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Cover Flow bug in iPhone - No distinction between albums of same name but different artist

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RapidSnail

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I have two albums of the same name, but performed by two different artists: Greatest Hits by Creed and Greatest Hits by Lenny Kravitz. In my iTunes library, the album art shows properly, however on my iPhone, the album art only shows for the Creed album. When I tap it to view the track listing, Lenny Kravitz shows up with Creed. It's not a critical flaw, but it is an annoyance.

I tried to fix it by removing the albums from the library and then syncing and re-adding them and then syncing again. I also populated the "Album Artist" field with the respective artists, instead of just "Artist." I think that the iPhone library may see the two artists belonging to a various artists album, and therefore groups them together. However, I do not have this problem in iTunes, which puzzles me.

Edit: Hopefully this is an adequate solution until Apple fixes the discrepancy:

Originally posted by: RapidSnail
Apparently others have had the same exact problem with "Greatest Hits" albums. I always recognized that I could append the album with other characters to correct the issue, but I'm picky about that stuff. So, the best temporary solution that I could think of was to append a space after the identically named album. After syncing, Cover Flow responds correctly! 🙂

Note: You will have to append more than one space if you have more than two albums with similar names.

For instance, I have three Greatest Hits albums: Creed, Kravitz, and Queen. Properly appended, it should look like this (in whatever order you decide):

Greatest Hits
Greatest Hits_
Greatest Hits__
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Your biggest problem is that you have a Greatest Hits by Creed album. Once you've dealt with that deeply embarrassing oversight, we can deal with the technical issue.

Hmm. I'm surprised that filling out the "album artist" field didn't solve the issue.
 
Ensure that the disk information (1 of 1) and the track information for each is filled out. Try to give the iPhone as many hints as possible that they are different albums? I dunno.
 
I've tagged everything properly with Mp3tag. I populate artist, album, track, genre, year, and title. I just don't understand why iTunes sees the difference but the iPhone doesn't. Besides, this used to not be a problem. The Kravitz album showed by itself, if I recall correctly.

What's wrong with Creed?
 
Apparently others have had the same exact problem with "Greatest Hits" albums. I always recognized that I could append the album with other characters to correct the issue, but I'm picky about that stuff. So, the best temporary solution that I could think of was to append a space after the identically named album. After syncing, Cover Flow responds correctly! 🙂

Note: You will have to append more than one space if you have more than two albums with similar names.

For instance, I have three Greatest Hits albums: Creed, Kravitz, and Queen. Properly appended, it should look like this (in whatever order you decide):

Greatest Hits
Greatest Hits_
Greatest Hits__
 
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