IPod wont show artist songs w/o album

so ive noticed that when im using my iPod ill select an artist to listen to and some of my artists have album info while others dont (mostly because theyre singles or whatever). The problem is, when i select the artist, it will only show the songs with album iformation, so i cant scroll down to find the other songs w/o an ablum that i want to listen to. The only way ive been able to look for those songs is if i hit the play button while the selector is over the artist name, but then i have to press "next track" a whole bunch to hear the one song i want to listen to at that time. Is there an update that I am missing that fixes this problem?

yeah, this irks me as well. I have like 30 some b-sides by my favorite band and i wanted to just throw them in my ipod without album name so that i could see them below the album titles in the artist part. didnt work, so i just "made up" a b-sides album and put them all in there that way

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