Setting up iPod - Artists/Albums/Songs

I bought my son an iPod for Christmas and we're having troubles organizing the music. We downloaded the entire Black Sabbath CD (14 songs) and a Rolling Stones CD (11 songs). But when I click on "Artist", all the songs are listed - no artist is listed. When I click on "Albums", again all the songs are listed. Shouldn't just the Artists be listed under "Artist" and the names of the albums be listed under "Album".
I know I'm asking such a basic question. but I've spent hours trying to figure this out. Please help.

On itunes you have to give the songs an artist and album name then they will show up on the ipod. Right now the artist and album section having nothing in them so it shows up as no artists and albums. However, the songs should still be on the ipod under playlist.

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Hi,
I've got so many artists in my iPod's list, it takes me far too long to find songs. Not so bad when you're walking around, but terrible when I'm in the car with the iTrip and I'm trying to find a song!
Is there any way I can break the Artists/Albums/Songs lists down into like.. A-K, L-Z? Or jump to a particular letter faster than 1 line at a time? I have looked in the settings but I can't find anything relevant.
If this isn't possible, maybe it would be a good idea for a future iPod feature?
Thanks!

It isn't about how many tunes - rather the size of the files.
Look at the bottom of the iTunes window when viewing a playlist - it will show you number of tunes, time of playlist and the size of the entire playlist.
MJ

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.
Is there anyone out there who can help me fix this? I love Front Row and use it all the time and it would be a shame not to be able to anymore..
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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?
No, the optimum solution would be to format the thumb drive with the HFS+ filesystem. You could use cp, ditto, or rsync will the proper options and not copy the file fork to the thumbdrive. Or you could filter out the file forks in the two find commands.
ls | while read dir; do
    find "${dir}" -type f ! -name "._*" $ -name "*.mp3" -o -name "*.m4a" $ -print0 | xargs -0 -I '{}' mv -n "{}" "${dir}"
done
find . -type f ! -name "._*" $ -name "*.mp3" -o -name "*.m4a" $ -mindepth 3 | while read file; do
     base=${file%\/*}
     base=${base##*\/}
     mv "${file}" "${file%*\/*\/*}"/"$base"_"${file##*\/}"
done
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?
I wouldn't bother. Change->
find . -type d -empty -delete
to
find . -type d -mindepth 2 -maxdepth 2 -exec rm -rf '{}' '+'

Why can't I set my iPod to shuffle songs within a playlist?

My iPod 160 GB Classic runs version 2.0.4. My iPod Nano (version 1.0.2) has that feature. In settings I've set shuffle to "songs".

You can set an iPod Classic to shuffle in a Playlist. Well, my Classic (running 1.1.2 PC) can.
What are you doing after setting shuffle to songs in the Settings menu?
What you need to do is scroll down to the Playlist of your choice and either:
highlight the Playlist and press the Play button (which will play a song at random from that Playlist). When that song finishes, another song will be played - at random - from that same Playlist
enter the Playlist and choose a song that you want to be played first. When that song finishes, another song from that Playlist will be chosen - at random - to be played.
When songs are being played in shuffle mode (the random choice of song), you will see the shuffle icon in the top right corner of the screen. (It's the same icon when in shuffle albums mode.) What happens, that is different, in your case?

Artists, Albums & Songs not organized correctly

I have a first gen, 32G touch running version 2.2.1. All of my music is displayed in alphabetical order (under Artist, Albums and Songs) however they are not correctly shown under the Letter heading. Example: Under the Letter Heading of "G" it shows Artists that begin with "G", "H" and some "J". Any help on how to correct would be appreciated.

Try to reset your iPod. Hold down the sleep and home buttons for at least 10 seconds, ignore the slider to turn it off, let go when you see the Apple logo.

Problem with Displaying Artists/Albums/Songs on iPhone 4S

I purchased the 64GB iPhone 4S and went to load all of my music library onto it (a little over 30GB worth). I believe all the songs are on the phone but I'm having a problem. Not all of them are listed. It's especially noticiable in the artists and albums section. In both of those sections, while each list is in alphabetical order, the artists/albums start to get listed in the wrong part of the alphebet. For example, in the Album section, while it ends with the 123's, the albums listed there start with R, which is where the albums end. The same goes for the artists. So, currently, I can't look for "Who's Next?" by the Who via either of those routes. The problem with the songs is a little different. While I believe all the songs are there, while they start out in alphabetical order, they soon start to become jumbled. It seems it's trying to keep them in order; but it can't. For example, songs beginning with 'L' start during the letter 'J' category. Does anyone know what I can do to get all the albums and artists to list on my phone and how I can get the songs to display in alpahbetical order? Thanks for any help you can provide.

