Question about my ipod.....

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I put Arular in my ipod and for some reason that are two folders for the album, with one having just one song, and the others have all the other songs. Anyone know how to fix this?

― James Morris (HorrayJames), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 22:07 (twenty years ago)

if the one that has one song says "compilation" or "various artists", go into itunes go to that one song and uncheck the box that says something like "part of a compilation".

― Christopher Costello (CGC), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 22:14 (twenty years ago)

Sometimes you may have mistakenly put a space in after the title, take the space out.

EG.

ARULAR

Should fix itself and morph into one folder.

― pher (pher), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 22:45 (twenty years ago)

nice work dipshit, but the double spaces don't register on ILX.

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 22:47 (twenty years ago)

btw, call me.

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 22:47 (twenty years ago)

also, these are the threads you post on?

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 22:47 (twenty years ago)

You mean the threads where he knows the answer to a question?

― James Morris (HorrayJames), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 22:51 (twenty years ago)

Oh, btw, thanks. It would be annoying to have to listen to part of an album and then switch over to another folder and then switch back.

― James Morris (HorrayJames), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 22:52 (twenty years ago)

Is one of the tracks maybe listed as a "bonus" or something?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 22:54 (twenty years ago)

no, i'm sure he downloaded the album and one track was tagged differently. id3 tags. yeah.

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 22:56 (twenty years ago)

I've got a problem with multiple folders showing up for the same artist, but each folder is the same. It's like one is an alias of the other, but that's not right. When you look at it in iTunes, you only see one set, but the iPod shows two of each.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 23:00 (twenty years ago)

are you sure there aren't errant spaces that you do not notice? the best way to fix this is to select the whole album in itunes, do a GET INFO and see if the tags are consistent.

if the album is tagged wrong, the artist will be blank, or the album will be blank. just re-enter the info.

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 23:03 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, what they said.

Just grab all the files for the album while in iTunes and retag any blank fields (artist, album, etc.) that will put them all back together again.

Also, clearing out the "of" track # field can prevent albums from getting out of whack.

― grauzone, Thursday, 6 October 2005 12:46 (twenty years ago)

are you sure there aren't errant spaces that you do not notice? the best way to fix this is to select the whole album in itunes, do a GET INFO and see if the tags are consistent.

Yup. One of the bands this happens to is Pavement. Click on one folder in the iPod and you see their albums along with some of their b-sides. Click on the other folder for Pavement, and there's the exact same discography. Usually in the past when this would happen because of something like "Echo & The Bunnymen versus Echo + The Bunnymen", some songs would go to one side and some songs would go to the other. You wouldn't see the same song in both folders unless that song was burned into the iPod twice. Trust me, I don't have all of those wacky Pavement songs burned twice.

I just checked for sanity's sake, and yup, all the artist tags are marked Pavement. It's a weird problem that I can't find an answer for . Long as the damn thing keeps playing, I guess I'm doing okay.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 6 October 2005 13:26 (twenty years ago)

If you're talking about "URAQT", it's only included in the UK version. Is that the errant track?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 6 October 2005 13:30 (twenty years ago)

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