Have anyone succeded with this challenge?
I can't be the only one facing this problem.

The idea is that artists that is only present on Compilation albums
should be listed in your Artist-listings.

iTunes and SBS is quite straight forward:
In iTunes: Set Compilation=1(yes) and Album Artist=Various Artists
In SBS: check the option to not include Compilation Artist in Artist
listings

The Problem is iPhone/iPod touch (since day one, all "old" ipod's works
as expected):
To trick iPhone/iPod you have to set a SortArtist tag to push the
Compilations Artist to the bottom of your list,
SortArtist=99999-%artist%
This makes the iPhone to at least move these one-hit-wonders out of the
way to prevent the artist list to be overly cluttered.

THE PROBLEM:
When having some artist appearing on both Compilation
(SortArtist=9999-%artist%) and their own original albums
(SortArtist=null).
SBS removes the artist from the main list and sorts the artist ONLY
under 9999-%artist%, however the tracks tagged with that sorting
attribute were omitted from the Artist listning since they were
compilations, leaving now only the original Albums here.
This mean that my Artist list shows in Alphabetical order all Artists
that doesn't appear on a compilation. And then in the numerical
section, in alphabetical order again, all Artist that appears on a both
original and compilation albums (This is NOT as expected). There are no
artists that only appears on a compilation (this is as expected).

Do anyone have a solution to this, another strategy perhaps?
-No, I don't want to throw my iPhone away, but the idea has come to my
mind...


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jasell

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