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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

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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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