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I have most of my music in MP3 format and loaded into iTunes on my windows computer. When I sync it to my phone most come out just fine, but a handfull will only show the artist's name and not the song titles. Can anyone help me correct this? Thanks!
iPhone 11
In iTunes use the Songs view right click on the column headings and enable the Work and Grouping fields, and probably Movement Name & Movement Number for completeness.
These fields are meant to be used to divide up classical albums into their component parts, e.g.
But for popular music you would normally want Work, Movement Name, and Movement Number to be blank and the option to Use Work & Movement to be turned off. You can select tracks in iTunes and press Ctrl+i to get Song Info, then make changes accordingly. When you sync back to the phone it should sort things out. See also Grouping tracks into albums for further advice on organizing content in iTunes.
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In iTunes use the Songs view right click on the column headings and enable the Work and Grouping fields, and probably Movement Name & Movement Number for completeness.
These fields are meant to be used to divide up classical albums into their component parts, e.g.
But for popular music you would normally want Work, Movement Name, and Movement Number to be blank and the option to Use Work & Movement to be turned off. You can select tracks in iTunes and press Ctrl+i to get Song Info, then make changes accordingly. When you sync back to the phone it should sort things out. See also Grouping tracks into albums for further advice on organizing content in iTunes.
tt2
Why do you recommend that album artist be filled? I only found that section to be a problem with one grouping and the artist category is complete, so it didn’t present an issue.
on a side note; as I have about 8,000 songs that I needed to verify I decided to experiment and found that as long as you are just editing out the work and movement categories, you can do large groups of mixed artists instead of individuals.
thanks again!
Album Artist is meant for the artist or group that released the album. Artist is meant for details about the particular track, which may differ if there are guest or featured artists. Album Artist is only needed when different tracks from the same album have different Artist values, but I normally fill in both for completeness. I might be a bit OCD when it comes to metadata.
tt2
Additional info, yes, both my computer and phone have the latest IOS and iTunes updates!
I suspect you have unwanted data in the Work field. This may have been inherited from values you'd previously put in Grouping.
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could you tell me how to fix that?
Thank you! That did the trick for most of the issues, I did find that the “album artist” field must also be blank as that came up a couple times too. Nice to see what I’m looking for again!
You're welcome. 🙂
I would generally recommend Album Artist is completed for every track, but the key point is that it should be consistent for every track on the same album.
tt2
Song info not displayed in iTunes app on phone
