Various Artist Don't Display

In iOS4 and previous if you set the album artist for a whole album that had various artists to one thing (such as Various Artists) then when you sort you would only see one album. Now, that doesn't seem to be the case. No matter what I try to change, sort artist, album artist, sort album artist, ad nauseum it still displays an album for each artist. the only thing I could get to work is if I selected compilation then at least when I selected one it had the whole album. Anyone else run into this?

I may have a fix, but you probably won't like it. if you purchased the music from itunes, or if itunes has the artwork, you can simply go to Advanced tab and Get Album Artwork. If not you can do one of two things. If it is from a cd that you still have, you can try reimporting it into itunes. Or, go online, like to Amazon, find your album, copy the artwork.
In itunes, go to the album that has no album art on your iphone. Select all the songs, right click, select Get Info. In the box where artwork should be, you will see an empty box. Select the check box next to it and click ok. It will delete the artwork that is there, but it really isn't there. Either the file is corrupt or it is gone. I think itunes is just displaying what was there. What is strange is, in the cases where I have a two volume album, and only one didn't show artwork on my phone, I couldn't copy the artwork from the volume that had the artwork and paste it into the one that didn't. I had do get new artwork externally.
After you have done that, you should still have all the songs selected, so just right click again and select Get Info. Right click in the artwork box, and paste the artwork you previously copied, and say ok. Your artwork should be displayed, and you can resync your phone to download it to your phone. Repeat as necessary.

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Unknown Artists Don't Display without Album Info.....THIS IS RIDICULOUS!

I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS!
If a song does not have an album title, under the artist menu, you don't see these songs!!!
With my 4th gen iPod I got a submenu under artists that said "All" along with any albums associated with that artist....with my new 5th gen iPod Video I can only see Albums under the artists menu....if all the album info is removed then I can see all songs....this is SO stupid!
I know others have said that this is the way it is...
but do the developers have any idea about this? This is simply put a STUPID BUG!
Is there a forum or mailing list to send bug reports????

What I did was to give all songs an album name:
Sort the library by album in itunes by clicking on the column header.
Select all the songs with no album name - select the first song, hold down shift, select the last song.
Hit ctrl-i to get the info box.
Enter album name of "None" and click ok.
Now everyone shows up.

How do I get itunes to comile various artists cds?

I am new to the posting, so please fogive me if this has already been answered. My kids and I put a lot of compilation albums on our itunes like the Now that's what I call music-where the album is the same name, but the artists are all different. On my older version of itunes, as long as I had clicked on the album info that it was part of a compilation, it would put all of the tracks together. Now on the updated version it will seperate the tracks by artists even though the album info lists it as a compilation. How do I change this?

Hi,
The post I referred you to earlier tries to deal with quite a large number of potential causes for "split" albums. I've tried to keep it brief while giving sufficient detail to explain each problem and the suggested workarounds.
*One album, too many covers*
For true compilations, where each track is by a different artist, the answer is to set the compilation flag to true and enable the iTunes preference to *Group compilations when browsing.*
Expanding this rather brief statement to address your specific problem first confirm that the "Group compilations when browsing" feature is turned on. Use the menu item *Edit > Preferences* to open the Preferences dialog, select the Advanced tab and ensure there is a tick against "Group compilations when browsing" (3rd option up from the bottom). If you've added the tick, click OK to confirm the change, otherwise you can cancel.
Next confirm that you are using an "Album-friendly" view to look at your tracks. Select *View > List* to switch to the list view. If you don't have a section showing Genres, Artists & Albums use *View > Show Browser* to turn this on. Right-click on the track column headings to reveal a list of attributes that can be displayed. Click on any of the following that are not already ticked to turn them on; *Album, Album Artist, Artist, Disk Number, Track Number*. Repeat until all of these fields are shown. Click on the heading of the Album column one or more times until it reads *Album by Artist*.
For each compilation album, select it's name in the top-right browser window, then click on one of the tracks to move the focus to the Tracks pane. You can now select all the tracks of the album with CTRL-A, then open the "Get Info" dialog with CTRL-I. On the Info tab change/set the *Album Artist* to *Various Artists*. On the Options tab, set the *Part of a compilation* value to Yes. Click OK.
For the *Now That's What I Call Music Series* or other albums containing multiple discs that are displaying as multiple covers (e.g. Now That's... 61, Disc 1, Now That's... 61 Disc 2), select the tracks of each disc in turn and make sure that the correct *Disc X of Y* values are set. Then select all the tracks of all of the discs of the album and type in the overall album title to merge the albums together. Incidentally, for this series I find it much easier to use the shortened "Now ##" title as with the full title you can't tell one from another in the album section of the browser.
You should find that albums are now properly kept together in other "Album-friendly" views whether list, grid or cover flow based. Just don't expect them to stay together if you sort on columns such as Track Name, Artist, Disc No. Date Added, etc.
tt2

