Duplicate songs in iPod app

I’ve got a number of duplicate listings of songs in my iPhone’s iPod app when iTunes clearly has no duplicates of them. The strangest thing is the duplicate songs have modified artist IDs.

I’ve got the album The First Blooming by Kara, a K-pop group. The album is listed twice, one with KARA as its artist ID spelled out in all caps, the other with Kara (카라) in both latin and Hangul.

Because the iPod app sees the songs as by different artists, it has them listed in separate entries giving me two albums, listing the same songs. That is certainly not how it is in iTunes. There’s only one copy of the album and its songs in iTunes’ library listed as by Kara (카라). 

I unsynced the songs so the iPhone has no songs in its storage and synced them back in but they came back as they were. I don’t recall this ever happening before. I wonder, has anyone ever come across something like this?

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