http://cockhead.port5.com/untitled.GIF

that's how it's displayed for me.
and for a friend who has the same exact songs.....

http://cockhead.port5.com/friend.GIF

i want mine to look like his.
anyone know what to change? if you do, i'd be grateful.

oh yah we have the same tile formatting.

Do you have the same song files? If yes, then maybe you have old info about songs stored in database? Select all files, right click and then from database menu choose reload info from file.

no that didnt work
yah, we have the same files. i can even see the artist name browsing in windows.

http://cockhead.port5.com/windows.GIF

as you can see, ALL the artist names are there.
thanks for helping though.

hmm... try in preferences ->database -> nuke database and then load your tracks again and check if it works. Try also to delete your playlist files (*.fpl)

nope, didnt work

bleh, i'm gonna go sleep. thanks for helping again

Could you post your playlist config strings?

Just download ID3v2 support here and use "reload info from files"

retag your files with apeV2 tags
get a proper tagger from here: www.ca5e.tk

holy crap, thanks anza it worked!
and thank you guys for helping out too