Coverflow shows multiple unknown albums

Coverflow shows an unknown album for each artist instead of one for all of them. I own the first gen ipod touch if that helps.

iTunes & the iPod may have inconsistent behaviour when it comes to empty values. If you want all tracks with an unknown album value to group together as if one album then the best thing would be to select them all, set the Album field to "Unknown Album" and on the Options tab set Compilation to Yes.
See my previous post on Grouping Tracks Into Albums for more on organising your library and working around some of the quirks of iTunes/iPod.
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