Itunes music libary view

When I want to view my itune library with the option of viewing the album artwork using the "cover flow view" option (from my computer, not the ipod), the different artist from the same album appear as if I have that album for each artist. Example "American Graffiti" has about twenty five artists, so now it looks as though I have twenty five American graffiti albums in my file. How can I consolidate the album to look like one album? PS I don't want to re-name all the artist the same name ie. "various artists" I know that works, but there must be a better way. Thanks

Hi, mardawg.
The answer may be as easy as clicking on the Album column heading in your iTunes Library display to sort your songs by Album.
If that doesn't resolve matters, Ctrl-click all the tracks from the American Graffiti soundtrack > right-click > Get Info > confirm that you want to edit information for multiple items > change the entry for Compilation from No to Yes.
And while you're there, enter something along the lines of Original Soundtrack in the Album Artist field. (Note that this won't affect the different Artists that are listed for the individual tracks.)
Let us know if you find any combination of joy and/or satisfaction.

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