'Cover flow 'display splits albums

When I view my albums in 'grid' format all are shown individually & correctly, but when I switch to 'cover flow' the albums split showing many covers of the same album each carrying a track from that album.
Is this a 'bug' or am I doing something wrong?

Thanks cynic and DucMike, but that wouldn't explain why the display in 'cover flow & 'grid' are different in terms of slitting albums.
BUT!! Cynic, I think you may have hit on something here and a confession I have to make.
I tag all my albums as follows:- The artist in 'Album' tag and the name of the track or album in the tag 'Album artist'!
Why? Because this way I get the name of the artist displayed above the track/ album which is the way I want to view them. It wuld seem though that produces the splitting effect I refer to.
For example The Beatles Abbey Road. In grid format, one album cover displayed. In cover flow, about a dozen covers scattered around.
I will try to re-tag this album and see if this changes the display in cover flow. Suspect it may do!
Thanks again cynic.
If anyone knows how to get the artist displayed above the album title and still enter the correct info' in the correct tags then please help!

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Send your feedback to Apple if you want Cover Flow sorted by Album

I know this is a hot topic, but I really would prefer to have Cover Flow sorted per Album rather than per Artist. I don't buy the same album for each artist so I think Cover Flow should be per Album, it just makes sense.
As there's no real way around it and if you agree send your feedback to Apple so at least they know it's something people want and maybe they'll work on a way to fix it for us.
http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipod.html

I would support an option to sort by album or artist but if it were only 1 way, i'd like it to be by artist. Assuming the fix the compilation problem, I want the coverflow to work like going to a 'record' store so that i can easily go artist by artist and each artists albums are sorted together. compilations would either be grouped together at the end or under various artists ( but each album would appear once). I know my collection way better by artist than i do by album name.

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In Cover Flow, a compilation album shows different covers for each song. How do I make it show one cover for the whole album?

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+All the tags are exactly the same+
I'll take your word for it and assume you've read this article
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1468
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http://img257.imageshack.us/img257/3052/tvprogcoverflow.png
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http://img200.imageshack.us/img200/8234/filmcoverflow.png
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The weird thing is, it worked before. I encoded all the videos previously and had them all listed and didn't encounter this problem, but I noticed I'd forgotten to decomb/detelecine the videos so I deleted everything and re-encoded it all. AFter filling the tags out and setting poster frames again I was thinking of making life easier by just pasting the same artwork for every episode, so I did, but didn't like the results so I deleted it again (I selected every video, used Get Info and pasted the artwork that way).
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You r not alone Rob! I just posted the same complain in a previous thread...
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1121028&tstart=0
yeah..i just hope this whole Coverflow problem,along with the ridiculously slow menu response is fixed b4 my 14 days return period is up, if not...this iPOD is going back and am going back to my iPod Photo!

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I have three compilation albums on my Ipod 4g that currently mess up the whole cover flow, each artist gets its own album art so I have like 20 albums with one song in it. I looked for a solution but found the same problem posted in 2007 already. Did Apple fix this in Itunes 8 or what can I do to get a nice compilation album. I already tried settings the artist name to Various (worked in Itunes, but not on my Ipod), I tried the sorting things but neither of those worked. Any known solutions so I'm able to use cover flow again?
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EDIT: Nevermind, I didn't see the "options" part in your solution. Now it works!
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