Your Music -- Album View under Artists [iOS]

When navigating the "artists" menu under "Your Music," please group the albums together when there is more than one so we can quickly find and play a specific album, rather than just placing all the songs by that aritsts in a list.

The new update to Spotify is a massive step forward for me. No longer will I scroll down and down and down and down to find a new album in my playlists. Brilliant!
But...Something is still missing.
The problem with the current versio of "Your Music" is that you can loose the ability to enjoy the music as the artisit indeeded, via their album. They spend days deciding what order to have the album, and with the current version of Spotify it makes it harder for you to pick out an album from the new "Your Music". All you can do is read the name under each track and work it out from there.
This is a simple fix for me. Just make the "Your Music" artisit page the same as the "Artist" page. Group the songs by album and allow is to play an album on its own.

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How do I get my iPad 3rd Gen to sort Music album titles under an artist's name alphabetically instead of chronologically?

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The large text size makes your post almost impossible to read.
Excessive use of bold or capitals (also) makes posts difficult to read.
You can drag most of the column headings left or right, or right-click on the header to turn columns on or off.
Once you've used File > Display Duplicates or Shift > File > Display Exact Duplicates you can use File > Display All or the Display All button at the bottom of the list to restore the display.
For general advice on organising your library see this article on Grouping tracks into albums.
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IPod Touch 5th Gen: Music not listed under artists nor albums, only in Songs

I just purchased a new iPod Touch 5 Generation, I have lots of albums on my PC, tried to copy them to iTunes, works perfectly and existing in iTunes, when checked the iPod Touch 5th Generation, the songs appear under Songs But nothing under Artists nor Albums!
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I checked the compilation, It's already un-tick.
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Nothing shows in the artists or albums columns at all, or specific songs don't show up in the corresponding artist or album listings?
Standard things to try would be a reset, then a restore (although with a new machine that ought not to be necessary).
I'm leaning towards the possibility of multiple tags. iTunes is much happier when files have a single ID3v2.3 tag. Where multiple tags exist there is the possibility that iTunes and iOS might process different tags. Select the tracks of a test album, uncheck the tracks and sync to remove from the device. Select again, right click and use Convert ID3 Tags... > None and click OK. Repeat the process two or three times just to be sure. Then use Convert ID3 Tags... > v2.3. You will need to refetch/reembed any artwork. Check the tracks again and sync. Any better now?
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Purchased album missing under Artists

I had pre-ordered the new Garbage album and last night I got an e-mail notifying me it was ready to download. So I opened iTunes on my iPhone 4 and went to Downloads and the album started downloading. I watched all the songs download then went to Music to listen to it. I looked under Artist and Garbage and that album was missing. So I looked under Albums and it's showing up.
I can't seem to get it to show up under the artist, though. I have synced, rebooted the phone, etc.
The tracks are not part of a compilation so that's not it.
The album shows up under the artist section in iTunes on my MacBook Pro.
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How can you refresh the Music Album view in the Touchsmart 3.0 software?

I have a load of albums stored on a network drive and was told to do the following to include a network share in the Touchsmart Music Library:-
mklink /d rmusic "\\server\music" Where \\server\music is the network share
All worked fine and my albums were shown in the Touchsmart Music Library
The problem I'm finding is, if a track in the album has some info missing, for example the Album Artist, the Touchsmart Music Library thinks its a seperate album and shows it as a seperate album in the album view.
I've gone in to the offending track on the album on my network share and have amended the info on it, using an mp3 tag editor. The problem I have is that I'm unable to refresh the Touchsmart Music Library to show the updates, as they are still showing as seperate albums, even though they are th same. Help!! (I hope this makes sence)

you might want to try twonky media server running on your \\server, i think you have various album options you can play with so that hopefully your touchsmart library will conform to it.
http://www.twonkyvision.de/learn.html
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Why my tracks are not shown in Album view and Artist view, only Album Artworks are shown???

