Song Track Title Not Displaying On iPhone In Music App

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?

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.

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.

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?

Just tried your suggestion for one monster album called Singles and album artist set to Various Artists. Doing that fixes the album view - now just full albums plus the newly created monster Singles album are shown. This is exactly what I'm hoping for.

Unfortunately the artist view now only lists artists that I have a full album for. An artist that only has non-album songs is no longer listed on the artist view. If an artist has both a full album plus non-album songs then that artist will be listed, but when you tap on the artist name you will only see the full albums listed (the non-album songs that are now in the singles album are not listed).

I'd love to be able to use the album view to only scroll through full albums (plus the new monster singles album), and also use the artist view to see everything I have for a particular artist (full albums plus one album of the non-album songs). This is complex to explain, so let me know if I'm not being clear.

Is there anything you think I can do in order to get the Singles album to appear under each artist's albums listed in the artist view? Right now it's the artist view that I'm having trouble with.

Gotcha. I think the only way to fix the artist view in the music app on the phone for me would be if I could set the artist view to list by actual artist, not by album artist. It appears that it first defaults to album artist, and then if there is no album artist listed then it's secondary sort method is artist.

Do you know any way to change that? If I understand correctly, this would work the way I need it if artist view sorted by artist first rather than second.

Gotcha.

If I have a bunch of songs bunched together with different artwork for each song, is there a way I can quickly clear the artwork for each song rather than than having to do it manually on each song with "song info"

One more - up until recently when you had a song in an iTunes playlist that you wanted to delete, you had an option to delete the song from just the iTunes playlist OR you could delete the track from both the playlist and the entire iTunes library.

That option still exists, but I've noticed that recently when I delete a track and chose to delete from library, it doesn't actually delete from the library, just the playlist. So to me it seems like the two options now are exactly the same.

Is there a way to delete a song from both the playlist and entire library at the same time?

Anyone?? Any help is extremely appreciated!

Got it, ok. So as far as you know, the only way I can avoid this is by giving all my non-album songs an album name so that way the individual songs can display together on the iPhone?

thank-you! You provide a terrific service on here btw, thank-you.