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Tagging, Xplay and "Various Artists" issues

I just finished the demo period on Xplay and liked it enough to register...but I'm a little annoyed that, as with the iPod interface, it lists every artist I have even one track by in the "artists" folder. Is there a way to declutter it so only artists by whom I have whole albums show up in the folder?

This brings up an issue with tagging MP3s that has long frustrated me--the lack of a decent way to handle "various artists" albums. I'd love it if I could configure tags so that (for example) the soundtrack for "Pulp Fiction" would show up as "original soundtrack" or "various artists" when doing a view-by-artist, while keeping the individual songs tagged by artist so that "Jungle Boogie" is shown as being by Kool and the Gang rather than by "various artists" or "original soundtrack". Is there an easy way to resolve this? If there's a tagging program that can reliably solve this problem, I'd love to be steered toward it.
[960 byte] By [Andrew J.] at [2007-11-9 12:20:00]
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