Holy crap it worked!!! Brother you are a freaking genius! Yes MusicBrainz was troubling to use and did not work. So, as per your suggestion, I tried Tagscanner. I had to watch a few Youtube tutorials on how to use it but it worked perfectly. Now my Poweramp works flawlessly. Now I can easily browse through Artist/Album.
Just as you said the issue was due to the different hidden tags on each song which Poweramp read as a seperate artist. Removing those tags was the trick. I had not even known they existed!
Again THANK YOU! You dont know it but you made a huge posituve difference in my life. I use Poweramp at work to make my day go by faster and it was SO frustrating to waste time scrolling through endless songs when I simply wanted to choose an ablum.
FYI: I am sure I am not the only one who had this issue. I am sure there are others who tried Poweramp and then dismissed it for this very reason. Can you make the developer aware of this? When the issue first appeared, a number of years ago, I had to revert to an ealier version of Poweramp. Version 2.0.10-build-588-uni worked fine until just last year.
Again Thank you!