Itunes 12.7 bug: every song is its own album

I have found that if you delete the songs from the phone and add them back again, they will now be grouped as one album. It is very perplexing why it wouldn’t do it the first time.

If I downgrade, would my current music library still be compatible with the older version?

I have the same issue on iTunes 12.7, however if I remove tags 'Album Artist' and 'Album name' from the songs with Meta audio tag editor program, and re-enter them, the albums seem to grouped together. However for this I should re-tag all my existing files.

This is obviously an iTunes bug again...

Good thing Apple goes out its way to prevent us using any other technique to get our MP3s onto the world's flagship music player.

Whenever I'm forced to use iTunes I think of Steve Jobs and what he cared most about.

Typically you want Album and Album Artist filled in with common values for all tracks on an album. Some views/sort orders in iTunes aren't album friendly. Without seeing some details it is hard to know what it happening. Occasionally iTunes will show multiple covers when it should not. Often adding and then removing say a trailing X from the fields that the tracks have in common will usually fix that.

tt2

I was addressing the particular post. Normally you want album artist completed to keep tracks by different artists on the same album linked together. That said I'm not seeing what you're seeing with regard to music synced to my devices, or I don;t understand you description of the issue. Each album appears to list correctly for me. Perhaps a screenshot of what you see that you think is wrong would make it clear?

tt2

I prefer automatic syncing to manual management. Organization within the music app ought to be the same whichever method has been used to load the content. Try as I might I only see one copy of each album cover in the albums view, and one copy of each artist in the artists view. In the songs view I'm currently sorting by artist, which is actually album by artist, so I see one cover against each song from the same album in turn as I expect.

Still not sure what it is that you see. 😕

tt2

I am having the same issue and it is very annoying. I thought it will be fixed by the new iTunes update but no. I manually manage the songs in my iPhone and everytime I drag the album folder into my phone, they show up as individual tiles of songs instead of being grouped as one album. Please let me know if you have found a solution to the problem. Thank You.

I'm having this same exact issue, ever since upgrading itunes which it required me to when I upgraded to X. I'm trying to put all the music manually I had before on it and 9 times out of 10 album is split songs as individual albums ....tried every workaround I could find and will not work, tried reinstalling itunes and same issue.

Yesterday I restored my iPhoneSE and found the same problem. I did resolve as the way you did. Drag and drop and delete and then drag and drop again, the songs will be grouped together.

I don’t know the way easier than this. I want Apple fix this issue as soon as possible because this way takes double time as usual. I wasted my yesterday’s afternoon in order to just add songs to my iPhone.

I have just now found that if I drag & drop directly to my iPhone the albums don't group, but if I first import into the iTunes library and then add to iPhone from there, they sort properly. Still a bug, but at least it's a relatively simple workaround.

NOTE TO APPLE: Have you even tried testing these updates before you publish them?

Guess what, the bug persist into version iTunes 12.7.2.58.

Workaround seems to be drag songs into iTunes and sync.

If album does not appear in Artists on the phone, it seems to be a sign that the songs are spread out to multiple identical albums. This seems to be the case 9 out of 10 times!

Delete songs from iTunes, and try again.

This is just not ok Apple!

I'm surprised you've ever been able to drag media from the file system directly to the device rather than add it the library, and then add it from the library to the device. The first one hasn't really been the Apple way. 😕

tt2

Tru dat. I used to do it that way all the time, then it didn't work at all, then it worked, and then this new issue happened. They REALLY want you to use the library.

Trouble is, the more items in your library, the slower iTunes is to load. I tried loading my entire collection into the library a long time ago, but iTunes pretty much ground to a halt.

Today, because I'm a wild and fun guy, I spent about three hours loading individual albums into the library, double-checking the tags, then dragging them onto my iPhone, then deleting them from my iTunes library. So far, they have all worked (ie displayed properly as albums on the iPhone). I'm up to the Ls in my collection. Fun times, fun times.

Thanks again, Apple.