Why aren't my artists and songs in alphabetical order?

I have Apple iPod Touch Gen 4~
This is what my Artist list looks like and my song list isn't any better. It's not a major problem but it's quite irritating.
I've seen solutions like reset your iPod but they said it was only a temporary solution.
Anyone have a good solution?

Your image files are pointing to your hard drive, not your server. You have this
background-image: url(file:///Macintosh%20HD/Users/jimmymoreira/Unnamed%20Site%204/imag es/opaqueMaincontent.png);
and you should have this
background-image: url(imag es/opaqueMaincontent.png);
Also, is your images file named imag es?
Gary

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Here's my rc.lua
-- Standard awesome library
local gears = require("gears")
local awful = require("awful")
awful.rules = require("awful.rules")
require("awful.autofocus")
-- Widget and layout library
local wibox = require("wibox")
local vicious = require("vicious")
-- Theme handling library
local beautiful = require("beautiful")
-- Notification library
local naughty = require("naughty")
local menubar = require("menubar")
-- {{{ Error handling
-- Check if awesome encountered an error during startup and fell back to
-- another config (This code will only ever execute for the fallback config)
if awesome.startup_errors then
naughty.notify({ preset = naughty.config.presets.critical,
title = "Oops, there were errors during startup!",
text = awesome.startup_errors })
end
-- Handle runtime errors after startup
do
local in_error = false
awesome.connect_signal("debug::error", function (err)
-- Make sure we don't go into an endless error loop
if in_error then return end
in_error = true
naughty.notify({ preset = naughty.config.presets.critical,
title = "Oops, an error happened!",
text = err })
in_error = false
end)
end
-- {{{ Variable definitions
-- Themes define colours, icons, and wallpapers
beautiful.init("/usr/share/awesome/themes/zenburn/theme.lua")
-- This is used later as the default terminal and editor to run.
terminal = "tilda"
editor = "gedit"
-- os.getenv("EDITOR") or
editor_cmd = terminal .. " -e " .. editor
-- Default modkey.
-- Usually, Mod4 is the key with a logo between Control and Alt.
-- If you do not like this or do not have such a key,
-- I suggest you to remap Mod4 to another key using xmodmap or other tools.
-- However, you can use another modifier like Mod1, but it may interact with others.
modkey = "Mod4"
-- Table of layouts to cover with awful.layout.inc, order matters.
local layouts =
awful.layout.suit.floating,
awful.layout.suit.tile,
awful.layout.suit.tile.left,
awful.layout.suit.tile.bottom,
awful.layout.suit.tile.top,
awful.layout.suit.fair,
awful.layout.suit.fair.horizontal,
awful.layout.suit.spiral,
awful.layout.suit.spiral.dwindle,
awful.layout.suit.max,
awful.layout.suit.max.fullscreen,
awful.layout.suit.magnifier
-- {{{ Wallpaper
if beautiful.wallpaper then
for s = 1, screen.count() do
gears.wallpaper.maximized(beautiful.wallpaper, s, true)
end
end
-- {{{ Tags
-- Define a tag table which will hold all screen tags.
tags = {}
for s = 1, screen.count() do
-- Each screen has its own tag table.
