poster72

When done as above, compilation tracks only show up under Various Artists, and not under each artist as they used to. IDK, probably reasons this is done the way it is, but i like others find it frustrating as hell

Well, after quite a bit of wasted time testing, the above suggestion to check/uncheck all of my compilations, as well as adding "Various Artists" in to the Album artist field for compilations has maybe fixed things? Going to do more testing, but thanks all. wish there was a better music manager for iphone, but im pretty integrated at this point

I have been having this issue for some time also. Figured I would post my testing results here. My biggest issue is that the Artists that exist on compilations as well as regular albums do not show up under Artists on iPhone Music once transferred. For example, Smashing Pumpkins exists on the Singles Soundtrack, so Smashing Pumpkins does not show up under Artists on iPhone. Irritating. This is not consistent either, some artists on compilations do show up under Artists. Computer blew up recently, so reloading things and decided to try and fix. Unfortunately I have been a long time user of itunes from back to the iPod days. Music is important, so i went to iPhones eventually. My library of 17k+ songs is very well maintained. I have learned many lessons, too many to remember, on how to configure this all to make it work. What I do know is my compilations are checked as such. I also use "sort album" to put year of release and title, so for most part they show up chronologically. For compilations I use "9999" before year/title to put those last. I do not use Album Artist field on compilations in iTunes, but checking my metadata it does appear Various Artists is inserted there somehow. So I loaded ONLY regular albums and synced to iPhone. Artists show up. Then I add compilations and resync, Artists still exist. Remove music from iPhone and resync all together, artists are gone now. Seems through most of my testing on this, if you add regular albums (or even all artists, including the artist's compilation tracks) and THEN you add the compilations, you retain all artists in the iPhone artist list. If you resync they stay. However, if you have to remove all the music, and add together, it breaks it again. This is crazy annoying. How do you all deal with this issue? Thinking about making my compilations "not compilations" anymore to see if i can find an answer. Assume its an issue with Various artists, as soon as you have an artist that is also on a various artist compilation, they no longer show up in artists on iphone. You can go search for them on the albums list, but they show up after your regular alphabetical albums, in no certain order, so its a real pain to find one. Anyway, sorry for long post but would love suggestions!!