Song Track Title Not Displaying On iPhone In Music App

Thanks for the response. I'm not sure I'm following your instructions though. What do you mean when you say "get info" - is that the same as the screen that comes up when you hit "song info" after right clicking on a song in iTunes?

This screen?

Wow, I'm pretty sure this fixed the issue - thanks a million!!! I have several more of these so tonight I will go through and check that this fixes them too. I'm so excited, this has been driving me absolutely nuts.

About a year ago you were helping me with this issue on another thread - you offered lots of tips but unfortunately none that would fix this issue without a TON of manual work (something with the ID Tags), and since I had so many of these, it would have taken me forever to fix all of them. This is a much quicker and more efficient fix. I'm curious when you discovered this fix? Perhaps I wasn't explaining my issue well enough before, but you hit the nail on the head right away this time. I really really appreciate the suggestion.

On another topic, I'm wondering if you can help me with an issue I'm having on the "artist" view on the iPhone music app. Before, when you clicked into a specific artist, if you didn't have a an album for that artist (but instead just a bunch of random non-album songs) you'd see those songs individually listed in a row. Made it easy to scroll through them and click the song you wanted. Now, if there is no album it's just a bunch of "unknown albums" listed, each with one individual track. So if you have an artist, with lets say 25 non-album songs, you may have to click into 25 different "unknown albums" in order to find the song you want. Here are some screen shots of what I'm talking about. any idea on how to get it back to the old way where all the non-album songs would just be listed in a row so you can quickly browse and pick what you want?

Actually, I'm having issues with your suggestion on how to get all the non-album sounds to group together in the artist view. I titled all my songs that aren't from an album "singles" but now rather than a bunch of "unknown album" folders with one song apiece, I now have a bunch of "singles" folders with one song in each of them (see screenshot) - thoughts?

Quick update on the whole "unknown album" issue. If I change the non-album songs and give them a title like "alan jackson singles" and then also update the album artist (was blank before), unfortunately nothing changes with how it displays on the music app on my iphone in the artist view. It just lists a ton of "alan jackson singles" rather than displaying one "alan jackson singles" folder and having all the songs in there. See below:

So just to be clear - initially for non-album songs I did not have anything listed under album OR album artist (both were blank) and then in the artist view I would see a bunch of "unknown album" and under each of those was one song. Then I gave them an album title like "singles" and the same thing happened (just with the title now "singles" rather than "unknown album" - still just one song in each). Adding an album artist does not make a difference.

Actually I spoke to soon. The artists view is working properly (all non-album songs located under ONE 'unknown album" folder) but the albums view now has a 1 unknown album listed for each artist that has a corresponding non-album song (see picture below).

Any idea if I can somehow get rid of the unknown albums cluttering up my album view?

Oh one other thing, I do not auto-sync my music with iTunes. In order to get a song from my iTunes onto my iPhone, I manually add it by dragging the files on iTunes onto the phone icon on iTunes. I have the "manually manage music and videos" box checked.

I also do not use Apple Music or iTunes Match

Gotcha. So is this a "unknown album" issue a new thing? Because I never needed to put "unknown album" for each and every single non-album song in order to get them to list together (rather than each of them under their own "unknown album") - must be a change in a recent iTunes update or Music app update?

ok thanks, I'll check that out.

Another quick question - it seems like somewhat recently iTunes implemented a new "search" feature - you still type your keyword into the old search bar but then rather than it automatically filtering the results you have to click on "filter music for KEYWORD" - do you know what I'm referring to? Is there a way to get it back to the old way where it just auto-filters what you're typing into the search bar?

OK I just deleted all my non-album songs off my iPhone. I have thousands of songs though by hundreds/thousands of artists. Is there a way I can quickly just have the "album artist" field match the artist field or am I going to have to manually go through each artist and manually input the album artist field? This seems like a ton of work to fix something that shouldn't be happening in the first place.

The other thing that I realized will happen is that now my albums view will by totally worthless because it's going to have a ton of "Singles" albums in there. I use the "albums" view to scroll through the different full albums I have (if I want to listen to an album) and then use the "artists" view if I want to listen to a particular artist. By having to give an album title to single songs, the two views are basically going to be the same thing. Do you follow me?

Unless I'm crazy, it seems logical that there would be a way to have only full albums listed under "albums" and then also be able to have all non-album songs bunched together under a particular artist, rather than 20 one-track "unknown albums" - is this no longer possible within the music app? It used to be much easier than this...

I hear you, but it didn't used to be like this. I've had a super organized, well laid out library for years and it used to work just fine. Seems strange that all of a sudden about 1.5-2 years ago it well went to crap.