Duplicate songs under 'Artists' category

I do not know how this happened with my iPod, but after one of the last times I synced my iPod, some songs under the artist tab were duplicated. I have tried to fix the issue in many different ways.
I went to the songs and manually changed the information in the properties of each song so the artists are exactly the same, ie, no deviate spellings, and also erased the album title so that all of the songs would be listed under unknown album. Also, in the iPod window, I have cleared the album title and made sure that the artists' were all spelled correctly.
My iPod shows that songs are repeated under 'unknown album' and the correct album that the song originates from.
THis is getting really annoying because my OCD is really bad with my iPod and I want it to look all nice and clean and perfect, but with this all happening, it looks like a huge jumbled mess.
Is there some secret solution that I just have yet to discover that will fix this??? Please help!!!

As far as I see it if you want everything organised nicely then each track should have at minimum a name, artist, album title and album artwork. See my previous post on Grouping Tracks Into Albums for tips on preventing multiple covers, multiple listings for the same artist etc.
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It could be that you have inadvertently imported these CDs into iTunes as part of a compilation. If so, the artists won't show in the artists menu on the iPod.
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They need album names.
See: Some songs don't don't show under artist on my iPod.
From what I understand, once you add a second album name for that artist even for a single song, ALL the rest of the songs should now show up under that artist, even those without album names.
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Referring to this website: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302773
i have a question:
I am experiencing the same problem as described on that page. Only thing is, it is much more severe for me. I'm guessing that over 100 of my 900 songs wont show under artists.
Yet, most of my songs do not have an album name.
First question, why do only a part of those songs that don't have an album name not show under artists on my iPod?
Secondly, is there no easier way to get this problem fixed than giving the songs an album name? Firstly, it's impossible for me to know what songs do show and which are not shown under artists on my iPod, i only know a few. It's not like im going to go through all 900 songs to find this out. Secondly, i do not know the correct album name for each song. If i fix an album name, i want it to be correct and not made up in my head. Thirdly, it takes ages and ages to name albums for all songs that do not have album names.
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"First question, why do only a part of those songs that don't have an album name not show under artists on my iPod?"
It's a bug as far as I know, possibly in the future some update or change to iTunes and/or the iPod software will rectify it.
"Secondly, is there no easier way to get this problem fixed than giving the songs an album name"
At the moment, no there's not.
"it takes ages and ages to name albums for all songs that do not have album names"
Actually you can do it quite quickly. Sort your library by Album to bring all the blanks together. Click on the first song in the list and holding down the Shift key click on the last. This will highlight all in between . Right click on the list and chose Get Info, say yes when you are asked if you want to update multiple items. Put None or Unknown or any title of your choice in the album field and click OK. This should sort the problem out for you.
There's also one other thing that that contributes to songs not appearing under Artist on the iPod and that is if the song is marked as part of a compilation.
If the tracks are ticked in the Get Info>Info tab as part of a compilation, they will not appear under Artist on the iPod. Highlight a song in iTunes that you know is not appearing correctly on your iPod. Right click on it and choose Get Info and click the Info tab (alternatively choose Get Info from the File menu), if "Part of a Compilation" is marked untick it and afterwards update your iPod, you should find it now appears as normal. Compilations are stored in a separate folder in iTunes so the songs don't appear inside the normal Artist>Album folder which may be why this happens.

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I asked this question here:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/15312099#15312099
It was suggested I re-post in this forum, seeing as the problem may be specific to the Touch.
So, I have lots of "compilation" albums that include songs by various artists (for example, Pitchfork's top 500 singles of the decade). I usually select my music by "Artist," and now my ipod is super cluttered, because now I have hundreds and hundreds of artists listed, many of which I only have one or two songs by from this compilation.
One solution: simply delete the artist information for these large compilations, and then the songs from the compilations will no longer show up under "Artists." Problem is, I would like to know who the artists are when I play the compilation (I simply don't want to have the artists listed under "Artists")
Another solution: I could manually delete the artist info, but paste that info on to the song name. For example, a track that once looked like:
Artist: Nirvana
Title: Smells Like Teen Spirit
Album: Best of the '90s
After my editing, would look like:
Artist: [blank]
Title: Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
Album: Best of the '90s
This would solve my problem...but it would literally take hours to do for each and every individual song. Not practical.
Does any one have any other suggestions? It seems like there would be a way to just check a box for what info you want to be listed (ie, I could un-check "Artist," and then the song would no longer be listed by Artist, even though the Artist information would still be retained for reference). Does this option exist?
In the prior thread, someone suggested I mark it as a "compilation" in iTunes. But that did not prevent the individual artists from being listed under "Artists." Someone suggested that I may need to turn "Compilation" to "On" on my iPod. But that does not seem to be an option on the Touch.
Suggestions?
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Hi,
I'm going to try and explain this the best way I can,
On my Ipod (30GB), some songs do not appear under the artist.
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I have two songs by Christina Aguilera, A is from the album "Stripped" and the other one (B) I haven't listed any album name (therefore it is Blank). So on my ipod when I go into:
[ Music -> Artist -> Christina Aguilera -> All ]
only song A is shown.
But if I go into [Music -> Songs ] I can find A and B...
So you see my problem,
If you have any idea, please answer,
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"the other one (B) I haven't listed any album name (therefore it is Blank)."
There is the problem.
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Okay. so i recently bought a Black Sabbath "Paranoid" that was covered by Avenged Sevenfold. I found the song in the "Various Artists" section of the artist category. Is there anyway i can put that song in Avenged Sevenfold's list of songs and album's in the "Artist" category? Btw, i am on a Windows 8 laptop, so idk if that'll be diferent or not. Thanks for your help!!

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The article below may be able to help you with this.
Click on the link to see more details and screenshots.
iTunes 11 for Windows: Edit song and CD information
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH12360
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To check, highlight the tracks on one of the offending artists CDs in iTunes, right click and select "get info". This brings up a multiple song info window, and from there you can check if you have 'yes' in the box marked "part of a compilation".
If you have, select 'no' instead and click 'ok'. Do this with any CD that has this issue. This will alter the info in iTunes, and you should then connect your iPod and synchronize the changes.
The problem arises because the information contained on the Gracenote CD Data Base (where iTunes gets all it's album/artist/track info from), is sometimes incorrect. It can show CDs as compilations when in fact they are not.
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It could be that you have inadvertently imported these CDs into iTunes as part of a compilation. If so, the artists won't show in the artists menu on the iPod.
To check, highlight the tracks on one of the offending artists CDs in iTunes, right click and select "get info". This brings up a multiple song info window, and from there you can check if you have 'yes' in the box marked "part of a compilation".
If you have, select 'no' instead and click 'ok'. Do this with any CD that has this issue. This will alter the info in iTunes, and you should then connect your iPod and synchronize the changes.
The problem arises because the information contained on the Gracenote CD Data Base (where iTunes gets all it's album/artist/track info from), is sometimes incorrect. It can show CDs as compilations when in fact they are not.
You should also check that the songs have album name info in their ID tags.
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