>If I enable the compilation tag the album artist is ignored, it only
>shows up under various artists. It does however show the correct artist
>& title information.
That's correct - intentional by design.

When browsing artists, the "Various Artists" artist name isn't really an 
artist, and the albums within it may not be by an artist called "Various 
Artists" - it's a container name for all albums that are compilations, as 
defined by the SBS settings > My Music:  "When compilation albums are grouped 
together, they appear under "Various Artists" by default. You can change that 
name below."  i.e. if you change this setting to "Compilations", Browse Artists 
would contain an artist called "Compilations", and albums automatically 
receiving the Compilation tag by the scanner would have an album artist called 
"Compilations".

Compilation albums can have any album artist name, and will be displayed/sorted 
under that name if you browse albums.

As I've said a few times before (enhancement suggestion logged), it's a bit 
strange having a special Various Artists artist to display compilations within 
Browse Artists list.  It would be better to have a Browse Compilations menu.  
This would be clearer, and I'm sure less special case logic to support each 
type of UI and result in better performance.
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