Why does the music app sort things into the wrong albums or artist?

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I keep coming across songs that my phone has stuck under the wrong artist, or under unknown artist, when there seems to be no reason for it. When I look under the details of the song, it has the right artist and album. It seems like the phone is just sorting it wrong and I don't know how to fix it.
 

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Welcome to Android Central! When you mention the details of the song, are you talking about the ID3 tag info? That's what most music apps will use to sort music correctly.

Otherwise, the app might also be sorting based on directory. Are all of the music files in one big directory, or did you create separate directories for artists or albums?
 

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The songs are all in the music folder, and some for some artists I've made their own folders within that but the rest of the songs are just all together. Yes, I do mean the ID3 tag info. It's never been a problem on any of my other phones.