Ipod menu playback problem

Certain artists on my ipod have multiple albums. When I browse the songs it usually gives me an option to play all songs for example,
I choose the Artist,
Then my ipod screen displays this:
Artist
All>
album 1>
album 2>
My problem is that when I choose an artist with one album on my ipod and they have random songs that are not on albums it does not give me the "All>" option and just plays whatever is on the album. What can I do in this situation?

This is a pretty common glitch (or maybe just a mishap on Apple's part), but the only fix is to add an album name to all the nulls.

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