Artist is NOT displayed for some artists on my Nano

Even though it is displayed on my itunes, the artist Michael McDonald is NOT displayed on my IPOD Nano, His album IS displayed on my ipon Nano. It's irritating becasue I remember artist names better than album names.
I went to itunes and checked the iinfo on the file. It was ok. Tried resinking and even erasing and resyning. Did not work. WHAT IS UP. Haven't done a complete search to figure out how many other artists dont show up on my Nano. This is the first one.

There are usually two things that contribute to songs not appearing under Artist on the iPod, both due to information either in or missing from the Get Info>Info tab against the song in iTunes. 1) the song has no album name associated with it or 2) the song is marked as part of a compilation.
If tracks are missing an Album name in the Info tab, this information needs to be filled in. The no album one is a bit quirky as the songs will appear under certain circumstances (for instance I read somewhere that if you have at least two tracks with different album names the rest will appear), however the simplest remedy is just add None or Miscellaneous to all the blanks in place of a title. See this link for more detail: I don't see some of my songs when browsing by artist on my iPod
Also if the tracks are ticked in the Get Info>Info tab as part of a compilation, they will not appear under Artist on the iPod. Highlight a song in iTunes that you know is not appearing correctly on your iPod. Right click on it and choose Get Info and click the Info tab (alternatively choose Get Info from the File menu), if "Part of a Compilation" is marked untick it and afterwards update your iPod, you should find it now appears as normal. Setting "Compilations" on your iPod main menu prevents you getting lots of single artist entries when you load an album by various artists.

TS1468 If all tracks on an album are written by one artist, but have other supporting artists, can I group them all as one album under the original artist without having to group them as a compilation and being called "Various Artists"?

I'm pretty sure I've tried all the suggestions I've found, but I can't seem to find a satisfactory option.
I'll use a CD I just bought as an example. I just bought "The Best of Sergio Mendes", all songs are written by Sergio Mendes, but some include Brasil '66. iTunes thinks this album is a compilation, but I really just want to group it all as Sergio Mendes rather than Various Artists, but I still want to have the information about which songs include Brasil '66. For some reason the tab "Sorting" does absolutely nothing, but it seems like the idea behind it would be really useful if it actually worked... Is there a way of doing this or will I have to settle with a more confusing or less informative option? I feel like this must be possible, or else it's a pretty big flaw for me as I have a fair few albums this would apply to.
Thanks in advance for any help.

Indeed, generally all you need to do is fill in an appropriate Album Artist. For more details see my article on Grouping Tracks Into Albums, in particular the topic One album, too many covers.
Don't try to use sort fields to merge different things together as it quickly goes wrong. These should be used consistently to make all things with one value sort as if they had a different one, e.g. Bowie, David to make David Bowie sort under B.
tt2

Albums with various artists down load as 13 separate items. How do I rejoin them as an album?

When I import some compilation albums into my Itunes it seperates them out into seperate "albums" how can I "re-join".

