Parking the discussion about how to tag albums, what really matters here is how 
browsing the content of the library could be improved.

When displaying albums for a chosen artist, it is easy to determine for each 
album whether it is a compilation or not, so it must be fairly easy to sort by 
compilation ascending (non-comps first, comps last).  Would need to treat 
Compilation=null and 0 as the same value for sorting, but that's easy.  A minor 
tweak to an Order By statement could achieve that.

SBS can order by artist, album, which means compilations should be listed 
together by "Various Artists" (or whatever). So this isn't a million miles 
away.  Problem is if a user want to order by album title, year or genre.  They 
would still like non-comps first, and then artist, album title, year or genre.  
So just add a order by ISNULL(compilation,0) clause before the chosen order 
mode.

Better still would be to group the albums that have compilation=1 to list them 
under a sub-item.  This would affect multiple user interfaces, so is probably 
more work (at least in testing), and likely to break third-party apps (iPeng, 
etc) to some degree.

It is also easy to determine albums that the artist has been involved on where 
the artist is not the main artist (or album artist).

Appearances on compilations and as a track artist on non-compilations could be 
sorted or grouped in separate sections or combined in one section.  Not too 
bothered either way.
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