iPod Touch's songs list not in alphabetical roder

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iPod Touch's songs list not in alphabetical roder

I was just listening to music one day and went to the songs list, wanted to search for a song in the "T", which was The Hardest Part by Coldplay, but the weird thing was that it appeared in the "H", plus the order of letters was from "T" to "H" to "T" or something, I would thank if someone could tell me if this has happened before to others specially.

iPod Touch 2G, iPhone OS 3.0, 8 Gigabytes

Posted on Aug 19, 2009 5:29 PM

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Rodolfsk8 Author

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Aug 19, 2009 5:30 PM in response to Rodolfsk8

In the title I meant order in stead of roder 🙂

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Aug 19, 2009 6:03 PM in response to Rodolfsk8

This is normal, the sorting in iTunes and on the iPod ignores articles like "The" and "A". You can override that setting by going into the tags of such songs one-by-one and editing the "Sort Name" field to include "The" or "A" in the sorting.

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Rodolfsk8 Author

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Aug 20, 2009 11:01 AM in response to Rodolfsk8

I still got doubts about the t to h to t...thing, noit in alphabetical order

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Rodolfsk8 Author

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Aug 20, 2009 11:02 AM in response to Rodolfsk8

I still got doubts about the t to h to thing, not in alphabetical order

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Aug 20, 2009 12:55 PM in response to Rodolfsk8

try the troubleshooting steps, should fix it. http://www.apple.com/support/ipodtouch/troubleshooting/

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Aug 20, 2009 5:48 PM in response to Rodolfsk8

Rodolfsk8 wrote:
I still got doubts about the t to h to t...thing, noit in alphabetical order

I'm not sure which firmware version you're using (or which iPod ... is it a 1st or 2nd generation Touch?). On my 2nd gen Touch with 3.0 I do not see the "letter header" briefly change to "T" when I scroll past a song that starts with "The". Where are you seeing this?

In any case, the change in letters could be explained as a difference in how the song is sorted vs. the actual 1st letter of the song. On the Classic you'll see this if you do a "quick-scroll" to bring up the scrolling letters -- when a song or Artist comes into view that starts with "The" the letter would briefly change to "T". I can't remember if Apple fixed this little bug, maybe something similar exists on the Touch.

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