A single album cover is going on multiple albums at random.

This problem has been going on for quite a while on and off, and ready to delete that album. I downloaded Volbeat Beyond Heaven/Above **** and it keeps going to different albums. Linkin Park Hunting Party, Reel Big Fish Turn off the radio and Soundgarden Badmotorfinger just to name a few TODAY. I've tried deleting the Volbeat Album cover and syncing my iPod to reset the Album covers, I've tried deleting The non-Volbeat albums covers to rest them. and it hasn't worked. I should mention that they had the right album covers for about a half hour (not including Soundgarden). Another thing I forgot to mention is that when turn my iPod to the side, the album covers are correct, like they are on my laptop. Just my iPod doesn't have the correct cover.

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I read all the other post and still having probs with multiple album cover for one CD? Here is a pic of what I am experiencing.
http://homepage.mac.com/gwilchek/PhotoAlbum137.html
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I read all the other post and still having probs with
multiple album cover for one CD? Here is a pic of
what I am experiencing.
http://homepage.mac.com/gwilchek/PhotoAlbum137.html
Thanks
Albums that feature a mixture of artists cause the sorting/grouping in iTunes to split an album even if it is marked as a compilation. A particularly good example of such an Album is Queen's Greatest Hits III which features 'guest' artists like David Bowie. This album would still be considered to be a Queen album but the artist of some tracks would not be Queen.
Microsoft of all people, came up with a solution for this which was to add an additional meta tag for albums called "Album Artist" as opposed to the normal "Artist" tag (which is used to indicate the Artist of a particular track).
Apple after receiving requests from people (including myself) added support for this Album Artist tag in iTunes 7 but unfortunately only did half the job. With iTunes 7 you can now see and edit this tag but you cannot browse or sort by this tag. Therefore when you browse or sort by Artist, iTunes is using the "Artist" tag and not the "Album Artist" tag and hence your tracks are not sorted as you expected and albums like Queen's Greatest Hits III still get split up.
The ONLY way to get iTunes to display albums properly grouped is to sort by the Album name, if you do this then Cover Flow will only display each album once (as you would expect).
Windows Media Player (unlike iTunes) does let you browse by Album Artist.
Note: If you have more than one Album with the same name e.g. "Great Hits" things may once again get interesting, I work around that by adding a space character at the end of the name so "Great Hits" and "Great Hits " are considered different.

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