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I've never even heard of this feature.

Wouldn't all the songs on a compilation belong to the same album? So you could scroll through your "Albums" and listen to the songs that way?

I mean a button that organizes your compilations like compilations--a function that comes standard with iTunes and every iPod ever made--as opposed to spreading them into 20 separate sections of your "Artists" lists, thus organizing your music collection in a completely retarded, counterintuitive way that no one outside of a 12-year-old girl who has never owned a single CD would find even remotely useful.

uh the iPhone can do this as I said before:

1. Go to the "More" section.
2. Select "Compilations".

If you want to have a button at the bottom that lists all of your compilations:

1. Go to the "More" section.
2. Push the "Edit" button.
3. Drag the "Compilations" button onto the iPod toolbar.

I get it if you don't like the way they implemented it but the functionality is there.

Y'all know the O2 online store started taking orders for iPhone 3G at 8am this morning, right? Managed to get my order in at about 8.30 with no issues (though obviously that doesn't mean I'm guaranteed to get one on day one), but at 9.30 their store went offline, and still seems to be.

hmmmm:

http://thecadeals.com/product113.html

Product not found!

New Zealand has been REAMED.

Some fun controversy around the O2 orders actually. I didn't have any issues with mine at all, at 8.30am. But I'm new to O2, migrating from Orange. Apparently existing O2 customers who wanted to upgrade were having trouble getting though from, like, 8.03am. So the conspiracy theory (which kind of makes a lot of sense) is that O2 intentionally hobbled the system for their existing users, so that they could make sure their initial batch of handsets went primarily to people who were switching networks (and were therefore bringing in new contracts/money).

I get it if you don't like the way they implemented it but the functionality is there.

-- HI DERE, Thursday, July 3, 2008 7:39 AM (4 days ago) Bookmark Link

I mean a button that organizes your compilations like compilations--a function that comes standard with iTunes and every iPod ever made--as opposed to spreading them into 20 separate sections of your "Artists" lists, thus organizing your music collection in a completely retarded, counterintuitive way that no one outside of a 12-year-old girl who has never owned a single CD would find even remotely useful.

Are you intentionally being stupid here?

THE COMPILATIONS ARE ALL GROUPEED BY ALBUM UNDER THE "COMPILATIONS" SECTION WHICH YOU CAN DRAG AS A BUTTON ONTO THE MAIN BAR. THERE IS A VIEW WHERE THEY ARE NOT SPREAD OUT OVER 20 SEPARATE SECTIONS OF YOUR ARTIST LIST. WHY ARE YOU ARE CHOOSING NOT TO COMPREHEND THIS.

THAT'S RIGHT, I SAID "GROUPEED"

Are you intentionally being even stupider and not reading things that I write?

I DON'T LIKE HOW MY ARTIST LIST GETS FUCKED UP WHEN I PUT IN COMPILATIONS. I DON'T GIVE A FUCK ABOUT VIEWING COMPILATIONS. I'M NOT AN IDIOT. I KNOW YOU CAN VIEW COMPILATIONS ALL DAY LONG. I WANT AN ARTISTS LIST THAT DOESN'T LOOK LIKE A FUCKING RETARDED LAUNDRY LIST OF BULLSHIT IF I HAPPEN TO HAVE ONE COMPILATION ON MY IPHONE. I DON'T CARE THAT YOU CAN ORGANIZE IT BY ALBUM TITLE OR COMPILATION. I WANT MY ARTIST LIST TO LOOK CLEAN AND NOT DUMB

"uh"

Let me spell it out this way.

Let's say I put the Less Than Zero soundtrack on my iPod. Then I drag your button onto the bottom bar like you suggest.

When I click on COMPILATIONS: Yes, it has it in there, nice and neat. Less Than Zero soundtrack. Thank you, HI DERE, for the suggestion.

When I click on ARTISTS: The Bangles, Slayer, Public Enemy, Black Flames, etc... are ll split up INDIVIDUALLY in between the other artists. I don't like this because I am not a 12-year-old and I still think of albums as albums. I also organize my albums by artist because i'm not a fucking idiot.. So, naturally, when I click on ARTISTS, I don't want to see 7000 artists spread all over the place, boasting one song that's on a compilation

you are insane. who on earth would worry about that??

ya whiney you are being kinda crazy. if you wanna listen to the less than zero soundtrack then you click on compilations or filter by "less than zero" and you're aight.

