Alex - I see, but did you make that DJ mix album ALL Ferry Thorsten? I assume you did, but even if you have not it would show up as one album in the instance you illustrate.
The problem arises when I want to split a multi-artist album up so that I can see ALL tracks by an artist in Tiles view.
If Prince Buster has a few tracks on a mix album that is buried (in Tiles Albums view) in (Multiple Artists) or whatever Album Artist (auto) field I have created, those tracks are NOT listed under the Tile for the Artist, Prince Buster. They remain "buried" in the mulit-artist album.
So I wanted to change some of the Prince Buster tracks to have, Prince Buster as the Album Artist (auto) field so they will be added, and not the other esoteric artists, to the Album Artist (auto) Tiles view.
This way I don't have the default Artists Tiles view with 1,000's of Artists of whom I only have a few tracks as they are spread out over hundreds of multi-artists albums. I don't have a default Album Artist (auto) view which excludes any artists who may be popular to me & have tons of tracks, but are found ONLY on mulit-artsist cd's.
I have a modifed Album Artists (auto) view that incorporates particular Artists's tracks from multiple artist cd's. In the same light I have to go in a modify the Artists' names when they happen to be a little different to further "clean up" this view. e.g. Bob Dylan & The Band, Bob Dylan & The Dead = Bob Dylan.
The trade-off, unless there is another way to do this, is the stas problem mentioned earlier.
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Dr. C