IPod versus iTunes, organizing music

I spent 2 hours last night organizing my music that had featuring artists so it would show up under the album it belongs to, versus being its own separate "album"... so I assumed that if iTunes was perfectly organized and the music is listed as it should be, that it would translate to my iPod... NOPE! How is that possible? How do you get your albums, no matter how many contributing artists, in one place on your iPod, when it's already like that in iTunes?
I have no clue what to do, and it is soooo frustrating!

If this is a Compilation album, one with varying artists in the Artist field for different songs on the same album, you need to do the following:
1- Select all songs on the album and go to Get Info.
2- Enter the same +Album Artist+ for each song. If there is no common artist among the songs, use something like "Various Artists".
3- Go to the Options tab and change "Part of a Compilation" to Yes.
4- Make sure that the total number of disks is the same for all songs.
5- Re-sync your iPod.
Also, in iTunes you can sort your library as "+Album by Artist+", which will group compilations together according to what you've used for +Album Artist+.

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