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I travel. My Ipod is a Godsend in planes and in hotels.
I downloaded a lot of the classical music i have bought recently only to find that the "naming" of the artist and the composer and how everything is organized leaves me with fragments of albums here and there, at worst, and, at best, I can't find Mozart under Mozart, but rather under the name of the director, or the soloist, or who knows.
I have a solution, and I implemented it. It wasn't very elegant, but it worked....I think.
What is the elegant solution?
"Live free or die"
The key is to develop a system and stick with it.
For all my classical works the artist field consists of the last name of the composer and the last name of the principal performer (soloist, conductor etc.). On the Ipod, I select the genre heading which will then show me a list of all of the works by Adams, Albeniz, Bach, Bartok etc. subdivided by principal performer.
Also when I rip from CDs - my primary method of populating ITunes - I use the join tracks option for multi-movement pieces.
One thing you can try is this: From the Itunes tool bar at the top where you see Name, Composer, Time, Artist, etc, click on "Composer." Then make sure the names of all the composers are there for every piece. They need to be referred to consistently, otherwise they will show up as different composers on the Ipod. Computers are very literal. If any composer names are missing, right click on them and click on "get info." Then click on "Info" on the menu that comes up. Then you can manually type in the composer's name in the "composer" line, as well as the any other items as you want to fill in, making sure that you are perfectly consistent in how you label things. Be patient, it can be time consuming. One problem I had with CD's that I uploaded to Itunes was that the encoded info from the discs were not always consistent. For example, there were several different ways of labeling Beethoven: Beehoven, Beethoven, L. V., Beeethoven, Ludwig van, Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827), etc. I ended up with several different groups of Beethoven works on the Ipod. I had to manually change them to one form of the name.I am not sure why the order of movements get reversed. In Itunes I have to select composer on the bar at the top to get them in the right order; clinking on Artist or Name reverses them. But I not sure how that translates to the Ipod when you sync. But I would suggest making sure movements are in the right order on Itunes before you sync.
Edits: 10/19/09
I don't think I have the "order" problem, but I will check. I think it's due to "overlap" between albums with one composer and scant other info.
"Live free or die"
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