you will only get a subset of the tracks from the album. Therefore it may still be best to implement the Track [Feat. Guest] and Artist=Album Artist workaround to avoid some clutter in the Artists menus and make it easier to listen to complete albums. N.b. iTunes 9.1 introduced an option under the View &gt; Column Browser menu to Use Album Artists which will declutter the Artist browser pane, however until this change is reflected in all iPod firmware the workaround may still provide the best approach. Update: iOS 5 includes an option under Settings &gt; Music &gt; Group By Album Artist which finally makes it practical to leave guest/feat. artist information in the Artist field, not that I can change anything until they update the classic firmware or my classic dies. One album, still too many covers The Sort Artist, Sort Album & Sort Album Artist fields can be used to override the normal sort order. For example iTunes automatically drops leading articles (a/an/the) so "The Beatles" are arranged under "B" instead of "T". Occasionally different tracks from the same album can have different values in these sort fields which can also break up the grouping. Making the sort columns visible in iTunes can help with spotting & correcting such problems. Tried that, there are STILL too many covers! iTunes may split albums into two or more sections if some tracks from the album have different values for Artist, Album Artist, Album, Sort Artist, Sort Album Artist, Sort Album,