>> Album Artist is not just about placement/sort ordering.  It's meant to
>> be used for grouping differing artists on an album to appear as a single
>> album artist name.
>
>right.  so in other words, to sort it where you want it.
Not really.  Album Artist has very little to do with sorting.  After all, you 
can have more than one album artist defined for an album (ALBUMARTIST=Robert 
Plant, ALBUMARTIST=Jimmy Page, or TPE2=Robert Plant;Jimmy Page).  Which artist 
would it sort the album under then?  If this album was a comedy album, would 
you put TPE2=Comedy - Robert Plant;Comedy - Jimmy Page?

Normally, you could click on an aritst name to see all albums by that artist.  
Clicking on the album artist "Comedy - Robert Plant", would not show all Robert 
Plant albums, only comedy ones (eg. "Christmas - Robert Plant" would not be 
listed).

I get what you are doing, and if it suits your needs then thats great, but I 
can't see it being a common way of organising a library.  Most people will use 
genres, or possibly album title formatting to achieve the same result.
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