Multiple of same artist in artist view

i just got a ipod nano 4th generation and i noticed it will display the same artist twice on the artist menu. my old one [2nd gen] did this too. it's kind of annoying because all the songs by an artist are then split in to more than one group and i must choose which artist listing to get to the song i want rather than just having them all in one group. there are no spelling errors in ther listings. So what i'm wondering is what causes this and is there a way to fix it?
thanks

i went through my library and retyped all of the artists that repeated, and then restored the ipod and reloaded the songs. it helped some, but there are still repeats. my only guess would be the source of the files. i got a lot of my from my friends [from external hard drives etc] and the others i got off cd, the arists that repeat seem to be the ones with multiple sources but i dont know a fix for that.

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Sounds like there might be blanks in the artist name.
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hi. I'm new to ipod an can't say i'm enjoying this very "controlled" experiance.
Can someone please tell me why I have multiple entries on my pod? The same artists somtimes with the same songs othertimes not. It's a **** mess. It's also downloaded the artwork in 3's as well and split up my albums. All the id tags are right too. 4 days an ipod owner and already I'm regretting it. Mind you I was warned all my pals told me to stay well away.
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Hmm...same here.
I had posted my question under the itunes post about a week ago and heard nothing back.
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Hmm...same here.
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In iTunes, I downloaded a song not through the iTunes store, then added the .mp3 file to iTunes. When I enter in the artist information for sorting, it lists that artist separate from the same artist I've added in the past.
I am 100% positive that the sorting fields are exactly the same, no extra spaces anywhere or incorrect spelling. Is there any reason that this would be happening if the sorting fields are exactly the same?
I also tried consolidating the files, and iTunes put the new song and the previous songs into the same Artist folder, but still separates them in iTunes.
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My problem isn't critical, but it is really annoying. My third generation iPad is showing incorrect album counts for artists under artist view in the Apple music app.
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NONE of these options have worked. They all result in incorrect album counts.
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This is some sort of issue with iOS6. There are several threads (and theories) as to why this is happening. But the bottom line is, Apple needs to correct the problem.
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Hi,
a couple of days ago I decided I wanted all of my songs to have an album art. Before I didn't actually care, but since I discovered the view mode with the album arts at the top (the fourth one) I began searching for the right arts, since I like it this way.
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Dear,
I have not have this problem in the previous version of iTune. As soon as i upgraded it to iTunes 11, it happens.
The problem in here is all my songs, tracks are still here, i can see all of them in "songs view". However, when i change the view to Album View, and click into the Album artwork, there is no track there. When i double click into the Album Artwork, the first song of the album will be played normally.
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I have absolutely no idea what is going on here and obviously i am not satisfy with this new version.
Is there any way for me to fix this problem? Please help!
Otherwise i will need to use other software for music playing.
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