Why iTunes classify an artist as being various artists albums

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• Why iTunes putting same artist several times?

  Recently, I added a song iTunes (from soundcloud) and edited metadata to add the name of the artist. He appeared as a separate iTunes tab even if it was the same artist name? Then, I removed the name of all the songs and their renamed by the same artist, now all the songs are in separate tabs?

  I also have this problem. I have tried everything I can find via Google for example adding Album artist, grouping as a compilation (which is not the case), the removal and re - enter the name of the Album and the name of the artist of the Album. I even tried to delete the data from drive X of Y. Nothing works...

• iTunes organization: how to fix several "Various Artists".

  Hello

  When I click on the 'Artists' view, everything is very well organized with the exception of three entries of Various Artists.  I want all the albums with 'Various Artists' under the terms of the same artist section.

  Various Artists - main entry, 57 albums (for most soundtracks): that's what I want everything to be under.

  Various Artists - album set, soundtrack.  Can not get with the rest of the artists.

  Various Artists - 2-12 titles of a compilation.  The first track of this is properly listed under the main heading of Various Artists, but I can't get the rest to go with it.

  Note: When I use the Album view, all my songs for the album from split are listed under the same album, but they are still distributed under artist.

  I tried to use "Get Info" to ensure that everything is in order, but it seems to fit, but it still does not move.

  Any help would be appreciated!

  Hello

  This problem keeps popping up.

  Navigate to one of the pieces that is in the right place and copy the text by the artist of the album - Various artists.

  It is important to make the info get in the footsteps of rogue and copy in the field artist album the text of various artists that you copied in the previous step.

  If the tracks do not go to the right place after doing this, drag the traces of red on the desktop and delete them from your iTunes library. Quit iTunes.

  Restart iTunes and then add the titles to the iTunes library... They should now all merge as should be... It may take a few goes and may take some time... See what's happening.

  

• Update iTunes 12.0.4.119 does not sort by artist album?

  With the last iTunes update, all my compilations are now classified under V (for various artists), even though at least half of them are not compilations of real and I prefer that they are filed with the main artist.  For example, the last album tribute to George Harrison (George Fest), I have the compilation box checked and individual artists listed for each track.  However, in the artist field album, I put "Harrison, George (Various Artists)" while the album is ranked immediately after my albums of George Harrison.  Now she is mixed with because v that the iTunes update eliminated the ability to sort by album artist.  I'm missing something here, or should I wait for the next update and hope they add this back in?

  iTunes will sort albums separately if the indicator "the Album is a compilation...". "is checked.  Unless you use an iPod Classic or another older iDevice, you can clear this check box and simply use the Album artist tag as you describe.

• Come on Apple! : why Itunes wants to erase my iphone to manually manage music for me

  Hello

  I wonder if there is a way to activate the option to manually manage music without the synchronization and erasing all the info on my iphone 6. It is terrible because I can't understand how to do this and I do not use my computer to store all the music on my iphone, and I don't know how to backup all my pictures and etc. in my computer. I have activated this option before on another device and was angry because when Sync I lost all my photos including images of my great-aunt who could now be passed away while she was struggling with cancer was given a little time to live. I am currently using a third-party program called AnyTrans to add titles to my iphone but I want to be able to do simply in itunes instead. That said, does anyone know how to enable this option for those of us who don't do the thing whole sync? As is - this does anyone have ideals about why itunes forces you to synchronize when you change the settings?

  Appreciate any help and advice given here. Thank you!

  Hello

  For the sake of Apple, you can only toggle a device of automatic synchronization to manual management without removing the media on this issue when it is connected to the library, with which it was previously synchronized. See recover your iTunes from your iPod or an iOS device library for general steps to recover all media on a device in the local library, after what you can afford wipe and reload it. If you choose to manage manually in the future you should keep all of your media in a local library that you have backed up so that you can restore your device or replacement as and when the need arises.

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• Why my ipod has several copies of the same album on my ipod, but only one on my list of itunes

  My ipod has several copies of both albums, but I only have everyone on my list of itune. Synced the ipod, but it remains the sam (several copies of both albums)

  For general advice, see grouping of tracks in albums . Older IPod such as classic to do not apply artist album so an album that looks OK in iTunes can break upward on the device. I recommend using a consistent value for the artist and the artist comments/featured information moving in the track names.

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• iTunes problem, some artists are sort separately

  So I have been rebuilding my music library, (got a new computer and all my music is lost on the former) so I imported all my CDs. Some of the music is sorted funky. When I sort by albums, it's all good, but when I sort by artist some artists are all split!

