iTunes music tracks sync to iPhone with wrong data, even though it's listed in iTunes library differently.

You aren't the only one. I have the same issue as you. I would use those screenshots and send it to Apple Support if you can. They need to know that iOS 8.2 is the issue.

I have issues with the & (artist's name) not showing.

For instance on my iPhone it says Pitbull-Time of our Lives-Globalization, but when I looked at my home computer of iTunes it says Pitbull & Ne-Yo. There is a way on iTunes on home computer to see "On your device" with a cell phone icon.

I deleted all my songs on my iPhone5C, did factory reset, then synced my iPhone to my home computer and still had same issues. The thing is I never had issues at all till Wed of last week. That's when I noticed mysteriously that Pitbull song changed artist name all by itself!

I am having the same problem as posted here:

iTunes Artist Name Doesn't Transfer to iPhone

No solution has been given yet, but similar to you I have changed the name of some artists so certain songs can be grouped together. But then when I sync it to the phone it reverts back to the artist and album when I first purchased it from iTunes, all though the original artist is no where to be found in the "Get Info" section. You are not the only one, and it is quite annoying to say the least

And similar to the post above me, I also did a factory reset, and a backup restore, to still have the same problem. It's now grouping artists together who shouldn't even be listed together who at no point were done by the same artist.

I wonder if we can ask Apple Support to download the problem songs on their own and see if they understand what is up!

But these screenshots do help a lot. Here are my problem songs

This is what SHOULD appear on my iPhone.

1. Bailando por el Mundo (Juan Magan, El Cata & Pitbull) The King Of Dance (Bonus Track Version)
2. Como Yo (Juan Magan & Buxxi) The King Of Dance (Bonus Track Version)
3. Danza Kuduro (feat.Lucenzo) (Don Omar & Lucenzo) Meet The Orphans (Deluxe Edition)
4. No Sigue Modas a.k.A Ella No Sigue Modas (Don Omar & Juan Magan) Don Omar Presents MTO2-New Generation
5. Nota de Amor (feat. Daddy Yankee) Wisin & Carlos Vives Nota de Amor (feat. Daddy Yankee)-Single
6. Time of Our Lives (Pitbull & Ne-Yo) Globalization

For those problem songs I have in bold, on my iPhone it shows up as

You can see that the & (artists name) are all missing.

1. Juan Magan

2. Juan Magan

3. Don Omar

4. Don Omar

5. Wisin

6. Pitbull

I Don't think its tied to specific song, like at this point it's effecting songs I've downloaded 3 years ago up until a few days back. It's like its keeping constant communication with iTunes and making the artist name appear and group a certain way, regardless of what I tell it to be. It's very annoying. I would contact Apple support for sure if they don't already know about it and fix it soon hopefully.

Have any you tried emailing iTunes store support? I sent them this particular post to them. I think the screenshots of the iTunes store, and then the screenshot of the cell phone itself is good idea.

Did anyone try calling which is the tech support?

United States

1-800-275-2273

mrmet2087, that is surprising how songs that you downloaded three years ago, mysteriously appear wrong on your cell phone. I don't think our cell phones are acting up. It has to be the iOS 8.2 or the iTunes store itself. I deleted iTunes from my home computer, then re downloaded again.

http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/

So now I have the most up to date version of iTunes (12.1.1) on my home computer. But that didn't seem to fix the issue. Did anyone try to upgrade their version of iTunes to see if it fixed the issue?

Anna

I see a couple people over these forums having the same issue that we are, but yet kind of disappointing that no one has found a fixed yet or there's been no address of this problem.

Got the same problem here. Doing my head in. It really bugs me. Spent the last few hours trying to fix it. Deleted all music off my iPhone 6 and Air 2... still nothing changed! Even re downloaded them onto my mac then synced devices but again nothing 😟

I just downloaded the new version of iTunes which is 12.1.2 for the computer. I then synced my iPhone5C to it thinking maybe it will fix the problem songs, but so far nothing. I have iOS 8.3 on my iPhone5C. I did synced my iPod Nano 3rd Gen into computer and no issues on my iPod. So it has to be iOS 8.2 and 8.3 causing these change artist names! UGH!!!

I've sent a bug report in at https://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html

Have fully cleared iTunes Match, reinstalled everything, factory reset my phone - nothing's fixed it and I don't think a user workaround is possible.

Hopefully gets patched out/fixed up sometime soon!

Same here! Having the exact same issue. I even deleted the song I was having the issue with and purchased a new copy off of the iTunes store. Same problem! Waste of $1.29!!

First of all, thanks for the very detailed description. At least now I know I'm not alone, and your clear description proves that.

I have the exact same problem and it is affecting both my music and videos. It's very random, but appears to be impacting music that "features" a different artist vs. album artist, the most. For instance, Miranda Lambert [f/ Carrie Underwood] is being listed on my iPhone AND iPad for songs that are clearly just Miranda Lambert. Or replacing artist Miranda Lambert with Little Big Town or Blake Shelton! My guess is, that is once again, iTunes is attempting to cross-cross-polinate "like-artists" to generate sales. Which ****** me off. Because when their methodology goes awry, it really screws up. In the Miranda Lambert example, if I control click the the music video info box, guess what shows up under "Related Videos"??? Mr. Lambert (ah, Shelton), himself and Little Big Town. Coincidental? I think not.

In any event, it's very annoying and needs to be fixed. I have a large iTunes library and I'm very meticulous about keeping things properly labeled and synced, and it's extremely annoying when suddenly, 1/3 of your music on your devices are mislabeled and sorted incorrectly as a result. I've tried everything from reseting my iPad/iPhone, to totaling wiping them out and doing complete restores... twice! I tried relabeling the music randomly, then resynching... turning off Wi-Fi, disabling my Apple ID and iCloud... But nothing fixes it.

Help!!!

All my devices show the same nonsense, even though iTunes is fine. It seems like the issue is happening up in the iCloud. What a frustrating mess. By the way, there's a couple threads in the iTunes Match forum you may want to take a look at -- no fixes, of course, but some folks have gotten through to Tier 2 techs.

This very problem just appeared to my mac/iphone/Ipad.

I have a very large library of songs (more than 5,000), and it really ****** me off, to have a large percentage of the songs with the wrong Metadata.

Now I am running IOS 8.4 and the problem started when I started using Apple music.

Interesting... my problems went away with 8.4 and Apple Music. Keep us posted on the progress. Good luck!