Viewing songs by artist on mi

Can you view songs by just the artist and not by artist then albums and then songs.Alot of my songs dont have the album.Or I dont know what album there in.

If you want to see every song by an artist, regardless of Album, then select the Artists menu, scroll down and highlight the Artist, and then click the Play button (instead of tapping the scroll pad again). This will load every song from that artist into the Now Playing playlist.
Now, to scroll through all of the songs from that artist, just tap once on the scroll pad while in the Now Playing screen to get the list.

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How do I search for songs and artists within playlists?

In the Itunes music app on the Ipod touch there are several views (Songs, Playlists, Genius, Artists, etc.) In song view if you swipe down it reveals the search bar. However when you go to Playlist view and choose a specific playlist there is no search bar or option anywhere to search for a specific song, artist, genre etc.
So how the heck do we search within playlists, where is the search bar or where is the option to search in a specific playlist?

Top right hand corner of the store is the search bar. Just type it in, and it shows up.

When locating a song via "Artists," the menu goes straight to albums

I think this has to do with my recent iPod update, as it didn't used to happen- when I scroll through the artist names all are present- but when you select an artist, for many of them (not all, not sure why not) it goes straight to the album of that artist of which you have the most songs. For example I have CCR's Chronicle, Volume 1, and when I go to CCR via Artists it goes straight to the songs in this album: I have no opportunity to hit "All" and view all of the music I have from them. The other songs are available, however by searching through the "Songs" list. That's just incredibly tedious and annoying. Does anyone else know how to fix this or is anyone having similar difficulty? Thanks.

Two things often contribute to this.
One is that some songs might be tagged as Part Of A Compilation (see the Get Info on those songs/albums) in which case they will not show up under the artist.
Second, is that an artist needs at least two different Albums identified for their songs to all list under the artist. In other words, if you import a CD with album name then add a handful of misc songs without album names associated, those handful will not show up under the artist name.
But add an album name to at least one of those handful of misc. songs and then ALL of the songs should show up under the artist.
You don't have to do it for all of them, just enough to have two different albums identified with the artist. But in general, it is a good idea to make sure your tunes have Song name, artist name, and album name associated with them as a minimum.
Patrick

I've found no way to sort. For example, if I type the group "Rush" into the search bar, I get a list of songs recorded by rush and literally thousands of other songs and artists with the word rush in them. There is; however, no way to sort the results.

I've found no way to sort search results in itunes. For example, if I type the group "Rush" into the search bar, I get a list of songs recorded by rush and literally thousands of other songs and artists with the word rush in them. There is; however, no way to sort the results.

In the Search box click on the black Arrow and UNTICK the Search Entire Library.
Then the Search results in Songs view will be displayed in the main Grid and you can sort them by clicking on the column headers.
You can also turn on the column browser which can help with filtering

Song and Artist display differently in landscape mode (iPod on iPhone)

I have a CD Compilation *50 Best Songs Ever*. When I play any song from this Compilation on my iPhone, if I turn the phone to landscape mode the Artist defaults back to the Artist on the 1st track, but if I turn the phone back to upright mode the Artist shows correctly.
This is a CD Compilation of various artists, and the only one it seems to happen to.
Any thoughts?
brenodo
iPhone 1.1.2 (3B34b)

No, the OP is correct, there is some sort of funky bug here. I have noticed it too. To the extent that it is almost comical. In portrait view the song/artist/album artist/album art are all correct; then switch to landscape view and you get a comical mix of songs from different artists, wrong album art (from first one in list) and the name of the song and artist are wrong, and inconsistent with what is playing. Rotate back to portrait view and all is good again.
It is at best a minor inconvenience, and I love my shuffle anyhow, so the randomness of it is sort of fun/funny.
But it is definitely a bug.
Zac

Keyboard shortcut to switch between Song/Album/Artist

Is there a keyboard shortcut for switching between Song/Album/Artist/Composer etc. view in the top right corner of iTunes? If there's not, then consider this a feature request!

