How can I edit songs in my iphone library (on itunes?) Sometimes it works - often it doesn't

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How can I edit songs in my iphone library (on itunes?) Sometimes it works - often it doesn't

I have transfered numerous mp3 albums onto my iphone, but while all these appear in the iphone library on itunes, I can't see them on my iphone or I see them, but they are missing information (for instance: in the itunes iphone library I do see the artist and the title - on my phone, however, the artist is "no artist" and the title is "track 08". ) I went in and manually edited the fields under 'get info' but the results are unpredictable. Right now, I am focusing on one album and while 12 tracks out of 13 have accepted the edit and show the song title, # 8 shows track 8 AND despite numerous edits the artist name cannot be changed. I tried 'convert mp3 tag' several times with 'none', then setting them to version 2.3 and/or 2.4 - nothing seems to help. One album does not appear at all on the iphone, although, I can see it in the itunes library under iphone. I don't use itunes to organize my music, just for transfer to iphone. Any suggestions?

Thank you.

iPhone 4S, iOS 5.0.1

Posted on Sep 21, 2012 10:05 PM

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the fiend

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Sep 22, 2012 6:29 AM in response to Sang-gye

Sang-gye wrote:

...Any suggestions?

Yes, use iTunes to organise your music.

That may sound flippant, but I assume (suspect) that what you're doing is changing the file attributes (the song tags) in whichever programme you do use, but that of course is not making any changes to music you have already put on your iPhone. Do you have your iPhone set up with iTunes to Sync with iTunes or do you Manually Manage it? If you use Manually Manage, then you need to remove a song from your phone and then put it back once the changes are made.

Why don't you use iTunes to organise your music? What benefit is there in doing that?

When I, for example, notice an inaccuracy in one of the songs on my iPod, I make the necessary changes in iTunes and then connect my iPod to iTunes so that those changes are Synced with the iPod. And I do often have to make changes. I spot spelling errors in the Gracenote information that iTunes obtained for an album, or I want an album to be in a different genre. It happens all the time, but iTunes is a really easy method of both managing an iPod and introducing changes to the songs.

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