iTunes or inport?

Alfred · 11-16-2011, 09:57 PM

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Originally Posted by jackhammer

Do not talk to me about itunes. I mistakenly updated the latest version and spent a day and a half trying to get a mere 20 gigs of music onto my ipod touch.

I have music that shows up in the album section but not the artist section. Some albums have been put on three times and some are listed but have no files. If you have a band for example Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings, it won't recognise the album if it comes up with '&' instead of 'and'. Surely they have the software to recognise them as the same thing? Many albums missing track one and put into a separate album and the amount of times I have added artwork, correct tags, profiles etc only to find that what's in my itunes folder doesn't end up on my ipod.

Considering it is supposed to be this all encompassing database of music it is seriously flawed and even if you have one track with a space before the bands name it won't put it into the same album. HATE HATE HATE. I can't get on with mediamonkey either so that's a no no for me.

I have this exact same problem. I restored my Touch yesterday and it's fine now, but I know that the minute I add a new artist, the alphabetical ordering will be way out of wack.

RMR · 11-16-2011, 10:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Alfred

I have this exact same problem. I restored my Touch yesterday and it's fine now, but I know that the minute I add a new artist, the alphabetical ordering will be way out of wack.

There's a trick to the ordering. You can't be in the cover flow view. I'm traveling and don't have my iTunes in front of me, but I think you have to choose the album icon view, then you can arrange by multiple parameters and choose the order: Artist, album, year, etc. in any order you want. Then you can switch back to cover flow.

If you Google search it, there are good instructions.