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Devices => Androids and other portables => Topic started by: RhinoBanga on April 09, 2008, 03:45:49 am

Title: iPod classic ... who controls the sorting?
Post by: RhinoBanga on April 09, 2008, 03:45:49 am

Hi Folks,

I have noticed with the tracks I have sync'd to my iPod that the articles are ignored in the artist list, etc.

For example "The Stranglers" and "Suede" are together, when I want "The Stranglers" to be grouped by the letter "T".


Is it MC doing this (even though I have the "Ignore Articles" option unchecked and they show correctly in the Tree) or is it the iPod doing this?

Title: Re: iPod classic ... who controls the sorting?
Post by: Doof on April 09, 2008, 09:21:23 am

I think it's the iPod itself. I noticed that (and actually liked it) when I was only using iTunes to sync.

Title: Re: iPod classic ... who controls the sorting?
Post by: pank2002 on April 10, 2008, 02:45:40 am

It is the iPod. It has been there since at least the third revision of the iPod (the heat sensitive one, with button on top).
-Rasmus

Title: Re: iPod classic ... who controls the sorting?
Post by: RhinoBanga on April 10, 2008, 03:23:27 pm

Yeah, it's definitely the iPod but I found this little tool which had an option that seemed to have sorted the problem:

http://www.yamipod.com/main/modules/home/


So I guess it's either a flag/option or it depends on how the iPod DB is written to.   Either way it's something that MC should be able to do since other tools can do it :D

Title: Re: iPod classic ... who controls the sorting?
Post by: RhinoBanga on April 10, 2008, 03:58:22 pm

I take back what I said.   It's the application writing the iPod database which controls the sorting.   I have just found another tool that allowed me to set the album names to [YYYY] - [Name] which is great as that is exactly how I have my albums stored on my fileserver.