  For example, on the left side where it lists all the artists, I like 6 Micheal Jacksons! Some are same album but divided into two or three artists!

  Now, I checked and double-checked and rechecked than all the info from the album is the same thing... that's a promise. The thing that continues to be I click on 'get info' then click on the "Sort" tab and I see that is where are some differences, but in space ' sort as "letters are gray and when I try to enter something different it activates automatically the return!

  I don't know what I'm doing wrong here.

  It should also note that I have tuneup and I don't know if it's the cause of all my problems.

  Help, please

  If iTunes displays multiple instances of an artist or an album then generally what works is to select all the associated tracks and use read the information to add say an end X for each of the areas of the slopes have in common:

  • For an album. Album, Album artist, and artist (if the artist is the same for all tracks) *
  • For an artist; Album artist (and the artist unless there are comments/featured artists listed which should not be changed)

  Apply the change which merges things together, then remove the excess characters. Occasionally, it can help to close and reopen iTunes between two renaming operations.

  * If the titles must be synchronized to a non - iOS device, there should be a common artist or the album must be defined as a Compilation.

  Use the view of songs and display fields, Album, genre, Album, Album artist, genre artist Album, artist and genre artist side by side to see you whether or not it is necessary to change the artist and if sorting values could be the cause of additional problems. See grouping in albums, titles for help if necessary.

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• iTunes sorts only the new songs from the album artist; Cannot select multiple artists

  I had this problem for awhile now.  Whenever I have add a new song to my library, it will sort as a new artist, even if I already have this artist.  For example, I'll add a new Bayside song to my library, and despite the fact that I already have two albums of Bayside, the new song will sort itself separately from him, leaving me with two Baysides.  The only way to fix it is to add the album artist in both the novel and the stuff I already had.  It's incredibly frustrating, especially since iTunes allow me to select several artists both in the artist's view (although I can select several songs and albums - this seems to be a problem only when the view is the sidebar, as in the views of artist, Genre and composer).

  Help with fixing a problem (preferably both, although) it would be appreciated.

  I am currently using iTunes 12.3.2.

  It's a response of turingtest2 to a very similar to your question.  Maybe this will help.

  12 iTunes keeps having the same artist twice in the artist column

  Using the view songs grab all the tracks by an artist of the album given that you are having problems with and then read the information. Tab sort add set Album artist & artist album, X, click OK, and then return to . If you synchronize your content on a non - iOS such as classical iPod device, then you must also make sure artist is constant in the whole album. I propose generally invited and artists featured in the names of individual songs.

• How iTunes respect my custom artist/Album homework?

  Hello!  I am trying to transfer my iTunes music library (more 11 000 songs) from the hard drive of my old laptop (a Windows machine) to my MacBook Air (MacOS 10.10.5, iTunes 12.3.2) by copying the iTunes Media folder: Music on the old hard drive to the iTunes Media: automatically add to iTunes on my Mac folder.  In the process, I expected to "re-brand" many files to do things like making the composer the artist under which classical compositions are deposited, for example, Bach all in an artist called Bach folder (instead of have it all scattered on in different folders corresponding to the performers) and have all the tracks on the CD to several albums in a single title of the album folder (and not in separate folders for) each drive), etc.  I did already a lot of this work by hand and worked to do things in the Album artist file: unknown unknown, when I accidentally opened iTunes and it began to the add to iTunes process (which I now want to 'Cancel', if possible).  It was my pants up, but then I noticed that all the work I did for the files to "reposition" in the records of the artist and the Album of my choice is not met: in the iTunes Media folder: Music, records that I had deleted have been recreated and files I had put elsewhere were released in the old folder structure , which obviously I don't like, or I wouldn't go to so much trouble to change it.  So is there a way to achieve my goal, i.e., customize the artist and Album of the folder names and content, preferably before all be imported into iTunes, and iTunes will respect and preserve?  Thank you!

  You shouldn't do like that.  Instead, you need to take your entire iTunes folder (and not just your iTunes Media folder) on the Windows PC and put it on the MacBook Air to replace its existing iTunes folder.  iTunes on the new MacBook will look like in iTunes on the old Windows PC, with all songs and data, such as playlists, ratings, play count, date added, etc.  The existing "metadata" will be the same as before, and you can continue to work to better organise your songs in iTunes.

  If you do as you describe, your NEW iTunes library on the MacBook will be more disorganized, and you won't have your playlists (all the songs will be new songs in a new library).  This new iTunes library won't know anything about the old iTunes library.  iTunes doesn't care of the existing folder structure when you import the songs (iTunes considers new songs) to a new iTunes library.  By using the default settings, iTunes keeps the folder iTunes Media organized, based on what you see in the list of iTunes window name song music library (more Track #), Album name and artist name.

