Hey - I'm just wondering if anyone out there has the same issues as I do. I have a couple different aftermarket radios that accept lightning Apple devices, and the two devices I have at this time are the Nano 7th gen and i iPhone 6s.
I have a meticulously arranged music library. I have a single library I sync to both of these devices. in the case of many albums, I use the album artist field to properly group a release when individual tracks have variation.
Notably, let's take the album 'Forever' by Alesso: Out of 14 tracks, six are credited to 'Alesso', the other eight have 'Feat.' or 'Vs.' designations in the artist field, like 'Alesso Feat. Ryan Tedder'. All 14 tracks have an 'album artist' of 'Alesso'.
* iTunes groups these perfectly.
* iPhone 6s has the album 'Forever' appear under the artist Alesso, Alesso Feat. Ryan Tedder (and others) do not appear in the artist list (iOS 9, prior to 8.3 or so I had to manually select it to work this way, under 9 it appears to be forced, the option is gone).
iPod Nano 7th gen is the same - the album 'Forever' appears under the artist Alesso, Alesso Feat. Ryan Tedder (and others) do not appear in the list. No settings for this, it just seems to work this way and always has.
All of this is fine.
When I plug the 7th gen Nano into a car stereo, the 'artist' list on the car shows only 'Alesso' and the album is under his name with 14 tracks.
This is also fine.
when I plug the iPhone 6s into the same car stereo, with the same content synced off the same iTunes library, 'Alesso' and 'Alesso Vs. Ryan Tedder' appear as separate artists and the album is split. If I want to listen to the full album, I must select it from the album list. If I select 'Alesso' from the artist list and then the album Forever, only six tracks are shown.
This bothers me like crazy. I'm using the same tags, the same files, and ultimately, every device works locally on screen. I can't figure out why the iPhone gives the 'Artist' fields to the radio to build an artist list, and the iPod Nano 7th gives the 'Album Artist' list to the radio to build the list. This is common across Pioneer and Kenwood devices that I know of, so I'm attributing it to the iPhone vs. the iPod, but no settings exist to change it.
Anyone else managed to figure out why?
I have a meticulously arranged music library. I have a single library I sync to both of these devices. in the case of many albums, I use the album artist field to properly group a release when individual tracks have variation.
Notably, let's take the album 'Forever' by Alesso: Out of 14 tracks, six are credited to 'Alesso', the other eight have 'Feat.' or 'Vs.' designations in the artist field, like 'Alesso Feat. Ryan Tedder'. All 14 tracks have an 'album artist' of 'Alesso'.
* iTunes groups these perfectly.
* iPhone 6s has the album 'Forever' appear under the artist Alesso, Alesso Feat. Ryan Tedder (and others) do not appear in the artist list (iOS 9, prior to 8.3 or so I had to manually select it to work this way, under 9 it appears to be forced, the option is gone).
iPod Nano 7th gen is the same - the album 'Forever' appears under the artist Alesso, Alesso Feat. Ryan Tedder (and others) do not appear in the list. No settings for this, it just seems to work this way and always has.
All of this is fine.
When I plug the 7th gen Nano into a car stereo, the 'artist' list on the car shows only 'Alesso' and the album is under his name with 14 tracks.
This is also fine.
when I plug the iPhone 6s into the same car stereo, with the same content synced off the same iTunes library, 'Alesso' and 'Alesso Vs. Ryan Tedder' appear as separate artists and the album is split. If I want to listen to the full album, I must select it from the album list. If I select 'Alesso' from the artist list and then the album Forever, only six tracks are shown.
This bothers me like crazy. I'm using the same tags, the same files, and ultimately, every device works locally on screen. I can't figure out why the iPhone gives the 'Artist' fields to the radio to build an artist list, and the iPod Nano 7th gives the 'Album Artist' list to the radio to build the list. This is common across Pioneer and Kenwood devices that I know of, so I'm attributing it to the iPhone vs. the iPod, but no settings exist to change it.
Anyone else managed to figure out why?