After iOS 5.1.1 my ipod doesn't list artists/albums in the correct order Over the weekend I upgraded my iPod 3 to iOS 5.1.1 and jailbroke it.
Today I noticed that artists and albums are not properly sorted and it doesn't display everything. However, all the tracks are on the iPod and in iTunes I can see all the tracks/albums/artists in the correct order.

This is what it looks like:



As you can see "Everlast" is listed under "H", "Exciter" is listed under "I" and "J", etc etc.
I would rather not completely wipe it since re-encoding/uploading all the tracks will take a very long time.
It seems like I need to somehow delete/rebuild artist and album database on the ipod itself..
This is a well known issue. There is a very long discussion going on on the Apple Support pages. As far as I can see, there are two solutions which proved to fix this issue.


Switching the iPhone languages seems to work in some cases. Switch to Japanese and back to English (or your own language) and this should do the trick according to some users.
However, I would advise you to memorize the navigation very well, since it's very hard to find your way back in Japanese :)
Another thing which seems to fix this is to this "new feature". When navigating to Settings > Music, there should be an option to toggle Group by Album Artist. Toggle it off and after a resync, the problem should be fixed.
And while you're in the menu, make sure you've turned off Shuffle as well.


I can't confirm neither of these solutions since I cannot reproduce this error. So I hope it helps you out.