  The procedure to transfer your complete iTunes folder is described in this document

  Back up your iTunes library by copying to an external drive - Apple Support

  To sum up, the first step "consolidates" your iTunes media files (from where they are currently stored on your drive), in the designated folder iTunes Media (in your iTunes folder).  All your media files may already be store here.  Second copies of step ("backup") this folder full iTunes (which includes your iTunes library database file very important), on an external drive.  The third step "restores" that backs up the iTunes folder, in your case, for the new MacBook.  With iTunes not running, you replace the existing folder to iTunes of the MacBook with the old Windows PC.  When you run iTunes, it uses this iTunes folder; you see the same iTunes library.

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• How to customize the order of music files in the folder (no not with artist, album, #, genre or classification tabs)

  I'm trying to transfer a playlist from Itunes on a folder, but I can't understand how to keep the order of the songs as I had them in the Itunes playlist.  I can't get files .mp3 alphabetically for the artist, album or genre.  Or according to numerical order by track number # or rating.  Any help in this regard would be highly appreciated.

  Here's how to change the default template for a folder: http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/70819-windows-explorer-folder-view-settings.html.  Default behavior is to select the model based on the first type of file placed in the folder (you must choose something).  Vista sets the folder type template according to what are the types of files in the window and the settings display window Explorer. This will show how to reset the display settings for the Windows File Explorer, disable Automatic folder Type Discovery (which is I think what you want)and increase the folder display the cache to make Vista do not forget the display settings, the folder type template, the size or the position of a specific window for when it was still closed to the location of specific path.

  It does not work with the Sub record under, Open with, open in a new tab (Internet Explorer), etc... dialog windows of type through the good File menu bar item. These don't seem to be able to have their size or their position to recall. For the latter, you can use the free program http://autosizer.en.softonic.com/ to resize them.

  Here is another article on how to modify the columns in Windows Explorer and sort in Vista: http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/108665-column-customize.html.  This will show you how Add, Remove, move, change the widthand change the sort order of the columns in Windows Explorer in the way that you want.

  Here is another article on how to change the display of the default folders in Vista (but she argues, it is not a perfect solution and can revert to the previous behavior is not as good as the two prior links provided: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13880_3-10019957-68.html.)

  I hope this helps with your situation - it may take more than one item to come up with the solution - but I would start with paragraph 3.

  Good luck!

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• After you create a new playlist in iTunes, every song has the cover of the album and no box on the left side. How can I remove from the work and recover the box? TIA

  After you create a new playlist in iTunes, every song has the cover of the album and no box on the left side. How can I remove from the work and recover the box? TIA

  You can change the appearance of a selection by clicking on "reading list" in the upper right of the iTunes window. The desired view is probably "tracks"

• MSC WAV - unknown artist/album

  Hello

  Sorry if it's pretty basic, but I did not find the answer until now...

  I have a bunch of cds ripped as WAV using EAC (no options, just the 'get' and then rip cd information). Albums exist on my PC's hard disk in a folder structure "\artist\album\track" and I copied this structure through the "rocket" in MSC mode. I can browse on play the tracks on the "rocket" by dragging folders but I would also like to be able to use the rocket 'Artist' & 'Album' navigation options - all of my music appears under the giant "Unknown" artist and album 'unknown '.

  I don't want to not convert all my wav files to another format as space is not a problem for me (only used for music from 16 fuze 4 GB +) and my wav files work on a range of machines/apps.

  Is it something I can 'do' in WAV files (while sticking with MSC) so the "rocket" recognizes the album & artist?

  Thank you very much

  Rob

  See you soon. I just finished up working on lvl4 which means the encoder and CD ripping EAC FLAC work pretty much the same speed.

  The battery life is not the most amazing thing about the "rocket" but I guess very well for me at least 90% of the time.

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• is there a way to update my music information such as adding album art, song title, artist, album etc...?

  is there a way to update my music information such as adding album art, song title, artist, album etc...? on the internet?

  Hello

  Yes, it is possible to update the information of online album art. I suggest that you refer to the following articles

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  I've updated to 16 items. I want to put back some photos in an album. But when I try to drag the image to the selected place a circular symbol with a fallen on line diagonally appears instead of the arrow cursor. Why can I not move the photos in the album?

  Once you have selected an Album, the Album order, choose sort by drop-down list and then you should be able to move the images.

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