HowardBrazee
iPF Noob
I synchronize my iPad daily with my iTunes on my Mac. The setup is to sync the entire music library.
But I keep having trouble finding some songs. I looked for a song today that I knew was on my iTunes, the title is "It Was a Very Good Year" from the album "Genius Loves Company" with Ray Charles and Willie Nelson singing. I selected "Ray Charles", don't see the song, then "See More by Ray Charles", don't see the song, then "See All", and finally found it. When I selected it, I got an offer to get 3 months free of Apple Music. I think this list has all of his songs. I wish I had found his song earler.
That's not what I want. I just want music I bought on my iPad.
I went home and connected it to my Mac and double checked to see if the song was on iTunes, and everything was synchronized. Remembering the name of the song, I searched by name and found it on my iPad and could play it.
So searched for "Genius Loves Company". It came up with only 2 songs from the album, not including the song I just played. I want to see all of the songs from that album. So I go to Albums, and scroll down to "Genius Loves Company". It shows 3 albums by that name, one having songs 1-11, one having 11-12, and one having song #1.
I went to iTunes 12.7.0, selected albums and sorted it by title. Yep, 3 albums, I was able to edit them so that the title and artist agreed (why were they different, I don't know), then synchronized. Now there are only two albums of that name and artist on my iPad - the cover art is slightly different. One album has the cover that is in iTunes, but only song #1. The other has a different cover, but it has every song.
I finally decided to skip playlists and just list songs, sorted by artist or title, but not available to sort by album. I see several Ray Charles albums - but not that Ray Charles album. I found it sorted by name. The album artist is "Various artists", while the song is "Ray Charles & Willie Nelson". So I looked in my iPad, sorted by Artist, and found a bunch of randomly named artists sorted under "V", including this song.
This last thing really looks like a bug.
What *should* I have done to quickly find the song I was looking for?
But I keep having trouble finding some songs. I looked for a song today that I knew was on my iTunes, the title is "It Was a Very Good Year" from the album "Genius Loves Company" with Ray Charles and Willie Nelson singing. I selected "Ray Charles", don't see the song, then "See More by Ray Charles", don't see the song, then "See All", and finally found it. When I selected it, I got an offer to get 3 months free of Apple Music. I think this list has all of his songs. I wish I had found his song earler.
That's not what I want. I just want music I bought on my iPad.
I went home and connected it to my Mac and double checked to see if the song was on iTunes, and everything was synchronized. Remembering the name of the song, I searched by name and found it on my iPad and could play it.
So searched for "Genius Loves Company". It came up with only 2 songs from the album, not including the song I just played. I want to see all of the songs from that album. So I go to Albums, and scroll down to "Genius Loves Company". It shows 3 albums by that name, one having songs 1-11, one having 11-12, and one having song #1.
I went to iTunes 12.7.0, selected albums and sorted it by title. Yep, 3 albums, I was able to edit them so that the title and artist agreed (why were they different, I don't know), then synchronized. Now there are only two albums of that name and artist on my iPad - the cover art is slightly different. One album has the cover that is in iTunes, but only song #1. The other has a different cover, but it has every song.
I finally decided to skip playlists and just list songs, sorted by artist or title, but not available to sort by album. I see several Ray Charles albums - but not that Ray Charles album. I found it sorted by name. The album artist is "Various artists", while the song is "Ray Charles & Willie Nelson". So I looked in my iPad, sorted by Artist, and found a bunch of randomly named artists sorted under "V", including this song.
This last thing really looks like a bug.
What *should* I have done to quickly find the song I was looking for?