tags[s] = awful.tag({"term", "www", "mp3", "skype", "office", "dev", "misc" }, s)
end
-- {{{ Menu
-- Create a laucher widget and a main menu
myawesomemenu = {
{ "manual", terminal .. " -e man awesome" },
{ "edit config", editor_cmd .. " " .. awesome.conffile },
{ "reboot", "gksudo reboot" },
{ "restart", awesome.restart },
{ "quit", awesome.quit }
mymainmenu = awful.menu({ items = { { "awesome", myawesomemenu, beautiful.awesome_icon },
{ "open terminal", terminal }
mylauncher = awful.widget.launcher({ image = beautiful.awesome_icon,
menu = mymainmenu })
-- Menubar configuration
menubar.utils.terminal = terminal -- Set the terminal for applications that require it
-- Initialize widget
mpdwidget = wibox.widget.textbox()
-- Register widget
vicious.register(mpdwidget, vicious.widgets.mpd,
function (mpdwidget, args)
if args["{state}"] == "Stop" then
return " - "
else
return args["{Artist}"]..' - '.. args["{Title}"]
end
end, 10)
-- {{{ Wibox
-- Create a textclock widget
mytextclock = awful.widget.textclock()
-- Create a wibox for each screen and add it
mywibox = {}
mypromptbox = {}
mylayoutbox = {}
mytaglist = {}
mytaglist.buttons = awful.util.table.join(
awful.button({ }, 1, awful.tag.viewonly),
awful.button({ modkey }, 1, awful.client.movetotag),
awful.button({ }, 3, awful.tag.viewtoggle),
awful.button({ modkey }, 3, awful.client.toggletag),
awful.button({ }, 4, function(t) awful.tag.viewnext(awful.tag.getscreen(t)) end),
awful.button({ }, 5, function(t) awful.tag.viewprev(awful.tag.getscreen(t)) end)
mytasklist = {}
mytasklist.buttons = awful.util.table.join(
awful.button({ }, 1, function (c)
if c == client.focus then
c.minimized = true
else
-- Without this, the following
-- :isvisible() makes no sense
c.minimized = false
if not c:isvisible() then
awful.tag.viewonly(c:tags()[1])
end
-- This will also un-minimize
-- the client, if needed
client.focus = c
c:raise()
end
end),
awful.button({ }, 3, function ()
if instance then
instance:hide()
instance = nil
else
instance = awful.menu.clients({ width=250 })
end
end),
awful.button({ }, 4, function ()
awful.client.focus.byidx(1)
if client.focus then client.focus:raise() end
end),
awful.button({ }, 5, function ()
awful.client.focus.byidx(-1)
if client.focus then client.focus:raise() end
end))
for s = 1, screen.count() do
-- Create a promptbox for each screen
mypromptbox[s] = awful.widget.prompt()
-- Create an imagebox widget which will contains an icon indicating which layout we're using.
-- We need one layoutbox per screen.
mylayoutbox[s] = awful.widget.layoutbox(s)
mylayoutbox[s]:buttons(awful.util.table.join(
awful.button({ }, 1, function () awful.layout.inc(layouts, 1) end),
awful.button({ }, 3, function () awful.layout.inc(layouts, -1) end),
awful.button({ }, 4, function () awful.layout.inc(layouts, 1) end),
awful.button({ }, 5, function () awful.layout.inc(layouts, -1) end)))
-- Create a taglist widget
mytaglist[s] = awful.widget.taglist(s, awful.widget.taglist.filter.all, mytaglist.buttons)
-- Create a tasklist widget
mytasklist[s] = awful.widget.tasklist(s, awful.widget.tasklist.filter.currenttags, mytasklist.buttons)
-- Create the wibox
mywibox[s] = awful.wibox({ position = "top", screen = s })
-- Widgets that are aligned to the left
local left_layout = wibox.layout.fixed.horizontal()
left_layout:add(mylauncher)
left_layout:add(mytaglist[s])
left_layout:add(mypromptbox[s])
-- Widgets that are aligned to the right
local right_layout = wibox.layout.fixed.horizontal()
right_layout:add(mpdwidget)
if s == 1 then right_layout:add(wibox.widget.systray()) end
right_layout:add(mytextclock)
right_layout:add(mylayoutbox[s])
