really silly question, andoid music player (play music) not showing albums?

[Werewolf]

Ok, this is a really stupid question.

How do you get Google Play Music to group music by album/artist when you've transferred it across?

I've had an issue for ages with it never properly sorting my music, so I've spent a good few hours over the last few weeks going through it with MusicBrains Picard sorting the tags on my collection on the PC (they were a mess!).

So I've transferred the newly corrected music over to the phone but play music still isn't showing them properly, if anything it seems worse than before (when at least some were correctly grouped).
VLC see everything correctly, sorting by album/artist/genre etc so the tags seem to be working.

Does anyone have any idea what's up with the play app? It is seeing the files but completely unsorted (it appears to not be using the metadata/tags at all).
Is it just that it takes an age to index the files or something?
I've tried clearing it's cache.
I've tried reinstalling the app.
I've tried restarting the phone.

[edit]
I did transfer about 1000-2000 songs at once, but it's had a couple of hours.

 

[bloodiedathame]

You know Google are not supporting Play Music in a couple of months? Everything will be deleted and the service gone.

In a sort of answer, it lists album alphabetically but not by artist.

 

[Hawk Tuah]

I always made sure my files were correct in iTunes before allowing Google Play to run and upload them. This made sure they uploaded correctly, with the right album cover, artist etc. Once they've uploaded I don't think there's much you can do to update them.

 

[Werewolf]

Ah, when I say google play music, I mean the app on the phone, with the files held locally.

I had assumed it would sort them on the phone if they were on the phone's memory