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Song name shows as Grouping name on iPhone

Hi all,

I recently have a weird problem with song names on my iPhone 7, iOS 10.2.

Some of my songs names show up as grouping name, which I set as country of origin, for no reason. For example instead of the song name, it shows up as US/UK/Japan, etc but when I play the song, it shows up as normal on the "Playing Now" panel. This doesn't affect all the songs in the album but some and majority of my albums are not affected by this.

My iTunes is very organized and I never purchased individual songs, only full album if I like the artist. I set grouping as country of origin, disc number, song number, and put full artworks. Being that kind of person myself, it annoys me to see unorganized list of my music.

Is anyone experiencing the same anomaly/problem like mine? Any solution?

iPhone 7, iOS 10.2

Posted on Jan 30, 2017 10:54 AM

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AndrewSwift

Level 1

35 points

Posted on Jul 8, 2017 1:01 PM

The problem is caused by the fact that Apple has added a new tag to iTunes tracks called "Work Name".

Work name is meant to be used for classical music to show the name of the work (as opposed to the movement).

However, Apple decided to automatically populate "work name" with the values in "grouping". So, in the Music app, it is showing you what it thinks is the name of the work being listened to, but due to a screw-up, it is showing your the grouping value instead.

To see this:

1. "Get Info" for an individual track

2. The first field is "song", but there are two arrows next to it. If you click on "song", you can change it to "work name"

To fix this:

1. Select all the affected tracks

2. "Get Info"

3. Check the box called "Use work and movement"

4. Delete the work value.

To see all the affected tracks, make a new smart playlist where "Work" is not [empty]. 8724 tracks. Thanks, Apple!

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Mar 11, 2018 5:15 PM in response to AndrewSwift

This issue never affected me until I moved over to Apple Music, and then had to rebuild my itunes library (re-download purchased tracks etc).

Every change seems to affect the Pink Floyd Collection. First it was grouping settings (on the iphone all the songs were listed as one very large album).......so rename all the albums with the correct album name.

Then everything was listed as work and movement.......lol

Your fix saved the day!

I wonder what next Itunes/Apple Music change is going to screw with the Pink Floyd collection..........hahahahahahah

If I wasn't the techie type I probably would have gotten a refund for this purchase years ago with all the hassle that's necessary to keep it operation.......

Myrms1

Level 1

4 points

Mar 18, 2018 3:05 AM in response to Harry Danubrata

Thank you Andrew.

I was having a similarly frustrating issue where on some mp3 songs, the songs, once transferred to iPad and iPhone, were showing song names as album title. So it appeared that I had 10 songs in one album with the same name. Your tip solved this. Thank you. :-)

Apr 27, 2018 7:45 AM in response to branfordman54

Well, I should have checked first. This solution is not working. Followed it carefully, but on my iPhone, Nearly every song in my 16,000 plus library shows the grouping name rather than the title. Another car of Apple "fixing" something that wasn't broken. Now, I don't know what do.

Sep 23, 2017 7:06 PM in response to AndrewSwift

AndrewSwift solution does work, but having to go through every song in iTunes (I have over 1TB of music in my iTunes library) is a huge burden on the user.

Does Apple plan to address this?

BenMpls

Level 1

9 points

Mar 11, 2017 10:04 PM in response to Harry Danubrata

I am experiencing the exact same problem. I have tried adjusting settings and re tagging songs, but nothing is working. Hopefully will be addressed in an update soon. Anyone found a solution?