Albums appearing twice on iPod

Hello.. I recently purchased the iPod Touch 32GB. I put my iTunes library onto the new ipod and I noticed that a few of the albums were put on to the ipod twice. I tried to delete them from the ipod and then put them back on but they still appeared twice. I have a lot of B-Side albums from different artists and these B-sides seem to be the albums that appear twice. I checked all of the tags in itunes and they're all fine. Before I got the ipod touch I had an ipod classic and I didn't have this problem with the duplicate albums. If anyone has any ideas, I'd really appreciate it.
Thanks
Morgan

This behaviour can occur wherever an artist also has tracks with one or more guests and you have more than one album by the principal artist. See my post *Yet more menu madness* http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5899476&#5899476
This is a feature of the way the iPod currently (up to & inc. v1.0.3 on Classic & Video) enumerates the artists & albums in the various views, often referencing the artist field when album artist would be more logical. Within one album it seems to cope with listing each combination of artists just once. Give it a new album & it starts over. Likewise keep the album title constant and you can change as many artists/album artists as you like and iPod still sees it as one album... check out *Greatest Hits*, chances are you've more than one album's worth of tracks listed there.
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*Tried that, there are STILL too many covers!*
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*One artist, many names*
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DISCLAIMER:
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I prefer to use the dots instead of just removing all the "Featurings and similar" since I can still see it normally if I play the track.
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I would love for Apple to solve this issue and I hope this helps.
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Thanks!

sometimes the official title of a release does include the Feat. Guest info.
Yes, but only in some (or many) cases. There seems to be no consistency here, as if Apple were paying no attention about where to put "feat. guest". And I guess most of the data in CDDB (Gracenote) still have "feat. guest" in Artist (correctly, in my opinion).
I quite agree that your workaround is the best workaround. I'm just too self-willed (obstinate?, I don't know the correct English) and don't want to pollute my Library with "wrong" data. Most of the problems would simply be solved if, just if Apple make iPods sort/group artists as iTunes do. Sorry but this is how I feel. I guess you can't help people like me. Thank you for your patience.
Anyway, we need a clear document from Apple describing what are the intended uses of various tags, and iTunes/iPods should obey this document. It seems for me that each Apple engineer is doing just what (s)he wants to do, without any guidelines.

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