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iPhone 4S artist sort order problem

Running iTunes 10.5 and iOS5 on iPhone 4S and having this problem where when i go to Music and then the Artists tab, the artists are not listed under the proper letter. So like when I click on the "V" on the side where all the letters are, it goes to V, but all the bands listed under that start with S. then when I get down to "Z" all the bands start with T, and that it. So I cant get to any of the artists that start with letters past T. The songs are on the iPhone, when I search for them they show up and I can play them and they are still on their proper playlists. But still pretty annoying for when i just want to hear a specific artist. Any ideas?

Posted on Oct 30, 2011 1:40 PM

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Mar 21, 2012 7:45 AM in response to poil66

The reason is because the iPhone sorts them by ALBUM ARTIST not by ARTIST. So, if your artist "Eminem" is under "50 cent" then go into iTunes, find the song that is miscategorized, go to get info, then change the album artist name to the correct artist (in this case eminem). Now, if only I could find out if the iPhone could sort by ARTIST rather than ALBUM ARTIST I'd be happy.

iPhone 4S artist sort order problem

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