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Windows media player (11) gets the distinction between Album Artist and Contributing Artist correct.

A search By Contributing artist in MP will show all the Performers of each track in Compilation or Soundtrack albums.
A search by Artist in MP will show the Album artist "Various" or whatever you have chosen to call the Album artist on compilation CD's.

Not so Vista Media Center. In the Music choices along the top of the screen there are options of "Artist" and Album Artist". There is no difference in the listing displayed by these options. You always get Album Artist whichever one you choose.

The fact that there are 2 different options, must mean (I thought) that I have missed a setting somewhere, or there is a hack that will allow VMC to do it's proper search job.
I have searched and surfed, and all I can find is entries in Vista wish lists for future editions.
There must be thousands of us out there with the same problem.

Please someone tell me that there is a way around this.

Regards,