Sorting alphabetically but songs starting with T throw the sort off
The short story is this. I have a 5G iPod video 60 Gb that I use with Windows. Perhaps as a cause of the situation described below, I'm faced with a little weirdness. On my iPod, when you scroll through songs, artists, or whatever, in recent releases of the firmware, you get the letter of the alphabet with which the title starts (e.g. M when it hits Metallica and goes through the M artists, and changes to N or L depending on which way your going when you hit the artist of that letter). So as we know, iTunes and iPods are smart enough to know that when an artist, album, or song begin with the word "The", to not alphabetize it in the T's, but rather by the first letter of the next word. So we go from "Frankenstein" to "The Freshman". So the problem on my iPod is that suddenly it goes in this sequence as I scroll forward: A, T, A, T, B, T, C, D, T, D, T, D, E... The T's are for every time it hits a song starting with "The". So it's putting them in the right place, but those big letters, which I find to be very helpful when scrolling through a lot of music, are acting completely screwy. Has anyone experienced anything like this? I'm perplexed! If you want the details leading up to this, that may or may not have caused this, here they are...
As stated above, I have a 5G iPod video 60 Gb that I use with Windows and have had iPods for a long time. The only thing I really do differently than most people is I store my music on thea network drive, but since I've got it mapped on the computer, the computer itself and iTunes see it as local, and that's never been an issue. Recently I updated to iTunes 7.1, and after installation, when the program opened, everything was gone - music, playlists, etc. Fortunately, I had copies of iTunes Library.itl and iTunes Music Libary.xml that were not too old, and of course, since my music was still physically there, I replaced these files, and got back an older version of a library. Since I had newer music than was reflected in the library, I deleted the songs, and then re-imported them into iTunes. Thankfully, the ID3 tags were preserved (I think), so those modifications were not lost. After a few hours of re-creating the non-smart playlists, everything was better than ever. I still haven't figured out why this happened in the first place.
As stated above, I have a 5G iPod video 60 Gb that I use with Windows and have had iPods for a long time. The only thing I really do differently than most people is I store my music on thea network drive, but since I've got it mapped on the computer, the computer itself and iTunes see it as local, and that's never been an issue. Recently I updated to iTunes 7.1, and after installation, when the program opened, everything was gone - music, playlists, etc. Fortunately, I had copies of iTunes Library.itl and iTunes Music Libary.xml that were not too old, and of course, since my music was still physically there, I replaced these files, and got back an older version of a library. Since I had newer music than was reflected in the library, I deleted the songs, and then re-imported them into iTunes. Thankfully, the ID3 tags were preserved (I think), so those modifications were not lost. After a few hours of re-creating the non-smart playlists, everything was better than ever. I still haven't figured out why this happened in the first place.
Dell Insiprion XPS, Windows XP Pro, iTunes 7.1
