Coverflow sort order on iPod

Not sure I understand your question fully, posting some screenshots on imageshack might help.

First tell us how you are syncing your iPod - auto or manually?
What type iPod, esp if it's a shuffle - those work quite differently than other models.

The iPod appears to groups albums by looking at the Artist field rather than Album Artist. As I recall the first couple of revisions of iTunes 7 did this as well but it got fixed pretty quickly. Nothing has so far changed with the iPod Classic in this respect. It causes problems in Cover Flow and when selecting albums from the Artist menu. In general I've noticed that for Cover Flow if you only have one album by an artist then tracks on the album that feature guests may not cause multiple covers provided the tag lists the principal artist before the guests. If you have two or more albums & guests are involved then multiple covers for the same album seems inevitable. Workarounds are moving the guest info. into the track title or changing the Sort Artist to Album Artist when there are guests on a track. I prefer this second method even though it can create duplicate listings in the artist menu as a side effect - hopefully it will be easier to undo should they get around to fixing the firmware to group on album artist.

The other Cover Flow gotcha is that all tracks with the same album title get returned (irespective of artist) when you select an album with a given title - this is most obvious with Greatest Hits albums where you will see all the tracks from all the Greatest Hits albums listed together when you select any one of them. Workarounds are to rename affected albums in some fashion, e.g. *Album - Album Artist* , change the Sort Album value for each one or add differing numbers of trailing spaces to different albums

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