The best solution I've come up with is to use a Virtual Tag in place of
Album Artist. I've called it "Filter Album Artist 30+".
$If(<Album Artist>="[Various Artists]","[Various Artists]",$If($Count(<Title>,<Album Artist>)>29,$Sort(<Album Artist>),[Other]))
Compilations are always grouped under
[Various Artists], artists with less than 30 tracks in my library are grouped under
[Other], while anyone else gets their own entry. This keeps the list from getting clogged up with random bands that I don't need to be able to select individually. You can just adjust the cutoff point depending on how many tracks an artist should have for you to consider them worthy of being shown separately.
I use it in the
Thumbnail Browser, but you should be able to do something similar for other elements:
This has always been a problem for libraries with lots of compilation albums. I think there needs to be a better, built-in solution, but I'm not sure what it is yet.
Bee excellent to each other...