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Artists out of alphabetical order and missing albums after update

My iPod seems to be having multiple issues since the upgrade to the new OS. Note that none of these problems existed before the update.


1) The first I noticed is there will be an album missing from the artist (on the artist view). It's in my iTunes, all the tags are correct, but it's not showing up under the artist. However, the album is listed under album view, with the correct artist. Yet there appears to be no way to access it except under album view.


2) Another problem is that some artists are duplicated on the artist view.


Example:


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When clicked, either of the two artist entries (like All Time Low above) show the same albums and songs. They're basically identical duplicate shortcuts.


3) The most befuddling is the alphabetical order. It's completely wrong, out of order, and artists that start with different letters are appearing under the wrong letter heading.


I think this screencap sums up the problem better than I can explain it:


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Any ideas?

Posted on Oct 18, 2011 5:54 PM

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Oct 21, 2011 7:21 AM in response to Guitar McKee

After hours of trying to figure out the problem i finally did!! Its going to be a pain in the butt, but its the only way. :/


1. Look for the song file.

2. Right click and choose prefences

3. Go to details and edit the information

- "Title" aka songs name

- "Album artist"

- "Album"

-The rest of the stuff can be filled in if you want

4. Click OK

5. Drag it into itunes


Hope this helped.

Oct 21, 2011 7:52 AM in response to nogdejxibtdly

I got it to work using a different method...


Mine was even more screwed up... I had every artist 4-5 times and none were in the right order. Song view was even worse.


Uninstall every trace of iTunes and Bonjour (if your on windows). Then do a registry clean, making sure missing links is checked... then reinstall iTunes, sync your iPod once, and then it will reorder themon the iPod in a sensible order 🙂


This is the registry cleaner I use.

http://download.cnet.com/Auslogics-Registry-Cleaner/3000-2094_4-10909814.html?ta g=mncol;10


I hope this helps someone 🙂

Nov 27, 2011 10:22 AM in response to nogdejxibtdly

I am having this same issue on both my wifes iphone 4 and my iphone 4S after updating to version 5.0.1. I am also unable to do a sync OTA as it just sits on syncing one item and never progresses for hours until i manually cancel it. I will try to do a restore as mentioned above but i would really like to hear from Apple about these bugs and atleast know they are working on them.

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