Dear,
I have not have this problem in the previous version of iTune. As soon as i upgraded it to iTunes 11, it happens.
The problem in here is all my songs, tracks are still here, i can see all of them in "songs view". However, when i change the view to Album View, and click into the Album artwork, there is no track there. When i double click into the Album Artwork, the first song of the album will be played normally.
Same story to the Artist View. Only the Album Artworks are shown and the rest is completely blank.
I have absolutely no idea what is going on here and obviously i am not satisfy with this new version.
Is there any way for me to fix this problem? Please help!
Otherwise i will need to use other software for music playing.
Regard,

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[Your Music] add link in artist page to the artist page in my library

in an artist page, near "play" and "follow" buttons, a new button "in my library" will be added.when the user clicks the button, he navigates to the artist page in his library (now accessible through "Artists" under "Your Music") this will make displaying the user's saved songs for this artist somewhat user-friendly with a tiny implementation effort.

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Songs w/o Album NOT Under Artist! Why?!

Here's a funny quirk about the 5th Gen iPod. Songs by a certain artist that have no album listed aren't appearing under that artist when I browse by artist. Is there anyway to change this? Other than making the album "unknown" or something? Is there a setting I can change? I've been looking around but can't find a way to fix this without filling all the album titles as "unknown." Anyone encountered this problem? Solution? Thanks!

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Adding an album is the only thing you can do.
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Is there a way to sort albums under artists in the Music app?

On my iPhone, the albums under each individual artist are sorted from newest to oldest. On the previous version of the iOS they were sorted oldest to newest. Is there a way to change it back to show oldest to newest? I like to listen to my albums in order.
When you go into your music app, select the artist, the Albums should be sorted from oldest release date to newest. Right now, when I go into Pink Floyd it shows:
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If you find the music sorting order as annoying as I think most people do, let apple know at:
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How to show artists on a track, album view - itunes 11

just got itunes 11 and i have my library in album view, when i click on an album a list of songs drops down and underneath each track the artists on the track are displayed; but not for every album. i cant seem to find why but sometimes the artists just arn't shown, how do i make it show?

alice286 wrote:
Thank you so much! Got it sorted!
Another quick qu - what do I do if I have a compilation with each song having a different artist? Can I show the individual artist whilst keeping them all in the same album?
Only in the Album view. Artist view will display them separately unless you have Group by Album Artist turned On. I tend to set the Album Artist (not the individual track artist) as "Various" or XYZ Soundtrack or something similar making grouping them a bit easier.

PDF books added in iTunes 11.1.3 shows up in Music Albums tab [Probably a bug]

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You may find the troubleshooting steps in the article below helpful.
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Better Import of Local Files to Integrate with Your Music

I switched to Spotify because it let me import my local files. With "Your Music" this has the potential to get even better.
Spotify would be amazing if it scanned your local files and added those songs, albums, and artists to the Songs, Albums, and Artists sections in My Music automatically.
Even better, my local files are not exactly local, they're stored on an external drive, and I've love to have Spotify be able to switch to a Spotify version if the local version is not available (i.e. when I'm not connected to the drive) or it's just taking a long time to load.

If we could do this to better integrate local files with the Your Music album and artist views, I could migrate away from using iTunes on my desktop. It would be nice as well for this to integrate into the search function. I actually use the search function more than the other parts of the Your Music view (even though I love those views and gladly welcome them) because it's faster. If local files could integrate in there (for things that aren't on Spotify), I would never use iTunes.
For example. I want to listen to [Band A] that isn't on Spotify. I go to the search bar, type in their name, it appears on the results just like something on Spotify. I click on their name and am taken to an artist page to see all of their albums that are stored on my computer. This is different from the filter search for local files because that search does not give an option to better narrow down results to see only one album or all albums by one artist.