Not exactly, but down-arrow will swap the images, and 'z' will always zoom the "select" one, if the "Link Focus" padlock is unlocked. Is that close enough for your needs?
Hal

Can I sort all songs by artist in iPod/iPad's iOS 5?

Issue #1 - Sort by Artist
I have not seen this addressed yet. If it has been, point me in the right direction and I'll be on my way.
As with the former iteration of the iPod (now Music) player on the iPad, you can show Songs, alphabetized by the song title. You can also open a folder view of the Artists, which means you can only see the songs by that artist.
I want to be able to sort ALL songs by artist. Just like in iTunes on my computer.
Let's say I have Elbow and Electronic in my library. Elbow immediately precedes Electronic in an alphabetical list of artists in my library. If I want to listen to all songs by, say, Elbow and then have it play all songs by Electronic, that should be relatively straight forward. I can do it in iTunes, of course.
I assume I could create a new smart playlist that is that is the combination of my other iPad playlists, sort that by artist, and then play from there, but that is a really silly, unnecessary workaround for a simple issue.
Thanks.

Actually, JinKL, doing a search from "Songs" is harder to do and does not give the exact same result. It's harder to do because I have to key an artist's name rather than pick one from a list. The results aren't the same for several reasons. If you key an artist name that matches a song, you get that song, too. OK, that doesn't happen THAT much, but it does happen. And if I key a partial name, say "Morrison" for "Van Morrison", I get all the songs on "Morrison Hotel" by the Doors.
"All Songs" should be added to the iPad music player. While they're at it, they should add column titles and allow allow sorting on the column values.

Just downloaded the latest version of iTunes. Can't find "Power Search" anymore to locate specific songs or artists? Using "Browse" takes waaay too long. Any suggestions?

Just downloaded the latest version of iTunes, but can't find "Power Search" anymore to locate specific songs or artists quickly? "Browse" takes waaay too long. Any suggestions?

http://www.apple.com/feedback/kaywerty wrote:
A rather long winded way of asking if anybody knows if it's possible to have multi-windows open
It's not possible.
Suggestions here -> Apple Product feedback

Missing songs under artist but still in songs

I have uploaded all of my songs and in Itunes all the songs have artists, but they dont show up under that artist name in the ipod. Example in itunes the song is called Charlie and artist is red hot chili peppers but on my Ipod it is not under red hot chili peppers. But if i search for the song under all songs it is still there. Can anyone help?????
HP Windows XP

They need album names.
See: Some songs don't don't show under artist on my iPod.
From what I understand, once you add a second album name for that artist even for a single song, ALL the rest of the songs should now show up under that artist, even those without album names.
Providing the spelling for the artists is exactly the same of course.

How can you get a compilation album to show up as one album rather than be split up but song and artist?

how can you get a compilation album to show up as one album rather than be split up by song and artist? I've got loads of albums on iTunes that are compliations and they are all mixed up by track/ artist. Even when you click 'show album' it still just shows the album title and then the artist in alphabetical order - so the album is replicated several times
Can anyone tell me how to amalgamate compliation albums please?

This web page will help you: http://samsoft.org.uk/iTunes/grouping.asp

My ipod starts voicing song data, artist data, and playlist data while I am listening to music. Is this a feature or a defect? I do not know why it occurs, but the only way to stop it is to stop the music then play the playlist again.

My ipod starts voicing song data, artist data, and playlist data while I am listening to music. Is this a feature or a defect? I do not know why it occurs, but the only way to stop it is to stop the music then play the playlist again.

To make sure voiceover is off, you need to go to summary screen then click the "Configure Universal Access" button. Then you will get a dialog where you can make sure voiceover is off. All of the boxes in the dialog should be unchecked.
i

Why does apple tv music search no longer provides lists of songs or artists based on inputing a few letters?

