Album view on iPhone completely messed ...

Hi,

I'm using the iPhone 3GS, iTunes 9 on Win7.

The album view of the iPod in the iPhone is worse than it was a time before (I dont know which update of what caused the problem).

The Problem is, that COMPILATIONS in the album view are split up into many "albums", each for one track of the compilation. So, the album view gets very confusing. Nevertheless, the iPhone KNOWS, WHICH SONGS BELONG TO THE ALBUM (but it doesnt group them together).

Example:
Two albums:
"Muse" (tag artist) - "Absolution" (tag album) - 20 songs from Muse (tags title)
"CafeDelMar Vol 15" (Album) - 20 tracks from 20 different artists (tags artist and title)
Both albums have also covers (one each).

In the Album view (both Listed and Coverflow), the Muse album works fine: one album, shown with the Absolution cover. I click on it and I get all 20 songs.

But the CafeDelMar album is not fine. I get 20 "albums" in the album view, each named with "CafeDelMar Vol 15", each with the CafeDelMar cover, but each differs by the artist of the corresponding track.
Confusing is: if I click on such a "pseudo-album", I get a list of all tracks that belong to the CafeDelMar album. So, the iPhone knows, which songs belong to CafeDelMar, but in the album view, it splits them up. WHY????????

Because iTunes and iPhone use the Album and Artist - tags to define an album.
If album and artist is the same for each song (like Muse) - it works.
If album is the same but the artist differs for each song, the iPhone creates different pseudo-albums.
That's a bug, since when I click on such a pseudo-album, I get all songs that belong only to the album-tag. So, the iPhone should only consider the album-tag for the album view (that's why it's called album view).

Note, the "compilation"-tag can be set on or off, the album view of the iPhone has the same problem. Its only a difference for the "compilation" view. I tried it out.

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