iPod Not displaying artist under "Artist" menu

[blahblahmoo]

I have an 80gb ipod classic that I received for Christmas that is not displaying all of the atists that I have uploaded under the "Artist" menu. All of the albums for these artists show up under the "Albums" menu, and all the songs play fine. It's just that I can't search for them under the "Artist" menu.
I have already made sure that all of the info for these files is correct, and by correct I mean I filled in the artist, album, genre, etc. on the ID3 tags. I have tried deleting them off of the ipod and resyncing them and that still doesn't work. I have tried deleting them completely off of Itunes 7 and the ipod and then reuploading them and that doesn't work. Any ideas as to how to fix this?

 

[LinuXtreme]

I'm having the same problem. I'd be surprised if this question hasn't been answered elsewhere here on MR. If I find the relevant article(s) I'll post the links here. Otherwise, I'm anxious to hear as well.

I think the problem has to do with artists in compilation albums. I've noticed that many of my "missing" artists are comprised solely of songs that I have tagged as "part of a compilation album" (so that I don't have multiple entries in CoverFlow). It seems to work OK in iTunes, but when it comes to the Classic... I hope Apple finds a fix soon so that we can have our cake (er, CoverFlow) and eat it too.

 

[Cinematographer]

If you have tagged the album as part of a compilation, the artists are meant to not appear under artist. That's why you've tagged them this way.

I have got the problem the other way around: on the iPod touch, the artists inside the compilations are still listed. And that one is the real bug. I'm sure Apple's going to fix this with the next update.

 

[TinPigeon]

Compilation Artists

If you have tagged the album as part of a compilation, the artists are meant to not appear under artist. That's why you've tagged them this way

I'm not sure I agree that this is how it's supposed to work. Why would it be desirable to obfuscate the artist of a track just because it's part of a compilation? I experience this "bug" on my 80gb Classic, too. It "bugs" me because when browsing for a song, perhaps I remember the name of the artist and not the name of the compilation they may be on.

I've tried many different combinations of checking Compilations, and making the Album Artist = "Various Artists" to no avail.