Recently the artists view in the desktop music app shows the tracks out of order and even in the incorrect album. In the example provided, "California Here We Come" is the first track of the EP with the same name but is showing up in the 'Cotton Candy Armor Single'. The current playing indicator even moves up. I played the album via the play button on the album cover.
MacBook Pro 16″, macOS 14.2
Check that you're using any sort fields consistently, such that no two distinct values for album, artist, or album artist get the same sort album, sort artist or, sort album artist
If iTunes or Music show multiple instances of an artist or an album then what generally works is to select all related tracks and use Song Info to add say a trailing X to each of the fields that the tracks should have in common:
Apply the change which merges things together, then remove the excess characters. Occasionally it may help to close and reopen the app between the two renaming operations. Part of a compilation should also be set consistently.
* If tracks are to be synced to a non-iOS device there should be a common Artist and/or the album should be set as a Compilation.
Use the songs view and display the fields Album, Sort Album, Album Artist, Sort Album Artist, Artist and Sort Artist side by side so you see whether or not it is appropriate to edit Artist and if sort values could be causing any further problems. See Grouping tracks into albums for more help if required.
One further tip for really stubborn duplicates. At one point I had three lots of Various Artists in the artists view of my iTunes Match library that wouldn't respond to the usual trailing X treatment. What I found worked was to add the trailing X to start with, but then with each group that iTunes wanted to keep separate start typing a value and let it autocomplete from say Var... to Various Artists. Picking from the autocomplete lists seemed to work when pasting/editing the whole value didn't.
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Check that you're using any sort fields consistently, such that no two distinct values for album, artist, or album artist get the same sort album, sort artist or, sort album artist
If iTunes or Music show multiple instances of an artist or an album then what generally works is to select all related tracks and use Song Info to add say a trailing X to each of the fields that the tracks should have in common:
Apply the change which merges things together, then remove the excess characters. Occasionally it may help to close and reopen the app between the two renaming operations. Part of a compilation should also be set consistently.
* If tracks are to be synced to a non-iOS device there should be a common Artist and/or the album should be set as a Compilation.
Use the songs view and display the fields Album, Sort Album, Album Artist, Sort Album Artist, Artist and Sort Artist side by side so you see whether or not it is appropriate to edit Artist and if sort values could be causing any further problems. See Grouping tracks into albums for more help if required.
One further tip for really stubborn duplicates. At one point I had three lots of Various Artists in the artists view of my iTunes Match library that wouldn't respond to the usual trailing X treatment. What I found worked was to add the trailing X to start with, but then with each group that iTunes wanted to keep separate start typing a value and let it autocomplete from say Var... to Various Artists. Picking from the autocomplete lists seemed to work when pasting/editing the whole value didn't.
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Another thing to try is holding down option+cmd as you launch the app, which starts it in its safe mode and may also rebuild various internal lists. You should avoid using a common sort value to try to merge different primary values as this can have adverse consequences with the way content is displayed either in the library or on a device.
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Happening to me as well. In Artist view only, the first track in the second and subsequent albums appears as the last track of the previous album. All metadata is correct, and when viewed in Album view, all tracks appear in the correct album and order.
Music tracks in artists view are out of order on Apple Music desktop app