You won't see Viber data in www.icloud.com. App data (e.g. Viber) is included in an iCloud backup or iTunes backup which includes other information. Kindly see this support article for more information - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1766, https://support.apple.com/kb/ht4946 and http://support.apple.com/kb/PH12519.

Copying artist/album/songs titles into word document

i am wanting to to copy the artist, albums and song titles into word so i can print it out and store a hard copy with my back-up dvd that i did?
is it possible?
many thanks if anyone can help

I'm not sure how you can get this information into Word, but you can print a list with the following columns: song/length/artist/album for your entire library in iTunes. To do this, make sure you're in your main library and that you have your music listed in the order you want the final document to appear. Then on the top line select File>Print> then put a check mark in the song listing circle and hit okay. You should get a printed list of everything in your library.

Alphabetical Navigation on right side for Artists/Albums/Songs (Mobile)

There's a utility that allows you to move through alphabetical lists quickly via a thin alphabetical list on the right side of a list. For long alphabetical lists, this is almost necessary to quickly get to where you're going. Adding this to the right side of the Your Music sections that are alphabetically organized would be incredibly helpful.

I couldn't find a topic for this so I made my own. I got forwarded here by an admin. I'll just post my mockup here:
Original postI really want to see fast scrollbars implemented in the android mobile app. It's a small detail, but it makes a huge difference in terms of speed when trying to quickly find a specific artist, album or song inside Your Music. It would also be great to have it in regular playlists when they have alphabetical sorting enabled.
Examples of it implemented in stock android, KK Dialer and Action Launcher 3 Mockup of Spotify implementation:

How can photos be set to specific artist or songs? plz, need ur help ...

im having trouble setting photos to specific artist when the songs are playing and when it shows the songs description. that is possible to do right?
anyway, i already have photos saved in the "IPOD 30gig" however i would like 2 saved them 2 the artist.........
if anybody has ideas i would highly appreciate them!
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Right-click on the song in iTunes and select "Get Info." Under the "Artwork Tab" paste the photo. You do not need to have the album art in the "Photos" section of your iPod.
If you have multiple songs that you want to use the same album art for, you can select them all and do "Get Info" for all of them together; in that case there is a box for "Artwork" in the lower right of the resulting window.

Generic track names instead of the correct artist/album/song name

I've uploaded songs to my itunes library for the past year on my ibook G4, and the bought music CDs I imported always displayed their full information (artist, song title, album etc). I just replaced my malfunctioning 40 GB black and white ipod with the 60GB color display video ipod, and now every music cd I try to import shows up with generic track names and no artist or album title. Is this due to the fact that I started using a new ipod? Or did apple change itunes within the past few weeks so that every music cd now shows up only with this generic info? Is this a copyright security measure issue?
Thanks in advance.
ibook G4 Mac OS X (10.3.9) I am now using the 60 GB video ipod with it

To get the track names etc., when importing a CD, you have to be connected to the Internet.
This article explains why.
To get the info later, select all tracks (with the generic track names) of an album and choose 'Get CD Track Names' from the Advanced menu in the menubar.
Very often the correct information will show up.
Hope this helps.
M
17' iMac fp 800 MHz 768 MB RAM Mac OS X (10.3.9) Several ext. HD (backup and data)

Can't listen to any music on my iPhone 5, when I press play it just skips to the next song, does that for a few seconds, then goes back to artist/album/song list. HELP!!

I just updated my iTunes on my laptop to the newest version. I connected my iPhone five to the laptop, and it asked me something about a restore. I wasn't thinking, confused "restore" with "sync" and I just hit yes.... I know, dumb. Anyways, I logged into iTunes on my laptop, downloaded all my purchased songs through the cloud, did a backup, then disconnected it. When I used my phone again, everything was different. All my backgrounds had changed, my apps were rearranged, I had old apps on my phone that I had previously deleted, etc., all signs pointing to me restoring my phone to a previous version.. None of that bothered me, I knew how to deal with it and just changed everything back to the way I had it before the restore, and everything was fine.
Until I went to listen to some music on my iPod. I made my album choice, selected a song, and instead if it playing, it was silence. I looked at my phone and it was skipping through the songs without ever playing a single sound. That bar that shows how far through the song you are? It never moved from zero, but my songs were skipping and skipping and skipping, almost like I was hitting the "skip track" button, only faster.
Should I re-restore my phone? Would that possibly fix it? I've checked, and my iOS and my iTunes and iPod version are all up to date.
PLEASE HELP ME!! I can't find this topic anywhere in support, and I NEEEEEED my music.

