Level 1

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iPod Classic - Hiding Compilation Artists

OK, so I just upgraded my trusty old 60GB black iPod with an 80GB Classic.. on my older iPod I could go to 'Settings' > 'Compilations' and select on/off - with it on, when I went through my listing of artists it didn't show any of the obscure one off artists I had (as long as they were correctly identified in iTunes) - for some reason thats no longer an option on the Classic..

Or, if it is its not in the same spot and I haven't found it... Any one have any success? I have about 8GB of compilations set up and it makes my Artist list annoyingly long if every single one is listed there..

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.4.10)

Posted on Sep 6, 2007 8:39 PM

35 replies

JDahl78

Level 1

0 points

Sep 23, 2007 8:33 AM in response to MustardParty

One other shortcoming of changing the "Sort Artist" field - it cleans up your Cover Flow, but - unless there's something I'm missing - it messes up the listing of artists in your "Artists" list. When I tried this, my cover flow looked appropriate (the album only appears once in Cover Flow, in the section where the "V" artists would be, although it still shows the track 1 artist as the artist) but in my "Artists" list, it went through the alphabet appropriately until the "V" section, and in the "V" section, every artist who I had associated "Various Artists" with as the "Artist Sort" appeared again before the alphabet moved on to the "W" artists. Sigh...

Dj Slump

Level 1

4 points

Sep 24, 2007 1:56 AM in response to JDahl78

To avoid this problem, as my iPod sorts the numbers after the letters, I putted in "Sort artist" the value "9999 Copilations". Now the compilation artists are shown at the end of the list (after the last artist "99 Posse"). It's not such an elegant solution, but it works somehow...

xekuter

Level 1

8 points

Oct 2, 2007 2:23 PM in response to Howard811

Being unable to hide compilation artists from your main artist list is so annoying. I waited 3 generations for apple to introduce this simple feature. And now for no apparent reason they've dropped it??!! So frustrating. They should create an offical bug schedule so we can at least know they've acknowledged the issue and are working to set it right??!!

Howard811 Author

Level 1

16 points

Oct 6, 2007 7:52 AM in response to logaen

COMPILATIONS IS FIXED with firmware 1.0.2!!!!
You have to go to the Music Settings menu, then turn Compilations ON.. When you do that then the Artist list no longer displays the individual compilation artists!!

THANK YOU APPLE!!!!!

logaen

Level 1

4 points

Sep 22, 2007 7:53 PM in response to logaen

nothing to do, really.
We can try to send our feedback ...

http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipod.html

Sep 8, 2007 9:15 PM in response to Howard811

o please please please apple... please change this.... my artist list is maddeningly long now... esp. with all those dj mixes i have..

Sep 9, 2007 12:21 PM in response to Howard811

I've left them feedback. Hopefully it gets fixed soon, scrolling through my artists is painful right now.

Chris CA

Level 10

82,513 points

Sep 11, 2007 11:50 AM in response to Howard811

On the iPod Classic, Compilations should be in Settings -> Music menu.

Sep 13, 2007 2:49 PM in response to Howard811

yeah, please everybody report this. I can't live without my compilations grouped! It's driving me crazy!!

Howard811 Author

Level 1

16 points

Sep 14, 2007 6:29 PM in response to Dj Slump

Software updated 1.0.1 did NOT fix this problem..

C'mon Apple - this is the most annoying thing...

logaen

Level 1

4 points

Sep 20, 2007 9:35 AM in response to MustardParty

nothign to do with mine! 😟 i've try to put MANUALLY "sort artist" in all my mp3s compilation. My cover flow dosen't work... i'm always FULL of the same CD cover. I really don't like ipod.

Sep 28, 2007 9:22 AM in response to Howard811

My first ipod, i find this very annoying! I have also made my feelings known on feedback, hopefully this will be sorted out promto as I will not be renaming all of my tags

logaen

Level 1

4 points

Sep 28, 2007 9:38 AM in response to Doggtanyon

same situation of mine! 😟 I'm not happy.

logaen

Level 1

4 points

Oct 2, 2007 3:06 PM in response to xekuter

http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=277803

the best ipod ever! LOL

logaen

Level 1

4 points

Oct 6, 2007 9:38 AM in response to Howard811

nothing to do with mine. Where's this new setting?

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