Comment 10 for bug 253167

This way of sorting is really a pain ....!
For people just buing single mp3s from common download locations the actual "browse by artist" works allright,
though even in this case you want to get rid of the various "featuring this guy or that guy"-stuff as appendix to the artist you want to look for.

if you, like me, are an album guy, then sorting by album artist gets mandatory for the reasons stated by the op.

I believe it should even be the default setting for the browser.
iTunes does it this way for many years now and there's a lot to say against Apple but they put a huge effort into researching the best usability. Still ALL linux music management programs ignore this albumartist issues.

I strongly believe rhythmbox (as banshee / exaile / gmpd ...) should sort by "album artist" by default (like iTunes does)
and offer an easy way (by clicking on the browserbar e.g.) to choose another criteria like "artist", "composer" (to be even more usable and less restrictive than iTunes!)

This can't be that hard to do!

thx for reading,
piedro