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I have a couple songs that will play on the iPod but can't be accessed through their artists. The only way I can access them is under a playlist. For example, I have 4 songs by Fat Boy Slim, 3 of which coming from unknown albums. When I select Fat Boy Slim under the artist menu, it goes straight to the album that the fourth song is under. The songs from unknown albums have to be accessed through the Top Rated playlist. If I select almost any other artist, it will lead me to another menu where I can choose "all" or any of the albums of that artist. The same applies to another artist where ten songs are from one album and one song is from an unknown album; the song with an unknown album will not appear under its artist. The Ipod will just go straight to the album that the ten songs are from. Does anyone else have this problem? How can I fix it? By the way, I have the 30 gig video iPod.

This may be happening because there is no album name for those songs. Since the song with an album title does show up, try naming the albums for the other three songs. They'll probably show up.

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