Cover flow anomalies - turingtest2 are you watching?

Hi,
I have been following several threads about cover flow (turingtest2 did a very good job of explaining things), but still can't seem to get my head around it.
Is it possible, in cover flow on the ipod, to only display a compilation album cover once. At the moment (amongst many other compilations) I have "Party in the park 2002" showing 13 times - once for each individual artist. I have tried several various sorts in the "Get Info, Sort tab" but all to no avail!
Appreciate any help
regards

Have you got iTunes set up to group compilations? Open the iTunes menu item *Edit > Preferences* and on the General tab check *Group compilations when browsing*. Here are the steps I would take to organise the album. The album you mentioned is a 2 disc set. Make sure that all the tracks of disc 1 are set as *Disc 1 of 2* and disc 2 set to *Disc 2 of 2*. Find a track with artwork, right-click (option-click) on the artwork panel and select Copy. Select all the tracks on the album and *Get info*. Right-click (option-click) on the artwork panel and select Paste, explicitly change the value of Compilation to Yes, set the Album Artist to *Various Artists* and set the album title to *Party In The Park 2002*. It shouldn't matter for sorting in cover flow but you probably want to have the same year & genre across the album. The *Sort album* & *Sort album artist* fields should be empty for all tracks across this album.
Another habit I have (not necessary but looks nicer in iTunes) is to renumber the tracks. Starting with the last track (I do it from this end to avoid ever having two tracks with the same number) I change it's track number to the total no. of tracks across all the discs. I then click the Previous button with the mouse, type in the previous track no. and repeat. My PC runs fairly slowly but I can type & click for 10 tracks and then let the display catch up. When I get to disc 1, I select all the tracks and set the *No. of tracks* to the total no.
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