Hi Sieghard, Thanks for the suggestion. That is exactly the problem. Although the artist field is populated correctly, there is another field called album artist which is not populated at all.
Kimber On 6/12/14, Sieghard Weitzel <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Kimber, > > Go to one or two of the songs from your Playlist in iTunes and press > Control+I for "Get Info". This shortcut is for Windows. Now go to the Info > tab and check the fields there for artist, album artist, album etc. I > assume > maybe the songs in your Playlist don't have the correct ID3 tags or maybe > they don't have any ID3 tags. iTunes and the music app on your phone uses > these tags to group music by artist, album, genre etc. > > > Regards, > Sieghard > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of Kimber Gardner > Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2014 2:50 AM > To: viphone > Subject: SWhy does iTunes not show the music that is actually on my phone? > > Hi All, > > I used to think I understood the process for syncing music through iTunes, > but recently I've begun to doubt that. > > For example, I have some music by Marvin Gay on my phone. I have a playlist > that contains approximately eighteen songs. I also have another song which > I > recently purchased that is not part of the playlist. When I look under > artists on the phone, I see only one album and one song by Marvin Gay. Yet > when I look under playlists, my entire Marvin Gay playlist is there with > all > eighteen songs. > > I'm sure there are other discrepencies, but can anyone explain why the > artist representation does not reflect the music that is on the phone? > I mean, why even have that information available if it isn't accurate? > > Any enlightenment will be much appreciated. > > Kimber > > -- > Kimberly > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. > All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any > questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a > member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators > directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list > can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. > All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any > questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a > member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators > directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list > can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Kimberly -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
