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I have an iphone 4, running ios5.
Some of my songs are not showing up when I search for them by their artist. They are there under the "album artist" listed. (For reasons I don't quite understand my husband has some songs with different "artist" and "album artist" listings under "get info".)
Basically, why is my phone reading the "album artist" info and not the "artist" info?
iPhone 4, iOS 5
I'm having the same problem Robyn. It's very frustrating--esp. after so many years of all my music sorting by Artist (which is what makes perfect sense to me). It took 3 techs at my Apple Store to even figure out that, even though it said it was sorting by Artist, in fact it was sorting by Album Artist.
Let's hope they change it back--or at least give us the option to chose for ourselves which we prefer!
iOS 5 has introduced a new setting, turned on by default, under Settings > Music > Group By Album Artist. Turning this off will return the old view that you are used to where all individual values of Artist are listed instead of just the Album Artists. Personally I've been wanting the new layout since I bought an iPod Classic four years ago and was frustrated by the way it split up albums with guest artists and handled compilations. It's been a long wait!
For tips on organising your media see http://samsoft.org.uk/iTunes/grouping.asp
tt2
Thanks so much tt2--very helpful! And I'll let the person at the Apple Store know too--so he can advise others who might find the same problem...
I saw the samsoft link in another post--perhaps one of yours... Looks very helpful and need to take some time to review it more carefully.
Thanks again!
Michelle
I saw that setting earlier. My phone setting does have "group by album artist" turned off. One of the albums was marked as a "compilation" (on the Get Info tab). I had read that if that box is checked it will mess up the artist listing. That worked for one of the albums (which never was a compilation, but whatever). The other particular artist that wasn't showing up I fixed manually by fixing the album artist that was listed to match the artist. So, I have sort of fixed things, but I bet my phone is still reading "album artist". I'll do a test.
But thank you for replying everyone! Sorry...I'm new to this!
iphone sorting by album artist, not artist
