Do the new iPods sort by Album Artist?
As far as I know, my old iPod mini displays every permutation of an Artist tag as a separate Artist when browsing regardless of what the Album Artist is set to, which is terribly annoying.
That is,
TITLE. Price you pay
ARTIST: UNKLE
ALBUM ARTIST: UNKLE
ALBUM: War Stories
TITLE: Burn my shadow
ARTIST: UNKLE feat. Ian Astbury
ALBUM ARTIST: UNKLE
ALBUM: War Stories
will show up as two entries ("UNKLE" and "UNKLE feat. Ian Astbury") when browsing by Artist, which makes it necessary to browse by Album to be able to play the whole album. Is this the case for the new iPods as well? I know the iPhone can't handle this properly.
I'm thinking of buying one, but if this still is the case, it's pretty much unusable.
Thanks.
That is,
TITLE. Price you pay
ARTIST: UNKLE
ALBUM ARTIST: UNKLE
ALBUM: War Stories
TITLE: Burn my shadow
ARTIST: UNKLE feat. Ian Astbury
ALBUM ARTIST: UNKLE
ALBUM: War Stories
will show up as two entries ("UNKLE" and "UNKLE feat. Ian Astbury") when browsing by Artist, which makes it necessary to browse by Album to be able to play the whole album. Is this the case for the new iPods as well? I know the iPhone can't handle this properly.
I'm thinking of buying one, but if this still is the case, it's pretty much unusable.
Thanks.
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As far as I know, my old iPod mini displays every permutation of an Artist tag as a separate Artist when browsing regardless of what the Album Artist is set to, which is terribly annoying.
That is,
TITLE. Price you pay
ARTIST: UNKLE
ALBUM ARTIST: UNKLE
ALBUM: War Stories
TITLE: Burn my shadow
ARTIST: UNKLE feat. Ian Astbury
ALBUM ARTIST: UNKLE
ALBUM: War Stories
will show up as two entries ("UNKLE" and "UNKLE feat. Ian Astbury") when browsing by Artist, which makes it necessary to browse by Album to be able to play the whole album. Is this the case for the new iPods as well? I know the iPhone can't handle this properly.
I'm thinking of buying one, but if this still is the case, it's pretty much unusable.
Thanks.
Why not just change it to this, as I do?:
TITLE: Burn my shadow (feat. Ian Astbury)
ARTIST: UNKLE
ALBUM: War Stories
Why not just change it to this, as I do?:
TITLE: Burn my shadow (feat. Ian Astbury)
ARTIST: UNKLE
ALBUM: War Stories
I'd prefer to not mess up my tags. iTunes 8 was a great upgrade in this regard, but the iPods didn't seem to follow suit.