Apple Music Problem(s) on Mac and iOS

For 1:

I'm not certain, but is that album perhaps marked as a compilation? See Grouping tracks into albums for general advice on managing content in the library.

For 2:

If iTunes or Music show multiple instances of an artist or an album then what generally works is to select all related tracks and use Song Info to add say a trailing X to each of the fields that the tracks should have in common:

• For an album; Album, Album Artist, and Artist (if artist is the same for all tracks) *
• For an artist; Album Artist (and Artist unless there are guest/featured artists listed which should not be changed)

Apply the change which merges things together, then remove the excess characters. Occasionally it may help to close and reopen the application between the two renaming operations. Part of a compilation should also be set consistently.

* If tracks are to be synced to a non-iOS device there should be a common Artist and/or the album should be set as a Compilation.

Use the songs view and display the fields Album, Sort Album, Album Artist, Sort Album Artist, Artist and Sort Artist side by side so you see whether or not it is appropriate to edit Artist and if sort values could be causing any further problems. See Grouping tracks into albums for more help if required.

One further tip for really stubborn duplicates. At one point I had three lots of Various Artists in the artists view of my library that wouldn't respond to the usual trailing X treatment. What I found worked was to add the trailing X to start with, but then with each group that the application wanted to keep separate start typing a value and use the autocomplete from say Var... to Various Artists. Picking from the autocomplete lists seemed to work when pasting/editing the whole value didn't.

tt2

It may help if you can show me the details of some of the albums that are giving you a problem. Presumably you're syncing media from your library to your device, so changes you make in the library should sync to it. You can follow the process for merging split albums even if they don't appear to be split, then sync again to see if that fixes the issue on the device. In some cases it may also help to remove a problem album from the device, then add it back again.

tt2

You're welcome. 🙂

tt2