Creative Zen 8GB Problem with Recognizing Mu

For some reason, whenever I go through the artists menu to select music, when I click on an artist, it shows with no tracks available even though when I go through the (ALL MUSIC TRACKS) option the song shows up. I tried rebuilding the memory and updating album info, but the tracks still aren't appearing. Anyone have any idea why this occurs?

Make sure that all your music tracks has ID3 tags. The player requires the ID3 tags to show up on the player.

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Today I got my Creative Zen 8gb mp3-player and as far as I tested it I'm quite happy, but there is one problem that annoys me very much: I wanted to put my whole "others"-ordner on the ZEN (an ordner where I have different songs of different artists).
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And even my audio books aren't in one ordner but in a lot of different ones! I can't here them this way!
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I hope that you can help me,
yours Lilya
PS: I used the ZEN Media explorer to put the ordners on the ZEN, only in case that this is important...
And sorry for my English, I'm from Germany so my English is not perfect!

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