DavidLago

Q: iPod/Music App in iOS5 not sorting artist list alphabetically

Hello.

 

 

I've got what it seems to be an annoying bug from the new Music App/iPod in iOS5. It simply sorts my artists out of alphabetical order on the artist dashboard. I tried to use the option "group by album artist" on and off and it seems to have no effect on that issue.

 

I also found a way to fix it temporally, erasing all music data, and resyncing all the playlists/selected albums. But whenever I sync again to add a new album or playlist, it messes up with the alphabetical order again. Anyone with the same problem? Is there a bug fix, workaround?

 

I got some Screenshots of the problem taking place, attached below.

 

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iPhone 4, iOS 5

Posted on Nov 3, 2011 2:41 AM

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  • by llamagoosc,

    llamagoosc llamagoosc Dec 19, 2012 2:08 PM in response to llamagoosc
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    Dec 19, 2012 2:08 PM in response to llamagoosc

    Can anyone else confirm/deny that upgrading to the latest iTunes fixes the problem?  Maybe try erase and re-sync to device after that.

     

    It worked for me, and I had been experiencing this problem for over a year.

  • by Rockstar2757,

    Rockstar2757 Rockstar2757 Dec 19, 2012 3:15 PM in response to llamagoosc
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    Dec 19, 2012 3:15 PM in response to llamagoosc

    It's fixed! All my artists were in order because I had done a restore and haden't added any music in the past couple of months. I recently upgraded to iTunes 11, added music, synced and all is good with the world. Wow. Finally. Thank you Apple. Now I don't hate my iPhone as much anymore. It just works. Yay.

  • by Chris4Apple,

    Chris4Apple Chris4Apple Dec 21, 2012 10:15 AM in response to llamagoosc
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    Dec 21, 2012 10:15 AM in response to llamagoosc

    llamagoosc: I can confirm.  Moving to iTunes 11 fixed this problem for me, can't tell you how relieved I am...  Have had the issue for over a year when I was on a 3GS.  Currently on a 4S with iOS 5.1.1, but it's the move to iTunes 11 that did it.  Glad they finally fixed it...

  • by ondrei,

    ondrei ondrei Dec 27, 2012 12:41 AM in response to DavidLago
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    Dec 27, 2012 12:41 AM in response to DavidLago

    The best fix is to go into iTunes, highlight every single track, right click 'get info', tick the 'composer' box and save it as an empty space. This removes all the composer data for all of your individual tracks. Sync with your iPhone and it'll sort all your music in order, I promise.

  • by Nayan Vemula,

    Nayan Vemula Nayan Vemula Jan 4, 2013 10:05 AM in response to DavidLago
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    Jan 4, 2013 10:05 AM in response to DavidLago

    I had a similar problem. In my case Led Zepellin I , II and III showed up in C . Right click on that particular album a nd click 'Get Info ' and go to Sorting tab and makesure every field is empty . Sync once again and everything will be sorted .

  • by llamagoosc,

    llamagoosc llamagoosc Jan 4, 2013 10:10 AM in response to Nayan Vemula
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    Jan 4, 2013 10:10 AM in response to Nayan Vemula

    @Nayan: I think that's an intentional feature of the sorting tag.   What we were experiencing here had little to do with sort information.   You would have everything fine, then add a song to your itunes library and sync with the phone.  Suddenly all kinds of fields were alphabetized out of whack, not just the song you added.

  • by Chris4Apple,

    Chris4Apple Chris4Apple Jan 4, 2013 10:22 AM in response to Nayan Vemula
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    Jan 4, 2013 10:22 AM in response to Nayan Vemula

    @Nayan @ondrei: I believe you are missing something and want to write this reply so that others aren't confused.  This thread exists because there was an issue that affected many of us even if all settings were perfect and set up so that nothing would throw the artists out of order.  Even with the "composer", "artist album", and other fields erased, our artists were still out of order.  This was caused by something on Apple's side that was outside of our control.  As you can see, users pretty much tried everything they could think of for ~1.5 years, however the issue was only fixed by installing and syncing with iTunes 11.

