Coverflow view bug

In coverflow view, when you encounter a song without an entry in the album field,
it shows as Unknown Album. Fine, but then when you flip it over, it includes EVERY song with no album entry.
I don't think this is intentional.....

nycflyer wrote:
In coverflow view, when you encounter a song without an entry in the album field,
it shows as Unknown Album. Fine, but then when you flip it over, it includes EVERY song with no album entry.
I don't think this is intentional.....
It's not a fault, it's a feature!
Well, I don't really subscribe to that view, but your issue is a subset of a bigger design flaw, namely the failure to fully implement the Album Artist field and identify individual albums (within iTunes & iPod) by unique combinations of Album Title & Album Artist. If you look closely you'll probably find you've a "Greatest Hits" album in coverflow. Flip it over to find the tracks and it will have every track from every Greatest Hits album you have. Until Apple take this flaw on board and fixes it the only thing you can do is trawl through the libray giving each album a distinct title. E.g. "Artist, Greatest Hits" or "Greatest Hits (Artist)". FYI iTunes will also ignore a leading "The " when comparing names so "The Album" matches with "Album". From this you can see that all the untitled albums will be treated as one in CoverFlow. Simplest solution is probably to go for "Untitled #1", "Untiled #2" etc. Another annoyance related to this is that compilation albums are usually credited to the artist of the first track rather than whatever value you put in the album artist field.
Daft question, but don't any of Apple's programmers use thir own product? This fault/feature is so obvious & irritating I can't see why it is ignored.
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