Genres duplicating on iPod only - not in iTunes!

Hi All,
Can anyone tell me why Genres are repeated on my iPod? For example, I only have one 'Blues' in iTunes but my iPod shows four - all with different no. of albums/artists!
Thanks
Colin

Try this thread:- http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6062086 for an earlier discussion of this issue. There are a number of potential causes however making sure each album title is unique and appears only once seems to be the key to clearing things up. At a guess you're going to find the same album title has been used by more than one band, changing the titles, e.g. *Album, Artist*, should help. Reset & resync isn't likely to help as this is a fault/feature of the firmware.
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