OK.. new development. I think the problem is only from "modules" I put on the front page" for example, if I put "featured artists" and "random albums" module on the front page, the URLs will have the "component/muscol/" part on the URL.. all the rest of the modules on the sidebar for example, will have the correct format.

any ideas why?

if u allow me to say something, i think you should try to use sh404sef to edit and modify any Item Id and url you want ,

Best Regards

it has an "alias" is called "home" I've been using "muscol" for a long time ( since joomla 1.5 ) and I always had this problem.. I know it must be something I'm doing, but how do other people fix this issue when they have a website with "muscol" as the default menu.

muscol is on the "home" menu.

i don't understand.. why you put the "default" for the home page if the muscol is not on the home..?

Hi Germinal, thanks for your quick response... should this work even if I'm setting up muscol to be the "home" menu? I don't have anything else on the site, so I'm making muscol the front page component on the site..

update: weird, what you sent me works, but if I set muscol as a regular menu.. as soon as I set as "default" for the home page the problem comes back.

has you assigned a "default Itemid" to the component parameters? (read the last part of this article: http://www.joomlathat.com/documentation/music-collection/getting-started )