with 'album layout' this is how it works at the moment:
- sort by picture or album artist, then sort order is album artist, album, disc-track no
- sort by album, then album, disc-track no (no album artist sorting)
- sort by anything else, then clicked column, album, disc-track no (no album artist sorting)
the reason was so people could group an album together when they hadn't get correctly set the album artist between all the tracks, but in your case its not working well when multiple albums with same name have different album artists.
Perhaps it should always be album artist, album, disc-track no and people will need to fix the album artist to be the same for all tracks in the album
For some compilations album artist could be determined from Album name (... mixed by DJ Agent, ... miged by Shy FX) but many of them are only best of 90's, Best of dnb, Best of acidjazz... so album artist couldnt be determined. I found tag "Part" in Options>
How about to use this tag and if it is set to 1 when it is a compilation so these albums would be sorted like now in Album layout:
- sort by picture or album artist, then sort order is album artist, album, disc-track no
- sort by album, then album, disc-track no (no album artist sorting)
- sort by anything else, then clicked column, album, disc-track no (no album artist sorting)
and sorting for "normal albums" that would be always:
- album artist, album, disc-track no
Am I right about tag Part?? Is it TCMP tag???
If yes then It could be 6th custom tag with name "Part of compilation" which couldnt be modified (It would be system) and should be a check box (with values 0 - unchecked,1 - checked)
What do you think??
peter