iTunes Not Displaying All Albums in Grid View

I'm getting a lesser album count in album view than I am artist view. My problem is that Compilations cannot be all the missing albums.

Artist View tells me "All Artists 4761 Albums" and directly under that it tells me Compilations 556 albums.

Album View tells me 3905 Albums - a difference of 856 - more than the Compilations.

Also - at the very bottom of the album view, I can see the compilations. What's more - still in album view, I shift+click to the end from first compilation to last and it tells me 556 of 3905 selected.

So I'm a windows users, it can see the compilations, but I'm still missing 856 albums somewhere.

What the ****?

They count each track in a compilation album as 1 album. A 10 track album with different artists on each track is counted as 10 different albums even though it is really just 1 album on cd or record.

That just makes the number worse. My 556 Compilation albums are 8537 songs. And again - they ARE visible in album view. I cannot find anything that adds up to the missing 856 album count.

Wait.

So Compilation has an album "Golden Classic Hits By Your Favorite Female Artists" (Don't judge.) and it has 8 songs by 8 different artists.

The Artist view is counting that 9 times??? Once in compilations, and once per artist down the list?

So this is not a bug as much as Apple math and human math are not the same?

If they were put in the iTunes from another location you could find one of the albums that you don't see in the iTunes directory. Go through your computer's hard drive and put it in iTunes again. That should do it.

Yeah - you were right the first time. It's counting them multiple times per artist in the compilation. If I change the Album View option to list, I get the same count and gb as Songs view. Change back to grid and the gb drops, but I can actually see and use my albums.

v12.4.1 on windows10.

Yeah. If they didn't group the albums like that i think it would be easier. If you were looking for a track by a certain artist on that compilation the idea is so you can have that track grouped with the featured artists' other individual works when you search for that artist. Browsing that album grid should include an option to organize them by album name instead of album artist name. That might make it easier.

This also solved the problem for me, making zero changes to compilations or views.

Sonic84

iTunes 12.4.1 fixed this issue for me.

Problem solved for me, too. Wonderful that Apple fixed this issue so quickly!

I'm having a slightly different problem - a couple of albums that are compilations, that I've marked as compilations, are appearing under regular albums rather than compilations.

Thanks - at least can now find the "missing" albums, but still doesn't really address issue of essentially having two lists of albums - "compilations" and "non-compilations". is there a way to show both together in an album list? (changing info for "compilation" albums to a non-compilation album presents a whole other set of problems that don't really want either.)

Thank-you so much for this! I had the same issue where the compilation albums were not displaying as compilation albums, but once I deleted the sorting album artist the album moved into compilations where it should be. I find iTunes so frustrating, it wasn't broken before, why try to fix it? (Rant over).