are looking for have to be filled in for "artist" for this search to work.
"Authors" is found in a menu that comes up if you select "Other" at the bottom of the pop-up menu under the first filter button. All kinds of other search terms are there as well which I never knew existed.
3) Then fill in some type of symbol which brings up few if any results in the Authors field and save the search. I used pi ("π", option-p).
Whenever you want to do an artist search, select your saved search, erase the symbol, and enter your actual search. Not really that big of a deal, but it is less annoying than switching everything every time you want to do a search.
You can do the same thing for any type of search. For example for a document search, enter "Filename" "Contains" and "Kind" "Document", then your symbol, and save it. That way you don't get 7000 results if you try to search for a word document you named "To do."
If you find this useless, feel free to post replies ridiculing me. But please make them entertaining

Another option:
Dowmload Quicksilver or LaunchBar or Butler
Take 5 minutes to configure it - just make it search your home folder, for instance.
invoke it with your keyboard shortcut
search
QS is free, the others are shareware.
Regards
TD

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Is there an option that prevents the name of podcasts artists from appearing in my music->artists list? I listen a lot of TWiT.tv podcasts but the names of the panel change regularly and they appear in the artist tag. So now my artists list contains a bunch of podcast artists I'd rather not see appearing between my 'real' music artists like Eric Clapton, coldeplay, ...
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In my case, everything looks right in iTunes. Each Cast in their rightful place, categorized neatly by Podcasts, etc. However, on my iPod, the podcast comes across in the Album field, with all the casts as songs.
The weird thing is that I didn't have this problem until a couple months ago. The only thing I can think of that's changed is that i check the preference 'Copy music to iTunes music file when adding to library' in order to fix another little problem.

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I updated my iPhone to iOS5. Now when I go to Music, Artists, select an artist of which I have multiple albums I don't see the list of the artist's albums to choose one. Instead when I click on an Artist it goes straight to an album and I can't seem to find a way to choose another album of the artist, I don't see an artist's albums list when choosing an Artist. Did anyone else notice that?
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Powered off iPad, let it sit for a few minutes, turned it back on, plugged back into iTunes and re-sync'ed.
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I have an iPod "video".
I have some tracks from the same artist, and i have only one album while some tracks haven't album info, in the music > artist the iPod shows only the tracks of the album.
But if there's 2 or more album, there's also an "all album" option that will list also tracks without album info.
U have the same problem? It's a bug?
I had an iPod 2G (HD broken...sigh!), and i haven't this stupid bug...
iBook G4 14 Mac OS X (10.4)

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Hello skatmaster,
And welcome to Apple Discussions!
Yes. In iTunes, right->click on any track you wish to edit and choose *Get Info*. Or you can select multiple tracks at once and edit them all simultaneously as well.
http://www.ehow.com/how2023664edit-information-itunes.html
B-rock

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Because that's the way the music labels want it.

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Hello.
How are you?
Thanks for your reply.
I tryed to change this propriety, but it doesn't work. I think is my instalation.
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