Itunes not updating Artist to Ipod

Came across this problem when my b/f gave me an Ipod last week. The artist showing correctly on itunes was not showing at all on the ipod when you went into the “Artist” menu, and you could only find the artist when looking through the “Album” menu. Frustrating – and concerning that you might miss your music when flipping through artist when deciding what to listen to! In particular this was happening to my Gwen Stefani album (not sure why I am telling you that particular detail!).

I looked this up on the net and got some advice to update (in bulk) the artist name to itunes. For me this didn’t work as the artist was already correct in itunes. In the end the ever clever b/f went through menus on the ipod and realised that some albums were categorised “Compilation” for some reason (it may be because they co-wrote the album?).

ANYWAY – I highlighted the artists concerned in itunes and went to “Get info” – I then went to bottom right of info box and checked “NO” under compilation and then synced my ipod. Problem solved!

Let me know if this has happened for you and if this helps at all!

S

Waiting some more

So I have had my 2nd interview – all I have to do is wait until Monday. It’s between me and one other – but the other candidate can’t interview until Monday! That’s really difficult but at least on Monday I will know if I have a new job or not. I’m hopeful – this change feels right.

I’ve been sorting out my itunes library in the last couple of days. It reminds me of the time when I was 16 and my best friend and I hired a caravan for a week after our GSCEs. We brought all of our cds with us to go away and in order to stop ourselves from listening to the same albums again and again we made a rule that we should listen to every single album with no repeats. It was bloody hard work! I don’t think we got there in the end despite the fact it rained most of the time and we were stuck indoors! I have something like 4000 songs on my itunes and I’ll never listen to all the songs. My flatmate has got a lot of Eva Cassidy who I had never listened to – it’s really quite good.

This weekend I am making my Christmas Cake. Got mum’s recipe and I’m going for it. I like her recipe because it uses rum instead of brandy and I have lots of rum in the flat.

Gnarls Barkley

I just thought I would hop on the Gnarls Barkley bandwagon and contribute my unimportant opinion.

I really really enjoyed the album – the saddest part is it's just under 40 minutes and just as you really get into it – it ends.

But it's soulful melancholy beautiful crazy (sorry had to add that) and above all things as Frasier Season One would describe "eclectic".

The song that sticks with me the most is The Last Time.

I've been really enjoying my music of late – been sorting out "my music" and listening to new and old things.  Good stuff.