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Question

Problem with music

May 15, 2012 11:09PM PDT

Crazy problem. When I download music from Itunes on my computer to my Iphone, a large number of the songs' artist name is replaced with "various." This makes organizing music on my phone impossible. The longs are all listed correctly in itunes. Something seems to be getting mixed up during the download. Any suggestions?

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Clarification Request
And did you check what the SORT NAME was?
May 16, 2012 5:56AM PDT
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I checked
May 16, 2012 11:27PM PDT

The sorting tags look to be in order. I even experimented, and removed all the tags in the right column, but the songs still don't sync correctly.

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If I removed the sort tag, I wonder what happens.
May 17, 2012 1:21AM PDT

I didn't try that!

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You didn't try what?
May 17, 2012 4:07AM PDT

Not sure what you're saying. You know, all my music trouble began when I started using the cloud. It's insane.

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I'm a bit old school and controlling.
May 17, 2012 4:17AM PDT

I am not putting my stuff on the cloud. It's local so it just works fine. I hear a lot of troubles with the latest iTunes Match so I just don't use that.

It's like when a new software rolls out, say 11.0. I wait till 11.1.

One could say this is some old fuddy duddy thinking but if you've been on this ride for long you know to skip the beta runs.
Bob

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SOLVED!!
May 17, 2012 4:28AM PDT

I agree with you about the cloud. My thought was that it would be an easy security blanket for me. Here's what I discovered, and how it happened:

1. I used Tune-Up to clean up my library after all my cloud issues.
2. Tune-Up is a good program and easy to use, but I find that after artist and title, the information they match could be iffy.
3. Many of the album/artist info is wrong. As a former radio guy, I have a lot of singles that were dubbed from special releases.
4. Without releasing it, my phone was set to group by album artist. Because a lot of the info was incorrect, it caused my phone to list the songs incorrectly.
5. Turned off album artist feature, and re-sync'ed, and all is fixed.

This proves one thing, old guys like us should fiddle with settings!!!! Happy

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Item 3 was the clincher.
May 17, 2012 4:34AM PDT

Or the part that should have showed up in those dialogs that I shared in the link above.
Glad you discovered the issue.

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icloud is a mess
May 19, 2012 10:23AM PDT

You are right. icloud is a mess. I spent 35 minutes on the phone with an Apple tech trying to back up my iphone contacts and even he could not figure it out. I will not buy an iphone again because everything has to be done Apple's way and when that doesn't work you are out of luck. My previous cell phones from Verizon all were able to use Verizon's own automatic backup with no imput from me and without any problems.

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I wonder why you are special?
May 19, 2012 11:45PM PDT

Millions of iPhone users out there, backing up their iPhones to the Cloud and if, as you imply, they all have this problem, why don't we hear about it.

Didn't you have to do it Verizon's way when you had a phone from Verizon?

P

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Truth be told
May 21, 2012 12:42AM PDT

A great deal of those 'millions of users' are too naive to know how to actually *check* the integrity of their data being backed up to the iCloud, and even more relevant, they don't care about anything past the first free 5GB anyway.

That said, yes, iCloud does have some issues if you peruse the forums.