-- Now bring it all together (with the tasklist in the middle)
local layout = wibox.layout.align.horizontal()
layout:set_left(left_layout)
layout:set_middle(mytasklist[s])
layout:set_right(right_layout)
mywibox[s]:set_widget(layout)
end
-- {{{ Mouse bindings
root.buttons(awful.util.table.join(
awful.button({ }, 3, function () mymainmenu:toggle() end),
awful.button({ }, 4, awful.tag.viewnext),
awful.button({ }, 5, awful.tag.viewprev)
-- {{{ Key bindings
globalkeys = awful.util.table.join(
awful.key({ modkey, }, "Left", awful.tag.viewprev ),
awful.key({ modkey, }, "Right", awful.tag.viewnext ),
awful.key({ modkey, }, "Escape", awful.tag.history.restore),
awful.key({ modkey, }, "j",
function ()
awful.client.focus.byidx( 1)
if client.focus then client.focus:raise() end
end),
awful.key({ modkey, }, "k",
function ()
awful.client.focus.byidx(-1)
if client.focus then client.focus:raise() end
end),
awful.key({ modkey, }, "w", function () mymainmenu:show() end),
-- Layout manipulation
awful.key({ modkey, "Shift" }, "j", function () awful.client.swap.byidx( 1) end),
awful.key({ modkey, "Shift" }, "k", function () awful.client.swap.byidx( -1) end),
awful.key({ modkey, "Control" }, "j", function () awful.screen.focus_relative( 1) end),
awful.key({ modkey, "Control" }, "k", function () awful.screen.focus_relative(-1) end),
awful.key({ modkey, }, "u", awful.client.urgent.jumpto),
awful.key({ modkey, }, "Tab",
function ()
awful.client.focus.history.previous()
if client.focus then
client.focus:raise()
end
end),
-- Standard program
awful.key({ modkey, }, "Return", function () awful.util.spawn(terminal) end),
awful.key({ modkey, "Control" }, "r", awesome.restart),
awful.key({ modkey, "Shift" }, "q", awesome.quit),
awful.key({ modkey, }, "l", function () awful.tag.incmwfact( 0.05) end),
awful.key({ modkey, }, "h", function () awful.tag.incmwfact(-0.05) end),
awful.key({ modkey, "Shift" }, "h", function () awful.tag.incnmaster( 1) end),
awful.key({ modkey, "Shift" }, "l", function () awful.tag.incnmaster(-1) end),
awful.key({ modkey, "Control" }, "h", function () awful.tag.incncol( 1) end),
awful.key({ modkey, "Control" }, "l", function () awful.tag.incncol(-1) end),
awful.key({ modkey, }, "space", function () awful.layout.inc(layouts, 1) end),
awful.key({ modkey, "Shift" }, "space", function () awful.layout.inc(layouts, -1) end),
awful.key({ modkey, "Control" }, "n", awful.client.restore),
-- Prompt
awful.key({ modkey }, "r", function () mypromptbox[mouse.screen]:run() end),
awful.key({ modkey }, "x",
function ()
awful.prompt.run({ prompt = "Run Lua code: " },
mypromptbox[mouse.screen].widget,
awful.util.eval, nil,
awful.util.getdir("cache") .. "/history_eval")
end),
-- Menubar
awful.key({ modkey }, "p", function() menubar.show() end)
clientkeys = awful.util.table.join(
awful.key({ modkey, }, "f", function (c) c.fullscreen = not c.fullscreen end),
awful.key({ modkey, "Shift" }, "c", function (c) c:kill() end),
awful.key({ modkey, "Control" }, "space", awful.client.floating.toggle ),
awful.key({ modkey, "Control" }, "Return", function (c) c:swap(awful.client.getmaster()) end),
awful.key({ modkey, }, "o", awful.client.movetoscreen ),
awful.key({ modkey, }, "t", function (c) c.ontop = not c.ontop end),
awful.key({ modkey, }, "n",
function (c)
-- The client currently has the input focus, so it cannot be
-- minimized, since minimized clients can't have the focus.
c.minimized = true
end),
awful.key({ modkey, }, "m",
function (c)
c.maximized_horizontal = not c.maximized_horizontal
c.maximized_vertical = not c.maximized_vertical
end)
-- Bind all key numbers to tags.
-- Be careful: we use keycodes to make it works on any keyboard layout.
