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jeff123816

macrumors member
Original poster
Jun 18, 2009
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I'm a bit new to iOS and so this may be a known issue but yesterday, I used iTunes to sync my music to my iPhone 6+ for the first time. I'm updated to the latest version of iOS. I have about 50 albums, maybe 500 songs. When I launch the music app, I am able to see all the individual songs as I scroll through the "songs" filter, however, When I bring up any of the other filters (albums, artists, genres, etc.) I only get five or six random albums/artists/genres results. The vast majority of my songs only show up in the "songs" view, meaning that I have to scroll through 500+ song titles to locate a song from an album that I want to hear. This is definitely not a tagging problem because when I play an individual song from the song list, it is associated with its album and I can actually access the entire album once the song is playing. I also verified that the correct tagging is present in iTunes. But browsing through my list of albums or artists on the phone only gets me a few results. I turned Apple Music off in the iOS preferences and have never established an iCloud music library, so I don't think this has anything to do with the cloud-based issues. Is there something that I can do to get the offline library to function correctly in iOS?

Thanks!
 

jr866gooner

macrumors 68020
Aug 24, 2013
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my albums are under compilation but that is because I've all my music in unique by year albums manually created. I used to have an issue with not being able to look by artist but that was down to a setting in music settings!
 

jeff123816

macrumors member
Original poster
Jun 18, 2009
42
5
Well, in my case it was definitely a bug because I didn't have any unique tagging issues going on. I decided to remove all the music and then re-synced it in iTunes. Now all the music is showing up correctly. Weird...
 
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