Hello avenmaven,
Thank you for all the information you provided, and congratulations on your new laptop!
I do not think this has to do with setting up iCloud on your new computer. You might not have the option to manually manage music checked on your devices. This box would need to be checked if you are dragging content over to your iPhone or trying to delete by pressing the delete key:
You can find more information at the full article:
Managing content manually on iPhone, iPad, and iPod
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1535
I hope this gets you back on track! Thank you for using Apple Support Communities.
Best,
Sheila M.

IPod Artist/Album?!

On my 5G iPod, I've noticed that I cannot play songs that are not devoted to a certain album, when there are other albums there.
For example, I see:
Pink Floyd > (automatically selects) "The Wall" > Songs
On my old mini I would see
Pink Floyd > The Wall, All > Songs
I now don't have the "All" option since it defaults to The Wall, it also does it with other artists.
To sum it all up, when an artist has a designated album, and some songs undesignated, I can only play the designated songs.
If there's any way to make this more clear, let me know, it's kind of hard to explain in type.

Im having this same issue. Some of the artist in my ipod were under the names of the album artist. What i wanna know is how can i get them to stay under the name of the ARTIST, not the album artist.

Is there a way to export a searchable list of artists/albums/songs (not the music files, just the text) to my iPhone 4?

Basically, I have an iPod Classic which contains over 17,000 songs. I have a 16 GB iPhone 4. I don't always have the iPod with me, but just about always have the iPhone. Since I am still old school enough to actually buy CDs, I'd like a handily available and searchable list that I can export from iTunes to my iPhone so I can make sure I don't accidentally duplicate a purchase (it happens). I've tried searching the App Store but either I am doing it wrong, or nothing exists as yet. Obviously the phone can't carry all of that music so I am not looking to transfer those files en masse. Just want the lists so I can reference them as needed. Is this a pipe dream or is there actually a way to do this? Thanks in advance...

Sealion64
I just saw your post
Im using Adobe Elements 11 and my movie is a prel file. When I move it an
external hard drive I want to maintain the order of of my movie in its
original time line if possible
The prel file is a project file which will eventually be exported to a file which will be your movie.
If all this involves just changing the location where you save your project files routinely, that is one thing.
But, once you move the source media that go into a project which has been saved closed, then you get
into serious media - project reconnect issues.
When you import media into a project, all you get are copies of the originals that are at a hard drive save location.
But, the project needs to trace back to the originals at the hard drive save location where they were when first
imported into the project.
Moving the project file should not get you into trouble; whereas moving, deleting, renaming source media that went into the project will.
If the project is finished, I can see using the Project Archiver to save it in a Copied Folder (saved to the external hard drive).
But, to work from the Copied Folder on a routine basis needs some thinking about. I would think about pointing your project and
it components to locations of your choice (even the external hard drive) for the "next" project but without involving the Project Archiver until you have finished
with the project and want it safely out of the way.
ATR

Unable to correct Album: 'Song play Order' on iPod

Windows Itunes (version 7.01): Sync to iPod Enabled (manually manage songs & videos box is: UNchecked)
Ipod 5G 60 GB (OS 1.2): Shuffle play set to OFF
When I recently added a new album (of ten songs) into iTunes, I forgot to enter their correct corresponding track number. I subsequently (in iTunes) entered the album artist's name (same for all songs) and corresponding correct track numbers (1 of 10, 2 of 10, etc), with the album's song order now appearing & playing (in iTunes) correctly now.
I then SYNCED my iPod to iTunes, with the iTunes display window confirming that these songs were being updated on my iPod. The artist-album song list order (albeit greyed out) under the "MY iPod" icon in the iTunes Device>Music section also confirmed that the album song order had been succesfully changed. Interestingly enough, I noticed it's NOT possible to CHANGE the song sort category here in the iTunes DEVICE section (always remains on 'artist'), even though I'm able to change the sort category in the iTunes LIBRARY section. I had expected that whatever category was selected in LIBRARY section would be reflected in the DEVICE > MY iPod section as well. Why is this not the case? :confused:
Strangely enough, when I then EJECT my iPod from the PC and call up the above Artist>Album, the album's songs still appear in the original (WRONG) :mad: order as when the album's songs were when initially loaded . What am I doing wrong? Did I miss something here?
How can I get my Album Songs to play in the correct (ammended in iTunes) order, on my iPod too?
Thanks in advance for all help and assistance.
Scotty
iPod 5th Generation 60 GB Windows XP

Hi Snubnog,
Many thanks to your reply and informative link, I now use this succesful work around solution: 1) removing the recently tag edited songs from my iTunes library and then 2): re-importing them back into the iTunes Libary. Following this, and syncing my iPod up to the iTunes library again, my album songs now appear in correct play order.
Thanks again for your help.
Scotty
iPod 5th Generation 60 GB Windows XP

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