You guys like to see a bunch of extraneous shit when you browse artists? I can't be the only person who is annoyed by this.

yeah like when i scroll artists i see two songs by Big Head but when i sort by "trill ent survival of the fittest" it falls into line and i go about my day. i don't get bothered by the two Big Head songs. that sounds crazy trivial to me.

i have a bunch of odd trax that i got off blogs or whatever; i enter 'download' as the album tag for those, so if i was looking for one of those it makes sense to browse by artist to find those even if it is just one track. works for me, anyway.

i know what whiney is talking about - i sort my itunes library by ALBUM ARTIST for this reason.

for those odd trax i put in "techno" or "psych" or "edits" for the album artist. i find that it's a really useful way of sorting. the compilations don't have an album artist, so they end up at the back, grouped by album title.

i'm not sure if the iphone and ipod can sort by album artist, though ...

I'm 100% with Whiney on this. To mitigate it I put 'Various' as the artist and append the actual artist's name to the track name in parentheses.

I am glad I have never had a commute that was ever long enough for me to consider putting this much effort into doing the whatever you guys are talking about doing

by which I mean I am glad I have never had a four hour commute

I sort my iTunes library by "Date Added"

To mitigate it I put 'Various' as the artist and append the actual artist's name to the track name in parentheses.

This causes problems with scrobbling in last.fm though.

I have never used last.fm or had a scrobble

haha HI DERE said GROUPEED

you want the browse by artist to be the list of "album artists" rather than the 'artists'. ok.

yeah, view all and sort by "album artists". for bonus points in the "album view". is nice.

if yr on a mac, this can help in general

http://dougscripts.com/itunes/

though the only thing i can find does the REVERSE of what you want (copy artist info to album artist), and for the life of me i can't imagine why you'd want that.

What does Album Artist do, exactly? I mean I know what it does in a relational database sense, but not in a music-sorting sense.

artists is used for that track's artist, but album artist is used for the artist of the album as a whole that this track comes from. so artists contains all the "X featuring Y" stuff and album artist just has "X". sort of thing

Ohhhhh. Right. Thanks. Awesome.

i agree with whiney about this too. which is why i do something everyone will laugh at me for, which is make playlists for individual albums (i also like ot be able to see all my albums at once, with the artists' name--plus having individual DLed tracks adds a lot of crap to the "albums" listing).

I edit EVERY SINGLE ARTIST, ALBUM AND TRACK because I CANNOT STAND stupid spelling mistakes or offensive use of English and I DO NOT WANT IT ANYWHERE NEAR MY IPOD.

okay ipod anal retentives' support thread, maybe

that compilation thing *is* rubbish, fuck a steve jobs

i got into using "album artist" because of listening to lots of DJ mixes. you can also use "album artist" for the DJs name and then use the "artist" field for the individual artist.

i can also use it for grouping remixes, so that all of my jacques lu cont remixes show up under album artist "jacques lu cont", and i can still put down madonna in the artist field for "hung up" and coldplay in the artist field for "talk" and not feel bad about it.

and yeah this is quickly moving into itunes OCD thread

Nice functionality but hah, like I'm going to relabel 15107 tracks.

that's like saying "no way i'm going to alphabetize 3000 records". what do you think they're for, listening to? collections are for sorting!

ID3 tags often seem like a technology waiting for a user interface.

surprised itunes doesn't have some sort of "tag cloud" feature yet ...

they could integrate it with the visualizer, so the tag cloud shimmies in time to the music

compilation thing is terrific - what's crap are the submissions to CDDB that mark "best ofs" as compilations. really compilations is "various artists"

Since this is now a giant whinge thread I HATE HATE HATE people putting the 'Alternative' genre tag on any music that isn't top 40. XTC isn't alternative ffs.

(and alternative is a pointless genre anyway)

Will our kids dig through our old mp3 collections, discovering oddball favorites? I kind of doubt it.

They will lol at yr archived weekly Last.fm charts instead.