-- This should map on the top row of your keyboard, usually 1 to 9.
for i = 1, 9 do
globalkeys = awful.util.table.join(globalkeys,
awful.key({ modkey }, "#" .. i + 9,
function ()
local screen = mouse.screen
local tag = awful.tag.gettags(screen)[i]
if tag then
awful.tag.viewonly(tag)
end
end),
awful.key({ modkey, "Control" }, "#" .. i + 9,
function ()
local screen = mouse.screen
local tag = awful.tag.gettags(screen)[i]
if tag then
awful.tag.viewtoggle(tag)
end
end),
awful.key({ modkey, "Shift" }, "#" .. i + 9,
function ()
if client.focus then
local tag = awful.tag.gettags(client.focus.screen)[i]
if tag then
awful.client.movetotag(tag)
end
end
end),
awful.key({ modkey, "Control", "Shift" }, "#" .. i + 9,
function ()
if client.focus then
local tag = awful.tag.gettags(client.focus.screen)[i]
if tag then
awful.client.toggletag(tag)
end
end
end))
end
clientbuttons = awful.util.table.join(
awful.button({ }, 1, function (c) client.focus = c; c:raise() end),
awful.button({ modkey }, 1, awful.mouse.client.move),
awful.button({ modkey }, 3, awful.mouse.client.resize))
-- Set keys
root.keys(globalkeys)
-- {{{ Rules
awful.rules.rules = {
-- All clients will match this rule.
{ rule = { },
properties = { border_width = beautiful.border_width,
border_color = beautiful.border_normal,
focus = awful.client.focus.filter,
keys = clientkeys,
buttons = clientbuttons } },
{ rule = { class = "MPlayer" },
properties = { floating = true } },
{ rule = { class = "pinentry" },
properties = { floating = true } },
{ rule = { class = "gimp" },
properties = { floating = true } },
-- Set Firefox to always map on tags number 2 of screen 1.
{ rule = { class = "Firefox" },
properties = { tag = tags[2] } },
-- {{{ Signals
-- Signal function to execute when a new client appears.
client.connect_signal("manage", function (c, startup)
-- Enable sloppy focus
c:connect_signal("mouse::enter", function(c)
if awful.layout.get(c.screen) ~= awful.layout.suit.magnifier
and awful.client.focus.filter(c) then
client.focus = c
end
end)
if not startup then
-- Set the windows at the slave,
-- i.e. put it at the end of others instead of setting it master.
-- awful.client.setslave(c)
-- Put windows in a smart way, only if they does not set an initial position.
if not c.size_hints.user_position and not c.size_hints.program_position then
awful.placement.no_overlap(c)
awful.placement.no_offscreen(c)
end
end
local titlebars_enabled = false
if titlebars_enabled and (c.type == "normal" or c.type == "dialog") then
-- buttons for the titlebar
local buttons = awful.util.table.join(
awful.button({ }, 1, function()
client.focus = c
c:raise()
awful.mouse.client.move(c)
end),
awful.button({ }, 3, function()
client.focus = c
c:raise()
awful.mouse.client.resize(c)
end)
-- Widgets that are aligned to the left
local left_layout = wibox.layout.fixed.horizontal()
left_layout:add(awful.titlebar.widget.iconwidget(c))
left_layout:buttons(buttons)
-- Widgets that are aligned to the right
local right_layout = wibox.layout.fixed.horizontal()
right_layout:add(awful.titlebar.widget.floatingbutton(c))
right_layout:add(awful.titlebar.widget.maximizedbutton(c))
right_layout:add(awful.titlebar.widget.stickybutton(c))
right_layout:add(awful.titlebar.widget.ontopbutton(c))
right_layout:add(awful.titlebar.widget.closebutton(c))
-- The title goes in the middle
local middle_layout = wibox.layout.flex.horizontal()
local title = awful.titlebar.widget.titlewidget(c)
title:set_align("center")
middle_layout:add(title)
middle_layout:buttons(buttons)
-- Now bring it all together
local layout = wibox.layout.align.horizontal()
layout:set_left(left_layout)
layout:set_right(right_layout)
layout:set_middle(middle_layout)