  • by iPhoneCollector,

    iPhoneCollector iPhoneCollector Jan 16, 2013 8:08 PM in response to DavidLago
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    Jan 16, 2013 8:08 PM in response to DavidLago

    I am having the same problem with a new 4s on 6.0.1 on iTunes 11.1. I have tried everything this and many other threads have suggested to no avail. I must however mention that my previous 3 iPhone 4 models all running 5.1.1 had no problem in this area, which leads me to believe in a software malfunction in iOS 6. Would love a fix to this, Apple you need to wake the **** up before you lose loyal customers. Peace.

  • by MxxC,

    MxxC MxxC Jan 16, 2013 8:17 PM in response to iPhoneCollector
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    Jan 16, 2013 8:17 PM in response to iPhoneCollector

    iPhoneCollector wrote:

     

    I am having the same problem with a new 4s on 6.0.1 on iTunes 11.1. I have tried everything this and many other threads have suggested to no avail. I must however mention that my previous 3 iPhone 4 models all running 5.1.1 had no problem in this area, which leads me to believe in a software malfunction in iOS 6. Would love a fix to this, Apple you need to wake the **** up before you lose loyal customers. Peace.

    This thread was created in 2011; ios6 did not exist back then so obviously it is not ios6 related.

     

    Have you followed instructions that I said in my earlier post?

  • by Stuart in Thailand,

    Stuart in Thailand Stuart in Thailand Jan 16, 2013 8:24 PM in response to DavidLago
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    Jan 16, 2013 8:24 PM in response to DavidLago

    Yay!!

    Almost 50% of my songs, artists and albums were located under 123 instead of their letter, I followed the advice of swithching language, in my case between English and Thai, but thats mainly because I figured that maybe some of the Thai songs were at fault, back to English and guess what?

    It worked!!

    So thanks to all who helped with this issue.

     

    Now if only I could get my iPhone 4 to find wifi sources as well as my collegues Galaxy!!

    Cheers

    Stu

  • by Hulangstyle,

    Hulangstyle Hulangstyle Jan 23, 2013 11:45 AM in response to DavidLago
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    Jan 23, 2013 11:45 AM in response to DavidLago

    Alright guys, i have just solved this issue by myself yesterday. I'm going to write it down step by step;

    1- Download Mp3tag. (I don't know if it's available in Mac. If not, try another ID3 tag editor software.)

    2- Drag all of the songs into the mp3tag. Select all, right click and select "extended tags"

    3- Remove the fields "albumartistsort","artistsort","albumsort","composersort","titlesort".

    4- Save. (it should be a prompt like "tags saved")

    5- Add the songs to itunes library and sync with your iDevice.

     

    That should solve your problem.Let me know if it worked or not.

  • by llamagoosc,

    llamagoosc llamagoosc Jan 23, 2013 11:55 AM in response to Hulangstyle
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    Jan 23, 2013 11:55 AM in response to Hulangstyle

    This is not an issue with sorting tags (that is an intentional feature of iTunes).   When I had this error, things were ending up in a different order at different times, even with all sorting tags cleared.

     

    It appears that it was some issue with the itunes library database file and how it was transfered to iOS 5 (maybe old libraries? mine was started in itunes 4) that is only corrected by upgrading to version 11.

  • by Hulangstyle,

    Hulangstyle Hulangstyle Jan 23, 2013 12:03 PM in response to llamagoosc
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    Jan 23, 2013 12:03 PM in response to llamagoosc

    Mine is solved by doing those things, the cause of the problem can be differ, but it is worth to try my solution in order to notice what is the backpart of problem.

  • by MxxC,

    MxxC MxxC Jan 23, 2013 12:11 PM in response to Hulangstyle
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    Jan 23, 2013 12:11 PM in response to Hulangstyle

    It worked for you this one time when you synced, but there's no guarantee it won't break again.

    Furthermore, editing tags outside of itunes can be problematic for itunes to see the changes w/o readding the whole library again. You might as well simply edit some irrelevant tags and then delete them again. However, it's still faster to just nuke index from your ios device and resync rather than let itunes or mp3tag or whatever to plow through all of your tracks.

  • by Perez_Geraldine,

    Perez_Geraldine Perez_Geraldine Mar 28, 2013 5:21 PM in response to DavidLago
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    Mar 28, 2013 5:21 PM in response to DavidLago

    WAIT WAIT!!! I had the same problem dont restore just turn it off and turn it back on and it should fix it!!

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