Make sure "artist" and "album artist" are the same.
You only need make sure they all have an identical "album artist" to get them to group together. This can be anything as long as it is the same -- even "various artists" for a true compilation. This is designed so you can keep different artists in the artist field but still have tracks group together. In fact if you do make the artist fields identical, the album would group together in the first place and you don't need to touch album artist. However, there may be cases where you do not want to put the identical artist in the artist field, then you need to either flag them as compilation (as indicated in another post) or give them all a single album artist.

Itunes renaming songs and tracks to the incorrect ones, e.g. renaming all Various Artists to be Gym Class Heroes when played on my ipod, and incorrectly renaming tracks at random.

Also some songs are imported twice and named different things? I dont know why itunes has done this, and its on purchased products mainly.
I have switched back all the various artists defaults once, and it has just switched it back when synced with my ipod. How can i solve this issue?

There may be some inconsistency in the capitalizations, or some of the tracks may be marked as Disc 1 of 1 while others are Disc <Blank> of <Blank> See Grouping tracks into albums for more details.
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Imported CD artists not listed individually, I found them under "various artists". How can I change the way rs? thanksthey import and edit the current erro

Imported CDs are being labeled as "various artists" not by the actual artists name. Why is this happening and how do I fix it? Thank you, J

Highlight a track and press command ( or ⌘ key) and the letter "i" at the same time to enter the editor window.
Use shift+click to select a range of trakcs, or command+click to select multiple individual tracks.
Various artists is often used where an album has several artist on it (read links below). If you don't group them some way then you will find multiple albums listed in iTunes with each one being an artist on the main album. The individual artists should still appear in the artist window but it is possible the database used to label your CD was incorrect. CDs do not have the information on them, they get it from an Internet database. Anybody can submit track names so you don't always get good ones.
Why aren't songs with the same album art grouped together? - http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1468
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4559720 - discussion of using compilation vs. album artist to group tracks

When browsing my artists in iTunes, why is there multiple Various Artists?

I am in the process of organizing my iTunes, and came across a problem.
Under the artists tab of iTunes 11 I have two different options for my Various Artists (i.e. Soundracks and complilations). I tried to see if there was a difference in any of the other fields that would cause a split, but can't find any.
Is there a way to merge the two? So all of my soundtracks are in the same place?

It is hard to assess the situation without sitting at your computer and having a look myself. First, if you're seeing space savings I doubt all your files are a compressed format. Frequently if you try compressing a compressed format file such as AAC (don't confuse with AIFF) you will actually find the file gets larger because there is overhead to compression and if it cannot compress any more then you end up just adding overhead on top of no savings. Second, normally if you zip the iTunes library it would basically make it inaccessible to iTunes and iTunes would make you a brand new library or at least flag all your tracks as missing (as you are seeing ain part).
I don't know what computer you are running, which operating system, which version of iTunes. Unless they have done something radical in Lion in terms of letting you zip your iTunes folder and still have it functional, you either didn't zip the whole thing, or... I don't know. One scenario is that somehow your media have been split up and you have them in several locations. One isn't really part of your library except for 80 tracks, so when you compressed it (and I still am puzzled by the compression unless it was AIFF files you were no longer using), it didn't really make much difference to the playability. Then you have an untouched library elsewhere.
Use the Reveal In Finder command to see where some of those problem files are located vs. where the playable files are located.

Search not finding artists in various artist albums

Using "Search Library" in iTunes 11.0.1, if an artist is in an album of various artists, search will not find this artist even if the artist tag is filled out in the Get Info box.
Same thing if you select the Artist tab at the top of the screen, artists that are in various artists albums will not show up in the list. This can't be right, right?

