jstevej9491

I wish you'd go a little deeper into a couple of things. I'm not sure I understand the difference between "Artist" and "Album Artist". I've learned that if only the artist field is complete for one track and both the Artist and Album Artist fields are filled in on another, and the Album Artist differs from Artist, iTunes appears to alphabetize based on Album Artist, so it will list two separate artists. Put Bob Marley as Artist, e.g., and Bob Marley & the Wailers as Album Artist, and iTunes lists them as two separate artists. But in general I want one big folder for an artist, and then within that, I want sub-categories for variants. How do I do that? 
Also any advice on how to deal with guest artists? In general, I still want a track to go under the main artist, but if I include the guest artist in either the Artist or Album Artist fields, iTunes wants to break that track out as a separate artist. And then, what if I also want the track to show up under the guest artist's name in their own folder? I haven't done it in years but in the operating system, Apple allowed you to create an alias that you could put somewhere else that would link to the original file, but I don't believe iTunes has ever allowed you to do that.
And I'm assuming you are throwing up your hands at any mention of jazz or classical, which have special needs. Yeah, I really would like to be able to listen to every cut I have featuring Bill Evans or Miles Davis. But they've played with lots of folks in addition to their own groups. Yeah, I could create a playlist for each artist, but that would take a lot of time. I wish iTunes would pull in all of the band members on each track for me and then let me sort them. 
With classical, how do I keep all of the movements of one work together when it has multiple works? And how do I sort by both composer and artist, i.e., I wanna play all of my Mozart, but also anything directed by Toscanini or where Rubenstein played the piano? Oh yeah, I also wanna play the whole CD of the Boston Symphony that included that three part Mozart piece as well as something by Bach. 
Any good database would let me do some of these sorts, but iTunes either can't or the way to do it is fairly well hidden.