awful.titlebar(c):set_widget(layout)
end
end)
client.connect_signal("focus", function(c) c.border_color = beautiful.border_focus end)
client.connect_signal("unfocus", function(c) c.border_color = beautiful.border_normal end)
function run_once(prg,arg_string,pname,screen)
if not prg then
do return nil end
end
if not pname then
pname = prg
end
if not arg_string then
awful.util.spawn_with_shell("pgrep -f -u $USER -x '" .. pname .. "' || (" .. prg .. ")",screen)
else
awful.util.spawn_with_shell("pgrep -f -u $USER -x '" .. pname .. " ".. arg_string .."' || (" .. prg .. " " .. arg_string .. ")",screen)
end
end
awful.util.spawn_with_shell("setxkbmap -layout se")
run_once("tilda",nil,nil,"term")
run_once("firefox &",nil,nil,"www")
run_once("clementine ",nil,nil,"mp3")
run_once("skype ",nil,nil,"skype")
run_once("dropboxd &",nil,nil,nil)
run_once("keepassx ",nil,nil,"www")
run_once("volumeicon &",nil,nil,nil)
awesome.font = "DejaVuSansCondensed 12"
Here's my mpd.lua:
-- Licensed under the GNU General Public License v2
-- * (c) 2010, Adrian C. <[email protected]>
-- {{{ Grab environment
local tonumber = tonumber
local io = { popen = io.popen }
local setmetatable = setmetatable
local string = { gmatch = string.gmatch }
local helpers = require("vicious.helpers")
-- Mpd: provides Music Player Daemon information
-- vicious.widgets.mpd
local mpd = {}
-- {{{ MPD widget type
local function worker(format, warg)
local mpd_state = {
["{volume}"] = 0,
["{state}"] = "N/A",
["{Artist}"] = "N/A",
["{Title}"] = "N/A",
["{Album}"] = "N/A",
["{Genre}"] = "N/A",
--["{Name}"] = "N/A",
--["{file}"] = "N/A",
-- Fallback to MPD defaults
local pass = warg and (warg.password or warg[1]) or "\"\""
local host = warg and (warg.host or warg[2]) or "127.0.0.1"
local port = warg and (warg.port or warg[3]) or "6600"
-- Construct MPD client options
local mpdh = "telnet://"..host..":"..port
local echo = "echo 'password "..pass.."\nstatus\ncurrentsong\nclose'"
-- Get data from MPD server
local f = io.popen(echo.." | curl --connect-timeout 1 -fsm 3 "..mpdh)
for line in f:lines() do
for k, v in string.gmatch(line, "([%w]+):[%s](.*)$") do
if k == "volume" then mpd_state["{"..k.."}"] = v and tonumber(v)
elseif k == "state" then mpd_state["{"..k.."}"] = helpers.capitalize(v)
elseif k == "Artist" then mpd_state["{"..k.."}"] = helpers.escape(v)
elseif k == "Title" then mpd_state["{"..k.."}"] = helpers.escape(v)
elseif k == "Album" then mpd_state["{"..k.."}"] = helpers.escape(v)
elseif k == "Genre" then mpd_state["{"..k.."}"] = helpers.escape(v)
--elseif k == "Name" then mpd_state["{"..k.."}"] = helpers.escape(v)
--elseif k == "file" then mpd_state["{"..k.."}"] = helpers.escape(v)
end
end
end
f:close()
return mpd_state
end
return setmetatable(mpd, { __call = function(_, ...) return worker(...) end })
I'm using Clementine to play the music if that makes a difference.
Last edited by DisposableHero (2013-11-25 01:12:01)

Hi,
If the songs were purchased from itunes, I suggest that you delete the tracks from your itunes library and move to trash (providing you live in a country that permits redownloading). See http://support.apple.com/kb/PH12283.
Jim

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HT2905 When I added music to iTunes it seperated some of the songs into the catagories selected and others are lumped into a list at the end where artist and song are in the same space and not sperated like the other songs. It appears I into catagories an

I've got to be the dumbest Apple product owner there is.
* Doesn't it seem strange (maybe I'm not finding this option as it's hidden some place?) that there aren't boxes allowing you to select what action you clearly want to take?
