The "Both" choice is missing from the poll.
I use both at the same time (inside MC).
My calculated "Album Artist (Auto) / Album" tile view works perfectly fine on the top and the bottom shows about 40 fields in the details mode.
When I click one of the top thumbnails MC shows instantly the track details of the selected album only.
One of my Artist/Albums view schemes shows about 2200 separate full albums on the top. When the new system was introduced the calculated view was very slow, but after Matt did some hexifying
and other magical tricks it became as fast as the other views. It has become my preferred way to browse albums.
Usually I have not decided what artist I like to listen to before browsing the albums. I have found browsing all albums side by side much better than first selecting an artist and then browsing the albums from the selected artist only.
IMHO, the "Album Artist (auto) - Album" field should be one of the default library fields and it should be one of the default audio scheme view items.
My instructions for making the calculated field & view scheme:
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=30774.msg212216#msg212216In that example I have included all media types, but naturally the view can be audio only as well. (I use them both.)