IPod Classic Cover Flow Issues

Hi Everyone.
Just got home with my new iPod. Synced it all up and i've noticed in the actual coverflow view on the iPod it's really messy. Loads of covers over and over again. They are mainly from the compilations. I've checked and i've put album artist to something uniform on those albums. But it hasn't helped at all. Any help would be much appreciated.
Thank you,
John

I posted this in another thread. It might solve your problem:
+I was able to sort coverflow by album by changing the artist names to the album name.+
+For example, my Rhino 70's box set has 7 discs and 150+ artists. It showed up on coverflow as 150+ album covers. A real drag.+
+I highlighted all of the songs in the set and opened the dialog box to change multiple song entries. From there I renamed the artist to "Rhino 70's Box Set", and cleared the multiple disc box. When I clicked OK I ended up with one album cover for the whole set. I entertained the idea of adding the artist names to each individual song so they would show up on playback, but that seemed way too anal for me+
+BTW, I did the same single disc designation for all of my box sets, consolidating all of the discs under one cover. Works for me.+
jt

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