When using my first generation apple tv and the music search capability, I no longer get a list of options generation when inputing a few letters of a song or artist. In the past (up until a month or two ago) if I input "led" in the search, I would immediately get many options of songs, artists, etc. showing up in the search screen. Now, if I put in "led" I must go to the next "page" and it will provide a much more limited selection. If I don't know the exact name of an artist or song, searching becomes less of an actual search and more of, you better know exactly what you are looking for or you won't find it. I was told by a service rep that there must have been a software upgrade that changed this function. Does anybody have any info to confirm that, or is there some other problem? I've updated all the software, rebooted the system, etc. If it's a change to the function, it has renedered it almost useless, and that's a shame

I have exactly the same problem. I already did a factory restore! How can this be fixed?

How to view songs that are not in any playlist

I am using iTunes 6.04.
I want to be able to view songs in my Library that are not associated with ANY playlist. How can this be done? Please don't suggest to me upgrading to iTunes 7.02. (with every iTunes update, Apple makes is more difficult to do the things Apple doesn't want you to be able to do).
Thanks
Ben

Please be patient. If you don't get a reply within a few hours, obviously nobody passed by who knew the answer to your question.
After all we're just fellow users trying to help as these are user-to-user forums.
I have an answer.
Run one of these scripts:
Not In Any Playlist will create a text listing of songs that are not in any playlist.
Not In Any Playlist To Playlist will put songs that are not in any playlist into a new playlist.
Hope this helps.
M
17' iMac 800 MHz, 768 MB RAM, 200 GB HD, DL burner Mac OS X (10.4.8) iTunes 7.0.2

Feature Request: iTunes to merge the "Song Name" & "Artist" fields

This is a feature request that i would like to see in a future release of iTunes. The option to merge the "Song Name" & "Artist" fields together. This would be a very valuable option when surfing your iTunes Library thru your iPod, Front Row, or Apple TV.
Let me explain:
Not everyone knows at the top of their head who sings a particular song. This is especially true when someone other than the owner of the iTunes Library is browsing through it.
Let's say that I want to browse my ENTIRE music collection all at once. The easiest way to do this, is by browsing thru the "Songs" list because it creates 1 massive list displaying ALL the songs in the library, without having to jump into different fields. The current problem with this, is, it only lists the name of the song. There are 2 problems with this philosophy. #1 - You must know who sings the songs to have any chance of making this a useful option because the artist is not displayed. #2 - It puts them in alphabetical based on the song name. Once again, not a very useful way to make this option really functional because you will have the Artists all over the map! Keeping the Artist's songs together makes it a much more feasable option.
The solution, I feel, would be to have iTunes create an "Option" that would allow users like me to make iTunes merge the "Artist" & "Name" fields together. Make it an option so that users who do not see the benefit to this, would not have to use it. By doing this, I could now surf my ENTIRE collection via the "Songs" field in a very logical approach.
For an example, let's take a song: Artist - "Def Leppard" & Song Name - "Pour Some Sugar On Me". By clicking this option, when browsing thru the "Songs" field, it would now display as: Def Leppard - Pour Some Sugar On Me. This allows me to browse my ENTIRE library while at the same time, keeping "like" songs together, and making it very easy to distinguish whether or not it is a song I want to select. By knowing that Def Leppard is a Rock Artist, it helps to distinguish the song.
I work for a custom AV integration shop that has put hundreds of music servers into homes. We have been teaching our clients the benefits of this for some time now, with great feedback. The only problem presently, is it requires the users to have to re-edit every single file by putting the Artist's Name & the Song Title into the "Name" field of iTunes. Very time consuming! As well, because you also have the "Artists" name entered in the "Artist" field, you get Front Row displaying the "Artist" name twice, once in the song name, and once in the artist's field.
Any feedback would be welcomed.
Regards,
Trevor

You might be able to get where you want using Chaotic Software's MediaRage. It can automate and batch tag editing, including building a Title tag that combines Artist and Title and, to possibly address you other problem, blanking the Artist tag.
MediaRage is not expensive and it is very powerful, you can even define regexs for how to parse tags.
HTH. - Tom

Song and Artist Name does not display in MiniPlayer

iTunes 11.0.0.163. In MiniPlayer, Song and Artist Name only appears when i play chinese songs, English names does not appear.

this will answer your question:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4577261?start=0&tstart=0

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