Itunes artwork view

Question

When I am browsing songs in itunes (7.0.2.16) in either of the artwork views, 99% of all the music is not grouped by album.
It only gets grouped by album if in the second of the three views, the actual album is selected in the album pane. If All (# Albumns) is chosen in the album pane the gouping is lost.
I have tried the advice found at:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304389
with no luck.
What is going on? Or is this a known bug?
The most frustrating part is that in the 3rd view, each song is getting its own album art image, creating a huge number of things to flip through.
Thanks.
  Windows XP  

Answer 1

if you click on the heading in the list for albums, the button actually has 2 sides to it. Left anf right, even though it looks like a single button.
Click on the left side to scroll through the options of 'album' > 'album by artist' > 'Album by year' . then click on the right hand side of the button to click the arrow so that they go either in order, or reverse order.
with 'album by artist' selected it should group all the songs. if it isn't then you need to selct each album that isn't behaving, and edit the entire albums worth of songs in one go, by selecting all the tracks and hitting control 'i' (guess, as it's apple 'i' on a mac).
type in something in 'album artist'. this will consolidate albums like kanye west where each track is by him + some other numpty.
or for albums like 'now thats what i call music' you need to edit the same, but check the 'compilation album' checkbox, this will then consolidate them in to a single item when viewed in coverflow.
does that work for you???
dan