Unknown Album appearing in Album view

Hi,
Minor frustration - in the 'Albums' view on my iPhone, a couple of 'Unknown Albums' appear - these are songs that have been stripped of their Album and Sort Album information, but which are still showing up under 'Albums'. They were purchased from the iTunes store - but then several other songs I've bought there don't appear in the Album view after I've removed Album information (I always do that for any songs that aren't part of a complete album).
Any help with fixing this is much appreciated, thanks.

I haven't actually done this myself because id have too sift through 10000 tracks, but i would think that if you went through your whole library and selected all the songs that aren't part of a complete album and just set all their album infos to the same name, your album view wouldn't have any unknown albums in it. Just one massive album will all the songs that aren't part of a complete album in it. Should make your album view look nice and tidy. Let me know if it works

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I used to have this problem.
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