I like to keep my itunes neat and organised, so naturally I like to keep the correct artist name for each song. Unfortunately, I have a problem. This only happens with one song, it's in a compilation so the artist originally listed on the song was 'various artists', and while I have no such issue with any of the other songs, when I change the artist name on this particular track, the song is suddenly listed as 'unknown album' and the only way to change it back is to change the artist back to various. All of the songs in the album share the same album artist so I don't know why this would happen, particularly with this one song. I cant find anything about this issue anywhere so it would be great if someone could help.
Changing artist name on itunes without changing to unknown album
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In general, you're already using the correct way to sort by album name. Click "Music" then, "Albums"
The problem you're seeing with compilations being shown multiple times for each artist has always been a problem even in older versions of iTunes. In order to fix this, you'll need to modify the Album Artist field in the track info.
To do this, press ⌘+i (Ctrl+i on Windows), then put “VA” into the Album Artist field (Note: using “Various Artists” or any matching string should also work). You can select multiple tracks with ⌘+Click (Ctrl+Click on Windows) to edit many tracks on the same compilation at a time.
I've written “Various Artists” in the Album Artist field, and ticked the Compilations box. It works fine for me in iTunes, on my iPad, iPhone, iPod nano and my ATV. So my suggestion is to try write something in the Album Artist field.
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Best Answer
Have you tried deleting the ID3 tags?