Itunes 12.7 bug: every song is its own album

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.

Well if you want to see it that way then each to their own. Personally given the ease with which a device could be lost, stolen, damaged, or corrupted it seems daft to me not to have a complete copy of your library ready and waiting on your computer to restore to the device, or a replacement. Likewise I have my iTunes library and all of my other data that I care about backed up to guard against hard drive failure.

tt2

I have Had this problem too on IPhone 8 and Ipad 5th Gen.

I'll not go through all the painful and time consuming hoops I had to go through to find the solution that worked for me but the problem appears to be with how the media files are converted to AAC on download to the Device.

The solution is to untick the "Convert higher bit rate songs to" tick box in Summary/Options and for me every song fell into the right place after a Re-Synch. Of course this can open a whole new can of worms if your device is short on space and you have a lot of higher bit rate files.

This worked for me and I hope it works for you too!

Recopying the tracks does solve the album separation issue but as of iTunes 12.7.3 and iOS 11.2.5. Downgrading to iTunes 12.6.3 no longer provides a "solvable" solution. The results I'm seeing after deleting and recopying tracks when using iTunes 12.6.3 and iTunes 12.7.3.46 are:

Copy tracks to device (iOS 12.2.5) via iTunes 12.6.3 (Net New Library):

Tracks group according to album ad-hoc; Downloaded Music displays "Genre" as track title when viewing by Artists or Albums. Songs display correctly and playback displays track titles as expected.

Copy tracks to device (iOS 12.2.5) after first importing to iTunes 12.6.3 library (Net New Library):

Tracks group according to album as expected; Downloaded Music displays "Genre" as track title when viewing by Artists or Albums. Songs display correctly and playback displays track titles as expected.

I suspect the issue is not exclusively and iTunes for Windows/MacOS but also in the iOS Music app UI as the track details appear correctly when viewing the device Music list via iTunes.

Awesome; just awesome ... thanks again Apple.

I have a lot of mp3 files not from iTunes and consistently get this issue.

The only work around I have found is to import it into iTunes first, fix album titles artist names etc. by right clicking and selecting get info.

From there I drag it from the iTunes library onto my device, instead of dragging directly from a folder outside of iTunes onto my device and trying to change the info there.

If you've already put them on your device, delete it from your device first.

Kind of a pain because I like to keep my music on an external to save space on my computer.

Have latest iTunes. Latest OS. Have same issue. ... Have new device. Trying to load same songs I have on another device. Have edited MP3 tags in iTunes, thru Windows, thru MP3 tag utility. Nothing working.

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. See Grouping tracks into albums for more information.

tt2

This doesn't work for me.

I have all my music in my iTunes library (nothing outside).

Recently, all songs that come from ripped CDs show up on my iPhone as "Unknown Album".

Here's what i do...

1. make a playlist

2. put songs in the playlist

3. from iTunes, delete all music from the phone

4. Autofill the phone from that playlist (there's plenty of room on the phone)

But, starting maybe a month ago (?) songs from CDs all show up in the right artist, but as "Unknown Album".

Sometimes I can get things straightened out if I screw around with the Sorting values in iTunes. Sometimes that doesn't work. I have tens of thousands of songs, I'm not going to play with sorting options on all of them to work around what is clearly a new iTunes/iPhone bug.