JJZolx;206799 Wrote: 
> The "Group compilation albums together" setting is designed to deal with
> exactly this issue.  When this is ticked and you browse by Artist, then
> you're essentially browsing only the Album Artists.  Those artists who
> only have tracks on compilation albums should not appear.
> 
> If it doesn't work, then there must be a problem with the way your
> library is tagged.

This takes a little bit of playing with the tags, but eventually gets
you where you want to be. You might want to try combining with
COMPILATION tag. It will force the album not to be compilation even if
there are multiple authors, so It won't be listed under various artists
but under band/album artist.

Thing I'd like to see is feature to enable listing by Band/Albumartist
for compilation albums only. The way it works right now, at least for
me, is that it lists everything that way if album artist tag is
populated, so if you want to have 'Baroque Favorites by Sorr' you also
have to accept 'Symphony No. 5 by Herbert von Karajan'.
While in the first case Sorr plays compositions of various baroque
composers, so it makes sense for him to be listed as an album artist,
the whole Fifth is written by Beethoven, and, while Karajan is album
artist for that album, I'd like to see it listed 'by Beethoven'.

This example also gives an interesting posibility, Baroque Favorites
usually include Bach, Handel and a few less known composers that I
don't want in my regular artist listing. So, I blank out artist tag for
those composers (move them into comment), force album not to be a
compilation, effectively making it listed under Bach and Handle. Makes
sense sometimes since I don't like going into Various Artists to search
for the music I have forgotten about.


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