Can't change artist name in iTunes 11

This certainly helped me, but Apple needs to get someone with a brain to work on this!

What I found was a field called "Album Artist" that was causing the problems. The actual "Artist" field was correct. The idea that you have to do a Get Info to make these changes when you can still click and edit the name in the display as you used to in the previous release is absurd... It seems they could put some help text out there also... I have no idea how you guys found this, but thank you... This a huge find!

Apple is certainly not the same company it used to be... Quality is heading for the sewer!

I fixed it:

Right click on the song/movie, show in windows explorer, select all songs from album, right click, properties, untick read only in attributes.

Hello, it was annoying me too but I've found a fix! If you put the song/artist in question into a playlist you can click on teh artist like in previous versions and edit it there! 😀 Hope this helps.

I'm not sure about this but if you put the Artist name in the Album Artist field as well as artist and give all the tracks the same album name i Think it will work.

The songs I'm unable to edit do not have the read only atribute set. i'musing Windows 7 and iTunes 11.0.4.4. Anyone find a solution to a similar problem?

Thanks iCcucify, this worked. Why the heck does iTunes 11 make these files read-only? I hope these can be globally changed, instead of one song at a time.

go to get info, then sorting, then make sure that album artist and sort album artist are the same.

this worked. thanks!

That did the trick. TY.

Thank YOU!

This works well

I don't have windows explorer as I'm on a Mac. How do I fix this problem using a mac?

That was the ticket. TY.

This didn't help me at all. And when I checked later, all the folders, files, etc. had the read only square filled again. This never seems to work in Windows.