iPad music app: album count incorrect/too large in artist view

I am having the exact problem and it started exactly when the problem first started for you, too it seems! I am not sure what to do... it is really annoying.

Cool, please do. Don't think it's got anything to do with iCloud or iTunes Match in my case but it would be good to know a fix for this as it drives me insane.

Any news on this? I still haven't been able to find a fix.

I'm experiencing what appears to be the same problem. Incorrect album count on artist view in the Music app on iPad3, IOS 6. Problem started appearing after the upgrade to IOS 6. I don't use iTunes Match and the incorrect album counts don't seem to correlate with what I have in iTunes library on the PC I sync my iPad with for music.

I figured out the pattern and there is a correlation to what is in the iTunes library on my PC that I sync my iPad with.

The incorrect counts appear on the iPad where there are more albums in my iTunes library than I have sync'd to my iPad. The counts are equal the number of albums I have in my iTunes library, with one exception. Where I have purchased an album from iTunes Store and later renamed the album title (e.g. deleted "(Deluxe Version)" suffix to clean up how the album titles display in iTunes and Music apps), that related album is counted twice.

I suspect that this is somehow related to new functionality added with IOS 6 and iTunes Match service, however I do not use iTunes Match (never have) and that setting is turned off on my iPad.

I'm dealing with this as well...I do use iTunes Match but even with it off I get the wrong album count. It's annoying for sure.

Try this:

Go into Settings -> Music and turn off "Sort By Album Artist", that seems to have fixed it for me.

Thanks for the suggestion JWeaver60. The album count problem goes away because that setting eliminates grouping of albums so there is nothing to count, however I don't like how the Artists view renders my albums with that setting off. Albums with multiple contributing artists get blown out into many items now. For example, I have the album Songs for Japan, which has 19 contributing artists. Each one now shows as a separate entry in the Artists view with the Songs for Japan artwork as the thumbnail, "Various Artists" as the artist name and then the song name. Even though "Various Artists" is the artist name showing under the thumbnail, each entry appears alphabetically based on the artist of that specific song. It looks terrible.

I think Apple needs to correct the other issue.

This is some sort of issue with iOS6. There are several threads (and theories) as to why this is happening. But the bottom line is, Apple needs to correct the problem.

One person indicated that the actual number of albums (by a particular artist) in his iTunes Library was the number of albums indicated on the iPad, regardless of the number of albums he chose to sync. In other words, if I have 10 albums by artist "ABC" in my iTunes Library, but chose to sync only 5 of them, the iPad would still indicate 10 albums by "ABC" (because it's looking to the iTunes Library for the album count instead of the number of actual albums that were synched to the iPad). While that theory makes sense, I found it to be somewhat untrue, at least in my case.

What I discovered is, if you rename or make a change to any of the metadata associated with a track from a particular album, then that album is duplicated when you sync, displaying the original album tracks (sans the one or two you changed) under the album name and a second version is created (using the exact same album name) but displaying only the track or tracks you modified. This in turn, increases your album count by one. So instead of showing the entry as just one album, the count now reads two for the same title. To make things even more confusing, if you go back and modify both versions of the album, successully combining the two back into one, so to speak (this can be done by renaming the artist to some other name, synching, then renaming it back to the correct artist), the album will then display correctly (just one "vesrion" showing on the iPad), but the album count remains unchanged (still indicating two). Basically, the count isn't reset, but remains incorrect.

Hopefully, I didn't confuse everyone. But it's difficult to explain. From everything I've read, it appears to be a combination of things; Album count and display, as well as creating additional album "instances" if any tracks are modified.

In any event, I hope they fix it soon. Because if you have a large music library like mine, it takes no time to really screw things up!

Hello,

This all thing of "getting incorrect album counts for artists under artists view" is happening to me too!

And it's getting worst by the hour!

I have iOS 6.0.1 (10A523), and option Group By Album Artist is ON.

I use iCloud only for Contacts and Calendar.

I don't use Match iTunes but Automatic Dowloads for Apps and Books is ON (not for Music)

I begin to notice first with Tangerine Dream, where i had 7 albums and the count was 9.

What i did:

1- Deleted all music in iPad.

2- Deleted all music and the library files in iTunes (PC).

3- Connected iPad to iTunes and synced only one entire album of Tang. Dream

4- Result: the count is now 13!

5- Synced the rest of the library, about 40Gb local (inside iPad) and now almost any Artist has that incorrect count!

Anyone tried to contact/email Apple with this?

Any feedback from Apple?

best regards,

JaFre

http://www.apple.com/feedback/

You might also check your tagging in iTunes to make sure you are using the same Album Artist for all tracks in an album.