Sort Coverflow by Album not Artist

is their anyway to Sort Coverflow on the iPod Classic by Album and not Artist

MBP C2D 17, Mac OS X (10.4.10), 200GBHDD

Posted on Sep 7, 2007 9:27 PM

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Feb 9, 2008 5:56 AM in response to SithLordDarth

Its so frustrating! Example: Alicia Keys - Diary of. Because there are some other artists on the album (i.e. featuring XYZ), coverflow groups by artist so it appears three times. The only alternate is to denote the album as a compilation, which then puts it at the end of the selection regardless of whether you have the "Group Compilations" checkbox ticked in setup and puts the artist as "Various Artists" regardless of whether there is an entry on itunes under album artist or not. There is a "Gapless Album" setting, which you would have thought would have enabled gapless albums to be shown together in coverflow, but it doesn't appear to actually do anything. I'm just going to end up turning coverflow off, because it doesn't work the way it ought to!
APPLE - CHANGE THIS

Feb 9, 2008 6:27 AM in response to PDJack

Two workarounds for the guest artist behaviour. One is to put all guest artist info. in the track title, e.g. *Song (Feat. Guest)* and change the Artist on each track to the *Album Artist*. The other is to set *Sort Artist* to *Album Artist* whenever Artist != *Album Artist*. Personnaly I prefer the second way, but either way involves manually adjusting indivdual tags or using clever rules in an external tag editor.

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