DavidLago
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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 MxxC,

    MxxC MxxC Mar 28, 2013 6:03 PM in response to Perez_Geraldine
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    Mar 28, 2013 6:03 PM in response to Perez_Geraldine

    Do you really think that in 2 years since this problem have been around, with 150 replies and 33000 reads that nobody else tried rebooting their phones?

  • by DKJ97,

    DKJ97 DKJ97 Jun 15, 2013 7:39 PM in response to DavidLago
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    Jun 15, 2013 7:39 PM in response to DavidLago

    What finally worked for me was an if-you-can't-beat-em, join-em approach:

     

    Mis-sorted artist by mis-sorted artist, I manually entered into the "sort artist" field the name I wanted it to sort by. Often this was just a matter of cutting-and-pasting from the "artist" field, but with a large library it still took a while. After several syncs and resets, the fix has held.

  • by radvfx,

    radvfx radvfx Apr 27, 2014 1:05 PM in response to DavidLago
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    Apr 27, 2014 1:05 PM in response to DavidLago

    Turning Iphone off and on again does NOT soft title listings in the "Music" app.  The ONLY way to resort offered by Apple is manually.

     

    People will argue time and again to do it through Itunes and a new sync, but REALLY, it's alphabetizing a list.  HTMLv1, 1994.

  • by ryanfox50,

    ryanfox50 ryanfox50 Oct 6, 2014 1:56 PM in response to DavidLago
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    Oct 6, 2014 1:56 PM in response to DavidLago

    I know this is an old post, I've been having the same problems.  The artist order on my device gets out of whack whenever I add new artists to iTunes and then sync my device.  The artists on device move down the list, and artists on the bottom of the list drop off and disappear.  It's like my device can't expand the number of artists available on its own. 

     

    I have a found an easy work around for this problem, and it might work for any other similar problems.  In iTunes I highlight all of the songs, right click and select Get Info.  Select the Options tab, then adjust the Volume Adjustment slider any amount.  Click OK to save this setting.  Then I sync my device.  Everything is back in order and under the right "A - Z" heading, nothing repeated, and nothing missing.

     

    It's not a fix to the problem.  I have about 6000 songs in iTunes,  My computer was syncing the changes just below 1000 songs / 10 minutes, so it took just over an hour total.  There are probably faster ways of accomplishing the same task, but it keeps you from having to uninstall iTunes, or resetting your device...just a few mouse clicks and a little bit of time.

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