iPod/Music App in iOS5 not sorting artist list alphabetically

Same issue.

Bump. Does anyone in Apple read these forums or care about this issue?

I need to go and write some bad Iphone 4S reviews: if I was aware of how badly it functions as an iPod, I would have stuck with my old nano and bought an android phone instead.

Please call Apple support. It is the only way for them to take mass notice of this issue. As I have stated in the past, direct them to this thread.

Can we maybe get one of those Apple blogs to post an article about it? This seems like something that like Mac Rumors or one of those would love to get their hands on.

That's a great idea. I actually submitted this to Gizmodo a few hours ago, but perhaps MacRumors or TUAW would work even better.

Wow, it's now gotten so much worse. My artists used to be off by a few letters but now it's all completely out of whack. I can't even believe how badly unorganized it all is now. I just added some some songs and some podcasts and now it just doesn't eve make any sense. I'm seriously ****** off. I'm showing this to everyone with an Android and telling them to count their blessings. What a dissapointment.

I just spoke with Apple and they acknowledge that this is a known issue, but that's it. It was recommended that I submit feedback (which I did) at: www.apple.com/feedback.

Not the answer I was looking for unfortunately.

I'm so seriously fed up of this. All my music (over 6000 songs worth) is now organized and alphebetized, artists, genres, everything. Here's the stupid problem; in order for this to be possible, you have to un-sync your entire music library, then re-sync. Meaning, you connect your phone to iTunes, go to the music tab, un-select "sync music", sync your device so that everyhing gets wiped out, then select "sync music" and sync your device again. This will temporarily fix the problem until you add some more music (at least in my case) at which point everything will slowly get messed up again. Now with 6000 songs to copy back onto my iPhone, your looking at a couple of HOURS of syncing. Why does this have to be so stupid?!?!? Stupid stupid. $800 iPhone and I ...WE have to deal with this. Apple better figure this out for the next update or this piece of crap is going to become a very expensive door stop. Stupid.

They tried to do that to me as well, but I demanded to speak to a supervisor.

Has ANYONE else tried calling? 😟

Rockstar, I'm fed up too. What you described is exactly what I have to do everytime I add new music. I got tired of doing that, so I changed how I consume music on my iPhone. I now have to use Google Music to listen to music, which completely destroys the reason why I paid for a 32GB iPhone. I suggest others to sign up for Google Music and try using the website through Safari's browser. It actually isn't too bad, but obviously not how we want to consume our music.

I'm VERY close to jumping ship to another cell phone. My contract is up in June. If the problem is not fixed by then, I will do everything I can to ensure the word is out there that Apple cannot even properly code their Music app.

Oh, and after speaking to a total of three supervisors, only one has called me back.

All he wanted to do was troubleshooting, which I initially told him I wanted to do, but unfortunately, I didn't think that through. I have no time whatsoever to sit on the phone with Apple for hours on end to do troubleshooting.

Dear most valuable company in the world, want to pay me to help you troubleshoot? Sure. Otherwise, ensure your engineers actually know how to code the Music app. It can't be THAT hard.

This situation has just completely changed my opinion of Apple.

Can anyone confirm that 5.1.1 -- released today -- fixes this issue?

"This update contains improvements and bug fixes, including:

Improves reliability of using HDR option for photos taken using the Lock Screen shortcut

Addresses bugs that could prevent the new iPad from switching between 2G and 3G networks

Fixes bugs that affected AirPlay video playback in some circumstances

Improved reliability for syncing Safari bookmarks and Reading List

Fixes an issue where 'Unable to purchase' alert could be displayed after successful purchase

For information on the security content of this update, please visit this website:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222"

So no

Try this

http://cnettv.cnet.com/keep-ipod-songs-organized-right-albums/9742-1_53-50111044 .html

Another solution, kinda similar.

Oddly enough, I only encountered this issue *after* updating to 5.1.1. After a few hours of frustration, I figured out a workaround.

The kicker is that iTunes is not my primary music player on my PC - I use Winamp (I know, I know!) because it's exceptional at organizing stuff. I only drag actual mp3s onto my iTouch from Windows and that's all I use iTunes for, which is handy when isolating causes for issues like this.

So all I had to do was:

• Go into iTunes, find the affected files on the iTouch and delete them.
• Then I went to Winamp, found the corresponding files & reset the ID3 tags (just make sure you overwrite the affected fields - albums, artists, years, etc - even if they appear to be correct)
• Then, I dragged the files back into iTunes and the iTouch. Once the iTouch refreshes, everything sorts as expected.

Caveats/Alternatives:

• Restarting the iTouch doesn't cancel the workaround.
• But messing with Get Info in iTunes definitely does.
• If you guys don't have winamp or don't want it (or are on macs) just edit the file Properties to reset everything.

IDK if someone's already posted something similar earlier (I skipped a few pages of this thread) but as of this iOS version, my workaround seems to be effective. Hope that helps!

i also entered in the sort album field, the album name.

when you look under album it has songs listed seperately but if you click a song it will THEN show the album...