I know that view, but, for example, it break my Wicked soundtrack into many different ones based on the particular artist of each track. I just went through and made a common album artist for all of the problematic albums, which seems to be the only fix for now.
Thank you all for your input!
I think that's the best you can do. You still can't browse by "Album Artist", but as you say, using a common album artist is sufficient to keep your albums together in the album views. Mine stick together, but if I have any left with inconsistent or missing "Album Artist" fields, I don't know about it.
FWIW, I've been using "Musical" for "Album Artist" for things like "Wicked", and "Soundtrack" for true movies and TV, and so forth, and that pretty much goes to waste on the Touch. Fortunately, even though I haven't been using "Genre", I've been keeping it consistent, so I still have some way to browse these things which have different "Artists" for just about every track. Of course, the explosion of artists still ruins the "Artists" view.
For classical music, I use the composer name for album artist and the performer for artist, and the Touch manages to ruin that, too. For example, when viewing "Artists", instead of seeing "Schubert", I see "Smetana Quartet". You might say, "Why not browse by composer?" Well, iTunes tells me I have 3,147 composers! I've never heard of most of them. In contrast, I have 424 Album Artists, all of which I recognize. I have 866 Artists, half of which I don't know, and it substitutes "Smetana Quartet" for "Schubert" as previously mentioned. The only thing that really works for browsing is "Album Artist".
I had it all figured out, I tell ya, and I just had to go and sell everything and switch to the Touch!