Ipod songs missing in artist folder

I have a 30gb Video Ipod with the newest software.
After updating my ipod, some songs are there in the genre and album menus, but are missing in the artist menu. The songs do have an artist and when i play the song, the artist does show up in the middle line.
Thankyou

I had the same problem! This is how I fixed it, though it was not ideal for me:
This was the scenario: Under a particular artist, Bebo Norman, I had one whole CD ("Try") with all of the track info filled out, and several other songs (live tracks, acoustic tracks, etc.) with nothing listed for their Album Name. They all showed up on iTunes, but on my iPod, when I went to Music>Aritists>Bebo Norman, it only allowed me to select the songs from Try, and none of the other tracks. This also occurred for a few other artists that were in the same situation.
This is how I fixed it: For Bebo Norman, it was easy - I imported another whole CD, complete will all of the track info. After I did this and synched with my iPod, all of the songs (both CDs as well as the extra "album-less" tracks showed up under Music>Artists>Bebo Norman.
However, for some of the other artists, this was not possible, as I only owned one CD by them. So, I selected all of the album-less tracks, and for their Album Name, I typed a space. Now, on iTunes, as well as on the iPod, all of the tracks show up, and the album-less tracks still do not "appear" to have an album name listed along with them.
I know this is not the ideal answer to your question, but it's how i went about handling it. I hope it helps!

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so, if there is no album, it will not be displayed under the artist?
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Go into your Purchase History, located in the top right of iTunes store. It's found in your account about 2/3rds of the way down. You can view what you've purchased and find it all that way.
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We'll assume for now, that all the songs and albums in your iTunes Library are correctly labelled (dangerous assumption, by the way!), and that a Compilation album is one with songs by different artists. Unfortunately, the music industry (bless their little cotton socks!) often mark an album by one artist, that has a collection of their songs from old albums, as a compilation! iTunes doesn't think it is!
The missing artists will be those who only appear on Compilation albums. For example, if you have one song by Fleetwood Mac in your Library, and it's on a multi-artist Compilation album, then Fleetwood Mac will not be listed in the Artists menu. But, if you then import a Fleetwood Mac album (or even a Fleetwood Mac single) into your Library, then not only will Fleetwood Mac appear under Artists, but the song by them in the Compilation album will also be listed.
One way to sort this out is to remove the Compilations option from the Main Menu and the Music Menu on your iPod. To do this, go to Settings/Main Menu/Compilations and press the Select (centre) button to turn off the tick. Then repeat this in the Settings/Music Menu/Compilations.
You should now find the missing artists listed in the Artists menu.
By the way, I now routinely check all albums I import from CD into my iTunes Library. Before I start the import procedure, I make sure that Compilation CD is turned on (highlight the album in the import window and right-click/Compilation CD) if it really is a multi-artist CD - and off if it's a single artist CD. Once imported, I manually change the album info to; (highlight album and select ) File/Get Info/Info/Album Artist has "Various Artists" in the box. Make sure it's the Album Artist box, not the Artist box.

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In Itunes, I have all my songs, labeled by Artist, when I click the browse, eye, icon, I can browse those artists.
When I sync my ipod and navigate to artists, it often shows a fraction of the songs that are actually by the artist. Yet I can get to the songs not shown under that artist, under songs, and while playing shows who the artist is.
For example, lets say I have 8 Ac/Dc tracks. I go to Itunes>browse>Ac/Dc. There are 8 tracks, I cmd+a them all edit there info to all have "Ac/Dc" as their artist. I sync my ipod. navigate to Music>Artist>Ac/Dc and only 3 songs appear.
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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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