Cannot locate albums

I just bought a 4GB Silver Sansa Clip. When plugging it in, I navigated to the album folder and saw where some default albums are there. I turned on the mp3 player and went to music>albums and sure enough it was broken down per those albums, so I could go into each one so that they wouldn’t all run together…

So, I then deleted those albums and begin making my own. I have 4-5 different albums so far, 1 labeled Country, Rap, etc…I have backed up over 500 songs over the last few years on my external hardrive from cd’s i’ve got, and i throw each cd into that album on my external hard drive (so not by the artist). All I did was copy those over to the album folder (same place the ones that come from factory on) and when I go to music>albums, ALL 500 songs all run together!!! With as many songs I have, this is way annoying. I can’t figure this out to save my life and there has to be something simple i’m doing wrong. 

I read somewhere about needing to “tag” the songs, but there HAS to be an easier way to make this work as it would take me days/weeks if I had to go in and tag every song. 

Thanks for any help/advice on this issue

Message Edited by mattlenderman on 12-30-2009 11:48 AM

I have the exact same question/problem. Got a Clip for Christmas and can only view aroun 4 out of the 20 or so albums I loaded on to it. I ripped all the *genuine* CDs using jetAudio and some that were ripped show up, most do not. I’ve just wasted 2 hours trying to fix this which has left me mighty annoyed. Help would be much appreciated, cheers.