Comment 50 for bug 319494

Audun,
the whole behaviour is a little bit tricky. By definition (Amaroks definition) a compilation has no album artist.
Which explains why your album artist is cleared if you select "show under variouis artists".

Another behaviour is; if you sort your collection by album/artist or artist/album, then the artist in question is always the album artist and not the track artist.

Another behaviour is that, if no album artist is set, then the track artist is used as album artist.

To make a long story short: please scan the directories in question with the amarokcollectionscanner application and attach the output here (please don't scan your whole collection, the result would be too large for a bug entry).