Song Track Title Not Displaying On iPhone In Music App

I've had a reoccurring issue over the last couple years and am hoping someone may be able to shed some light on what's causing my issue. I'm old school, so I keep all my music on my computer and then manually add songs from iTunes (most recent software updated) to my iPhone 6S (most recent software updated). I do not use the iCloud for any of my music.


The issue I'm having is when I try to load songs from my iTunes onto my iPhone, some of the songs will transfer over to the phone but will the the track titles will not display correctly in the music app in the iPhone. This does not happen to all songs, just some of them. All of the metadata is properly displaying in iTunes but something happens during the transfer process causing the titles to not display properly on the phone (there is no title at all).


Here is an example of what I'm talking about with a recent album I just tried loading onto my phone today. This is a short 4 track album, but none of the 4 songs' track titles are displaying on my phone.


If anyone has any advice, I would GREATLY appreciate it.


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iPhone 6s, iOS 11.4

Posted on Jul 8, 2018 4:42 PM

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Posted on Jul 9, 2018 12:39 PM

At a guess these tracks are in MP3 format and you had something (a single space perhaps) entered in the Grouping field. When the Work and Movement features for classical music were introduced Apple decided to reuse this field for the Work name. Use Get Info, copy tick the box that says Use Work and Movement, cut the existing value with CTRL-X, untick the box, paste into Grouping with CTRL+C if needed, and click OK. Sync. You should now see the correct track names on your iPhone.


If you see this issue with .aif tracks then the unwanted work value cannot be removed for some reason. The workaround is convert the tracks to Apple Lossless, edit, then convert back if required.


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