I have posted a longer version of my question below, but as lots of people hate long posts here's the condensed version first:
When I go to the Music app on the iPhone and go to the 'Artists' tab all of the albums for that artist are listed in reverse chronological order (newest to oldest). I want to be able to change the order by altering the 'Year' that is listed below each album. e.g.:
XFM Series 3
12 Songs, 686 mins
2006
I have tried editing the 'Year' field by clicking on the individual songs and selecting 'Get Info', and also done the same at an album level, but nothing works. Even if I change the 'Year' field to 1999 the iPhone still shows 2006.
Where is this year being held within the file and how can I change it? I checked the ID3 tags for a song from that album in VLC and could not see 2006 referenced anywhere.
Thanks.
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And for those with a bit more patience, here is a more detailed version of my question along with what I have tried so far:
I have a selection of radio shows and podcasts that I want to sort into a certain order on my iPhone, but no matter what I do in iTunes I cannot get them to display correctly. Here's what I have done so far:
1. Split the 'songs' into 'albums', with one album for each series/ group of podcasts.
2. Made sure that all of the 'songs' are correctly labelled in the 'info' tab. The following is the same for all songs:
- Artist
- Album Artist
- All other fields are blank (with the exception of 'Year' which I will come on to later)
3. Changed the 'Album Sort' field on the 'Sorting' tab so that the albums are sorted in chronological order and the actual title of the 'album' is ignored. e.g.:
- XFM Series 1 (from 2001) is labelled as 'A' in the 'Album Sort' field
- XFM Series 2 (from 2002) is labelled as 'B'
- XFM Series 3 (from 2003) is labelled as 'C'
- XFM Series 4 (from 2004) is labelled as 'D'
- Radio 2 shows (from 2005) are labelled as 'E'
Doing the above gets the albums to display perfectly in iTunes, with them being sorted in chronological order as dictated by the 'Album Sort' field.
I then synced the albums onto my iPhone and expected all to be well, but instead found that when I went to the 'Artists' tab they were listed in reverse chronological order (newest album first). So to fix this I went into iTunes and tried the following:
1. Went into the 'info' tab for all albums and set the year to 2001 for all. As the year is the same for all it should now sort by 'Album Sort' in theory. That didn't work though so I tried...
2. Set the years in reverse order for each album, so that the latest series 'Radio 2 shows' was labelled as 2001, and the oldest album 'XFM Series 1' was labelled as 2005.
That still didn't work, but even more strangely when I view the album on the iPhone a different year is being displayed under the title, e.g.:
XFM Series 3
12 Songs, 686 mins
2006
I have checked that album in iTunes and 2006 is not contained anywhere on the album or song info tabs. I have tried to add a different year in the year field, and also delete the year field, but no matter what I do 2006 continues to be displayed.
Where is this year being held within the file and how can I change it? I checked the ID3 tags for a song from that album in VLC and could not see 2006 referenced anywhere.
Thanks for any help!
When I go to the Music app on the iPhone and go to the 'Artists' tab all of the albums for that artist are listed in reverse chronological order (newest to oldest). I want to be able to change the order by altering the 'Year' that is listed below each album. e.g.:
XFM Series 3
12 Songs, 686 mins
2006
I have tried editing the 'Year' field by clicking on the individual songs and selecting 'Get Info', and also done the same at an album level, but nothing works. Even if I change the 'Year' field to 1999 the iPhone still shows 2006.
Where is this year being held within the file and how can I change it? I checked the ID3 tags for a song from that album in VLC and could not see 2006 referenced anywhere.
Thanks.
--------------------------------------
And for those with a bit more patience, here is a more detailed version of my question along with what I have tried so far:
I have a selection of radio shows and podcasts that I want to sort into a certain order on my iPhone, but no matter what I do in iTunes I cannot get them to display correctly. Here's what I have done so far:
1. Split the 'songs' into 'albums', with one album for each series/ group of podcasts.
2. Made sure that all of the 'songs' are correctly labelled in the 'info' tab. The following is the same for all songs:
- Artist
- Album Artist
- All other fields are blank (with the exception of 'Year' which I will come on to later)
3. Changed the 'Album Sort' field on the 'Sorting' tab so that the albums are sorted in chronological order and the actual title of the 'album' is ignored. e.g.:
- XFM Series 1 (from 2001) is labelled as 'A' in the 'Album Sort' field
- XFM Series 2 (from 2002) is labelled as 'B'
- XFM Series 3 (from 2003) is labelled as 'C'
- XFM Series 4 (from 2004) is labelled as 'D'
- Radio 2 shows (from 2005) are labelled as 'E'
Doing the above gets the albums to display perfectly in iTunes, with them being sorted in chronological order as dictated by the 'Album Sort' field.
I then synced the albums onto my iPhone and expected all to be well, but instead found that when I went to the 'Artists' tab they were listed in reverse chronological order (newest album first). So to fix this I went into iTunes and tried the following:
1. Went into the 'info' tab for all albums and set the year to 2001 for all. As the year is the same for all it should now sort by 'Album Sort' in theory. That didn't work though so I tried...
2. Set the years in reverse order for each album, so that the latest series 'Radio 2 shows' was labelled as 2001, and the oldest album 'XFM Series 1' was labelled as 2005.
That still didn't work, but even more strangely when I view the album on the iPhone a different year is being displayed under the title, e.g.:
XFM Series 3
12 Songs, 686 mins
2006
I have checked that album in iTunes and 2006 is not contained anywhere on the album or song info tabs. I have tried to add a different year in the year field, and also delete the year field, but no matter what I do 2006 continues to be displayed.
Where is this year being held within the file and how can I change it? I checked the ID3 tags for a song from that album in VLC and could not see 2006 referenced anywhere.
Thanks for any help!