Senerio (sp?) New user (last two years) or for a 7 year old who opens up itunes to any catagory listed, for this exsample their iPhone's hooked up and connected currently what I view it appears iTunes will sync the two but where is it stated clearly what will be over written and what will be replacing it? Because once syncing is done it's done there's no "I didn't want it to do that" button to press to go back!
Solution for persons such as myself; picture a white plain screen opening up in the catagory you choose (I'll use music) uncluttered no links taking you inadvetaintly to a screen pitching me something from Apple just all my music catagorized by iTunes the way in which I selected it to be by checking as many of the choices as I want that are list in the "sort" menu. Now before I hit sync at the top there are 3 empty boxes. Positioned clearly and designed by the marketing department who has every page in the store laid out clear clean and in your face making it impossible to START HERE so to speak, they'd unmistakably be simply labeled with 3 basic choices for you to choose from (a fourth "advanced" could be optional) which would be; Box#1 Do Noithing (Leave as is) Box#2 Sync from Device to iTunes Box#3 Sync from iTunes to Device . What you checked is what action iTunes would take. When you pressed "sync" a box would pop up Asking are you sure you want to it would have the selected boxes action here further assuring you wre doing as you wanted .
With these on all the things/catagories that iTunes writes over and erases replacing it with what in my experiance usually is incomplete folders or databases of apps, music, movies, podcasts, books etc.? the misinterpretation of the action you want or choose would almost be eliminated from incorrect interpretation of what you actually want to do.
Please if there's something I can set for all my choices please tell me where and how.
Addionally without doing it one song at a time does iTunes seperate song artist from title automatically some how or do I have to go song by song cut artist and paste in the correct colum?
Any help is appriciated!!!!!!!!!

I've got to be the dumbest Apple product owner there is.
* Doesn't it seem strange (maybe I'm not finding this option as it's hidden some place?) that there aren't boxes allowing you to select what action you clearly want to take?
Senerio (sp?) New user (last two years) or for a 7 year old who opens up itunes to any catagory listed, for this exsample their iPhone's hooked up and connected currently what I view it appears iTunes will sync the two but where is it stated clearly what will be over written and what will be replacing it? Because once syncing is done it's done there's no "I didn't want it to do that" button to press to go back!
Solution for persons such as myself; picture a white plain screen opening up in the catagory you choose (I'll use music) uncluttered no links taking you inadvetaintly to a screen pitching me something from Apple just all my music catagorized by iTunes the way in which I selected it to be by checking as many of the choices as I want that are list in the "sort" menu. Now before I hit sync at the top there are 3 empty boxes. Positioned clearly and designed by the marketing department who has every page in the store laid out clear clean and in your face making it impossible to START HERE so to speak, they'd unmistakably be simply labeled with 3 basic choices for you to choose from (a fourth "advanced" could be optional) which would be; Box#1 Do Noithing (Leave as is) Box#2 Sync from Device to iTunes Box#3 Sync from iTunes to Device . What you checked is what action iTunes would take. When you pressed "sync" a box would pop up Asking are you sure you want to it would have the selected boxes action here further assuring you wre doing as you wanted .
With these on all the things/catagories that iTunes writes over and erases replacing it with what in my experiance usually is incomplete folders or databases of apps, music, movies, podcasts, books etc.? the misinterpretation of the action you want or choose would almost be eliminated from incorrect interpretation of what you actually want to do.
Please if there's something I can set for all my choices please tell me where and how.
Addionally without doing it one song at a time does iTunes seperate song artist from title automatically some how or do I have to go song by song cut artist and paste in the correct colum?
Any help is appriciated!!!!!!!!!

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... it says contact apple for support, what should I do??...t
Contact iTunes Customer Service and request assistance
Use this Link > Apple Support iTunes Store Contact

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After a long overdue update to my ipod touch I've noticed that when I select an artist my songs are now grouped by album as opposed to alphabetically. Wondering if its possible to change this as I cant find any options or information on this myself.
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http://www.apple.com/feedback/

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