Switch to the one without artwork - List - and make sure that the Grouping is visible. Now switch back to *Album List* view. I think you will find that search matches with items in the grouping field now.
It seems that the problem goes back to introduction of the separate "List" & "Album List" views around iTunes 10.0.1 - see this thread: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2614427&start=0&tstart=0
Essentially text in certain columns is meant to be excluded from search when those fields are hidden however in this case iTunes is reading visibility from one view while another view displays the column in question, on screen, in front of your eyes. It is very counter-intuitive.
Note that after switching views and enabling/disabling columns you also need to edit any existing search term you have entered in order for the results to be updated.
tt2

Some albums getting listed as Various Artist in Cover flow only

eg
Velvet Revolver - Contraband
Husker Du -Land Speed Record
The Killers - Sawdust
The above albums appear in the Correct place under the artists name in Portrait mode on the ipod but, when viewed in cover flow - the appear as being "various artists"
I have 32gb 3.5gs
Anyone know how to fix this?
I have re-type the artists name, then re-sync - still appears in the same place

I had the same problem after I updated to the most recent 3.0 firmware on my iPhone 3G.
I managed to fix the same problem you describe by:
1) Making sure the "Part of a Compilation" field is set to "No". For multiple files, you select them, "Get Info" and on the "Options" tab, you will see this setting. For one file, it will be on the "Info" page.
2) Making sure "Album Artist" is either blank or set correctly.
Number 2 only came up on 1 or 2 albums that were not displaying properly on CoverFlow (i.e., showing up under "Various Artists"). Number 1 is what fixed the rest of my albums (around 10 full albums or so).
Hope this helps other people. To save time, I would suggest using the Shift button to select the entire album and do what I recommend under #1.
Cheers.

Why are albums that have various artists appearing as separate albums for each track?

why are albums that have various artists appearing as separate albums for each track?

Check the tags via the info panel on each system.
You may see that one version has settings for 'Disk x of y' disks.
There are other fields that should be compared too, like 'grouping'. You also need to be certain the playlist (or the Library) are sorted by the same criteria e.g. by 'album' is different to 'album by artist' etc. That can cause unexpected differences in the way it displays.
I suspect match has given you iTunes copies of the files with Apple's own metadata whilst your originals are from CD with your custom tags.

Various artists problems not showing in Itunes music folder in Windows 7

Hi
I can dispay and play Albums that are by various artists in my iTunes Albums Library. Also all songs are displayed in iTunes Songs List
and shown as Various Artists
But when I look in Libraries>Music>iTunes>iTunes Media> Music
there are no names called ' Various Artists'
Any ideas why this is

You're welcome.
Tips on fixing up your iTunes listings at Grouping tracks into albums.
tt2

All my songs by certian artists don't appear under their names, but all their songs appear under 'all songs'

So when I search for a specific artist on my phone, say, Whitney Houston, I only see like 3 or 4 songs, but when I go to see all the songs on my iphone, all her other music is there.
I've checked my music on iTunes on my mac and I see that her name is spelled correctly for all songs and none are checked off with "skip when shuffling" or anything like that.
I've noticed the same issue for other artists too. My songs appear under all songs, but not always under their artist name.
What can I do so all my songs appear under their artist name?

There are usually two things that contribute to songs not appearing under Artist on the iPod, both due to information either in or missing from the Get Info>Info tab against the song in iTunes. 1) the song has no album name associated with it or 2) the song is marked as part of a compilation.
If tracks are missing an Album name in the Info tab, this information needs to be filled in. The no album one is a bit quirky as the songs will appear under certain circumstances (for instance I read somewhere that if you have at least two tracks with different album names the rest will appear), however the simplest remedy is just add None or Miscellaneous to all the blanks in place of a title. See this link for more detail: I don't see some of my songs when browsing by artist on my iPod
Also if the tracks are ticked in the Get Info>Info tab as part of a compilation, they will not appear under Artist on the iPod. Highlight a song in iTunes that you know is not appearing correctly on your iPod. Right click on it and choose Get Info and click the Info tab (alternatively choose Get Info from the File menu), if "Part of a Compilation" is marked untick it and afterwards update your iPod, you should find it now appears as normal. Setting "Compilations" on your iPod main menu prevents you getting lots of single artist entries when you load an album by various artists.

Ipad various artists names listed

I have several hundred songs from various decades which I sort by various artists by the decade - 1970's 1990's etc, but since ios7 the artists name is not displayed and also are in a random order

Connect your iPad to iTunes, sort your music according to your criteria, then sync.
Also check Settings > Music > Group By Album Artist > On or Off = your choice.

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