Browsing bug when listing songs by artist

OK, I'll try and explain this as best as possible.
Given the following:
1) You have songs by an artist, from ONE album, with an album tag on the file
2) You have other songs by the SAME artist, without an album tag on the file
In this case, if you go on your iPod and browse by artist, the songs WITHOUT an album will NOT appear under that artist
Next case:
1) You have songs by an artist, from MORE THAN ONE album, with an album tag on the file
2) You have other songs by the SAME artist, without an album tag on the file
In this case, if you go on your iPod and browse by artist, the songw WITHOUT album WILL appear under "All"
So the fix is, you either need to have more than one album by the same artist in order to see the songs WITHOUT an album tag under the "Artist" view in the iPod.
In both cases, all the files appear under Songs.
Hope this makes sense, if not, relpy and I'll help if I can.
~M

Yes, there is; tag your other songs with an album name. You can look them up in iTunes, or http://www.cddb.com/ or some other site that will tell you what album they are from. Then, you will see all your songs and the albums when browsing by artist. See my reply to the other user that had this problem for more details; I seem to have forgotten to cut/paste the fix in my original post
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