Organizing Your Music

I was bumming around on last.fm today and started to wonderin’ about a couple issues involved in organizing large music collections and I thought I’d pose some questions to my three readers. I am up in the air about these three questions so following in each question is my current thoughts and dilemma. 1. How do you handle tagging multi-artist albums? For instance I have a bunch of split albums and the artists don’t necessarily collaborate on the songs. So I think I should put which artist did the recording in the Artist tag but then sorting by artist ends up with a bunch of weird half albums but I am not sure that matters. And then there’s the question of songs that have other artists on them like Billy Joe Shaver’s “Get Thee Behind Me Satan” with John Michael Montgomery. If I add in John Michael’s name then I have a new “Artist” with one song and not an accurate Artist to boot. So I am thinking that the Comments field might be the place for this ...