Monday, July 28, 2008

[Apple iPod] Artists list in iPod menu

i have an album by laibach called sympathy for the devil. all songs are
by laibach but they have a couple other "band" names they use on some of
the tracks. for fun, i thought i would use those band names for their
tracks instead of just using laibach across the whole thing (so in
itunes and on the ipod it would match the album)...

so what i did was this:

1. i changed the artist name
2. i entered laibach into the sort artist field
3. compilation - no

now in the ipod's cover flow it looks perfect. the album is listed
once, in the laibach section, where it should be, w. all the tracks in
their right order. and when i play the album, the songs' artists change
from laibach to one of the others when it is appropriate, and then back
to laibach, etc. etc. all is well...

except:

now in the artists section of my ipod, laibach is listed like 4 or 5
times, all under "L"... and w. these other band names interspersed
between the multiple entries! this drives me up the wall. every time i
see it i want to body slam the ipod or maybe hit it w. a hammer. so
much so that i took the artists section out of the music menu. but i
don't really want to live w. it like that. i want to fix this. but i
can't see how there is anything at all wrong... it's just doing this and
maybe there is nothing we can do about it?

please help!

thank you.

greg

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