Missing Duplicate Albums

I have several albums from different artists with the exact album name, ie 'Greatest Hits'. When I sort by album name only one title shows up, and all of the songs are from all of the different artists are stored there. I was told to use the compilation option in iTunes, which didn't work.

I don't see that changing the album name by appending the artist's name is a bad idea. I just looked at my music collection. For all songs from albums called +Greatest Hits+, if it's a download from the iTunes Store, the naming convention was to call the album
+(artist's name): Greatest Hits+
without the parenthesis.
Looking at the album cover, the actual album name was just +Greatest Hits+. So you would just be using the album naming convention that the iTunes Store uses.
While doing this, I noticed that I have the same situation with a few artists, so I just changed their "Greatest Hits" entries as shown above.

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Okay, I solved this issue as far as my iPod is concerned.
I decided to re-rip one of the album sets having the issue (I wanted it as lossless on my PC anyway, so it was due). Once it was ripped, I noticed that one of the tracks on the albums in the set was separated in iTunes, even though I'd made sure that the artist and album name were set using Get Info on all the tracks simultaniously. Apparently, each of the tracks on the album was marked as part of a compellation (even though only 1 of the 8 tracks had its own entry in the cover carousel). After unchecking that, it was back to one album in the carousel. Synced to the iPod and no duplicate album anymore.
I checked the other album having the issue and 3 of the tracks had the compellation checkmark checked. That album did *not* have separate entries in the carousel. After deleting those checkmarks, deleting the album from the iPod and re-syncing, it now shows up properly.
So, in my case, it seemed that errant compilation entries was the issue, which is odd anyway, because I didn't check that at all. It must have come from the album ID when they were ripped for some reason.

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