Backing up your music

After experiencing a crash with the update to ITunes today, I realized I better back up my music files seperate from my hardrive.. Just wondering what method most of you use to backup a large music library?
Thanks for your help.
Windows XP

I use the very basic 'copy entire music folder + iTunes files to external hard drive' method.
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Well....You can Use iTunes for Backing up your Music. It works fine for music files BUT: I prefer more control and completeness over my backup process, and it is also important to note that a large limitation of using iTunes to manage the backup is that the iTunes method does not maintain the two meta-data files (iTunes Library.itl & iTunes Music Library.xml) where your Playlists, Ratings, Play Counts, etc. are stored. See: What are the iTunes Library files?
If you are heavily invested in your Library data (Playlists, Play Counts, Ratings, Last Played, Date Added, etc.), then:
it is critical that you also make multiple backups of your ‘iTunes Library.itl’ file.
If your music is located under one common Folder (e.g.-‘iTunes’), then it is easiest to physically copy that folder and all its sub-folders in one simple process. It can be done quickly, and incrementally – several times a day, when necessary. In the case of any data loss, just re-copy your entire (or partial) music library back to wherever it was, placing it in the main Folder that the previous iTunes expected. Along with the .ITL meta-data file, this completes a full ‘restore’ of your music to the time of your last backup.
Use of a backup software program will greatly help. It will allow you to easily perform incremental backups of only the files that have changed. WinXP has such a facility built-in. I use a free program called FileSync ( http://www.fileware.com ). There are many out there. Some use Zipped files or proprietary formats, others use standard file formats. I like FileSync as it uses normal file formats that can be viewed/managed via any Windows program or utility.
Here's a list of possible ways to copy your music files from your main iTunes computer to another storage medium for backup purposes.
1) Use an External Hard Drive to store the complete iTunes meta-data files and underlying Music Folder structure and songs from your main computer. They are quite cheap now, for their storage volume. This is my preferred main medium.
If you have two computers:
2a) Connect them through a router
2b) Connect them using a Direct (w/Mac) or Crossover (PC/PC) Ethernet cable (See: http://www.ifelix.co.uk/tech/3001.html)
2c) Connect them via a USB-to-USB Network Bridge. See: here as an example.
Copy the files and folders from one computer to the other. Use the second PC as your backup repository.
3) Burn several DVDs (at 4.7+ GBs each) with the music data files and store them safely. Re-writable ones are good for backup purposes (if your DVD drive can manage these).
4) Burn 6x more on CDs (at 700MB each) than in #3 above and store them safely in more space Re-writable ones are good for backup purposes (if your CD drive can manage these).
5) Use a larger USB Flash drive (1GB - 4GB) to store the files only if you have a small amount ripped music or have multiple and/or jumbo USB drives at your disposal that will fit your music library.
6) Use the second internal hard drive (if available) of your PC -- not optimum, as you really want to physically separate the storage of backups from the originals, but good as a tertiary storage device.
By keeping only one copy of your music (other than on the iPod), you are not truly 'backed-up' and are running a high risk of losing your music. Music files on just the iPod and the computer is not considered having any backup. If you cannot store your complete music files on the computer, then create and maintain two external sets.
You need at least three sets of your music:
-- One full set on the PC within iTunes (on internal HD or ExHD)
-- One full set on an separate external backup medium (CD/DVD/ExHD/other)
-- One (full or partial) set on the iPod
It is a good policy to backup all your important data. It is a very smart policy to back it up on more than one medium.
External hard drives now run less than $100 for 200-250GBs of storage. Very cheap backup insurance, indeed. See: http://dealnews.com/categories/Computer/Storage/Hard-Drives/USB-Hard-Drives/254. html

CHECK IT OUT - how to make album view name the song in the viewer

Album view shows the album for the highlighted song. If you put the title of the song in "album artist", the title appears in album view under the album name and cover photo. No...no...don't thank me.....
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oops...yes, you are right. But the thing is, if album view isn't going to just show ONE album cover in the window for all the songs on the album, then each pic of the cover might as well have the actual title of the song being referenced on it.
The way to keep one photo as the designated album cover, for all songs, is to make that foto the FIRST in the series for each individual song's collection of artwork. When a song is playing, click "get info" from "file". Choose "album artwork" and drag-and-drop each piece of artwork into the window, then arrange so that the designated album cover is first in the group.
What I wanted from Album View was ONE foto of each album, and then by clicking on the foto, the album contents would appear in the playlist window. Too much to ask, I guess

Your Music -- Album View under Artists [iOS]

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