You have 2 dates you can use:
- Date, generally used as the Album date
- Original date, generally used at the Track date

Since most of my compilation albums only have one or two tracks per Artist the setup you guided me to works quite well.

I have however run into another issue.
Within an artist the albums are displayed horizontally by date, which is what I want.
How do I change the Album date to a date which is unrelated to any of the track dates.
If I select the Album | Properties and set the date it wants to change the date of all the tracks.

Yes, when you expand an Album all contents of the Album are shown. However this isn't an issue when you switch to the List or List (by Album) [url=https://www.mediamonkey.com/wiki/WebHelp:Filelisting/5.0#Changing_Views]View[/url] as they show the files, not Albums associated with the selected Contributing Artist.

[quote=zabadack post_id=507140 time=1677790304 user_id=122315]
Will someone please either tell me what I am doing wrong or tell me I wasted $50.43 cents because MediaMonkey cannot do what I want it to.
[/quote]

HI, can I just take you back to your initial question? I did try get to grips with the whole thread, but it got a dense, and I am not sure that it is working towards answering your initial query.

Firstly your initial tagging seems correct to me, ie composite albums have a collective name albumartist, like "Various Artists", to collect together the album.

[quote=zabadack post_id=507121 time=1677752983 user_id=122315]
Is there any way to obtain my two wants:
Album View I see a single album which shows all tracks
Artist View I see only the tracks from that artist on the compilation album.
[/quote]


You have already discovered how to see the first of the above two items.

The second is available in the "List (by album)" View.

[url=https://www.dropbox.com/s/ucgh2mo8t6h8ec0/Filtered%20List%20By%20Album%20View%20of%20a%20composite.png?dl=0]Here I have opened the Artist subnode[/url], looking at The Beach boys ... I am in "List (by album) View. (nb. there are various ways to set View; one is menu View>MainPanelView)

In the above illustration you can see that Beach Boys albums are displayed, including the the Forest Gump Soundtrack composite album, and that album shows the Beach Boys track only ... Which is what you are looking for?

What may be confusing you is a design decision by the MM Designers.

If I stay in the same position (ie. I don't re-navigate to somewhere else). All I do is change To the "Grid (by album)" View.
I can still see the composite album. I can open two different views into it, ie. either [url=https://www.dropbox.com/s/ox9xpnphil0vp4m/drilldown%20path%201.png?dl=0]click the album art[/url], or alternatively [url=https://www.dropbox.com/s/e099tsmwk26b143/drilldown%20path%202.png?dl=0]click the album name[/url] ... The two views are different, but both show all tracks in the album, not just the Beach Boys track.

You may think that this is wrong. Ie. you have drilled down into The Beach Boys ... and then you drill down a little further, and they ignore your context, and polute the display with non-Beach Boy tracks.

They would probably say that they are not providing an incorrect answer, they are providing a valid answer to the other question that you may have been asking ... ie. you wanted to see albums that contain Beach Boys tracks, and then you clicked one of the albums to see what it contained. ie. you started another query.

As you see above, both of the album displays are quite clear about which are Beach Boy tracks

Is this what you are expecting to see?
[url=https://ibb.co/N9zQt3H][img]https://i.ibb.co/7nF8jz6/10-Contributing-Artist-Single-Track-Display.jpg[/img][/url]
This works fine if the Artist appears on only a single Album.
However if they appear on multiple albums, such as the Rolling Stones one has to scroll through hundreds of tracks to find what appears on any one album.
I guess I will have to learn to live with it.

I sincerely thank you for your patience and help during my journey of discovery.

Thank you, that was perfect, even I understood what you wanted.
Sadly however, as you can see in the image below, it did not work either.
Next?
[url=https://ibb.co/yRjhy63][img]ht tps://i.ibb.co/qnQ0sNZ/09-Partial-Contributing-Artist-Album-Track-List-2.jpg[/img][/url]
https://i.ibb.co/qnQ0sNZ/09-Partial-Contributing-Artist-Album-Track-List-2.jpg

Enable [url=https://www.mediamonkey.com/wiki/WebHelp:Library/5.0#Settings]Show all subnodes[/url] using the ⋮ Menu button in the Media Tree, then you can expand the Contributing artists node and when you select an individual artist value you'll only see the files matching the Artist value, excluding the Album Artist matches for that selected artist value.

[i]Select the artist value (you may need to enable this) in the Media Tree[/i]
Does this translate to: Check the Artists (Artists and Album Artists) in the Sub-node list?
[i]instead of viewing all files in the Collection through the root Contributing Artists node[/i]
Does this translate to: Select Artists under Music+ instead of Contributing Artists
If the answer to both was "yes" then I did so and it had no effect.
If the answer to one or both was No then I would appreciate it if you would dumb down your response to my limited knowledge/experience with MMW.

Select the artist value (you may need to [url=https://www.mediamonkey.com/wiki/WebHelp:Library/5.0#Settings]enable this[/url]) in the Media Tree instead of viewing all files in the Collection through the root Contributing Artists node.

Here is a series of screenshots.
Let me know if you need anything else.
[url=https://imgbb.com/][img]ht tps://i.ibb.co/QH7tHPM/01-Music-Collection-Criteria.jpg[/img][/url]
[url=https://ibb.co/L69SV4D][img]ht tps://i.ibb.co/pZ42YC6/02-Music-Collection-Sub-nodes.jpg[/img][/url]
[url=https://ibb.co/K0QkvVY][img]ht tps://i.ibb.co/tmNtrYS/03-Album-Properties.jpg[/img][/url]
[url=https://ibb.co/Cvn1X3d][img]ht tps://i.ibb.co/wCK0bFH/04-Partial-Album-Track-list.jpg[/img][/url]
[url=https://ibb.co/6yhMkGv][img]ht tps://i.ibb.co/L0wF3BQ/05-Track-Properties.jpg[/img][/url]
[url=https://ibb.co/WfNs50j][img]ht tps://i.ibb.co/ZxRNXS7/06-Partial-Contributing-Artis-List.jpg[/img][/url]
[url=https://ibb.co/DkHmqDn][img]ht tps://i.ibb.co/4MnCQZx/07-Contributing-Artist-Album-List.jpg[/img][/url]
[url=https://ibb.co/sV0qYm1][img]ht tps://i.ibb.co/XChtR25/08-Partial-Contributing-Artist-Album-Track-List.jpg[/img][/url]

Please show with [url=https://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=97733]Screenshots[/url] how this fails for you.

[i]But the Contributing Artist node should only show files where the artist value is in the Artist field.[/i]

That is my understanding as well but how do I convince you that it is not happening?
I am more than willing to accept that there is a parameter somewhere that I have not set but without some guidance to add to my non-existent in depth knowledge of the program I will never find it.

Yes, if you click the Album it will show all files on the Album as you will be taken to the Album node for that Album. But the Contributing Artist node should only show files where the artist value is in the Artist field.

Yes I did.
New Collection="Music+"
Criteria: Type equals Music
Sub Nodes: All Tracks, Albums, Genres, Contributing artists, Composers, Years, Publishers, Rating, Classification, Location, Files To Edit
Open Music+ Tree
Click Contributing Artist, select an artist that appears on the compilation, and the compilation album shows, click the album and see all 76 tracks!
What now?

Did you go and [url=https://www.mediamonkey.com/wiki/WebHelp:Playback_Rules/5.0#Customizing_Collections]configure a Collection[/url] under [b]Tools > Options > Collection & Views[/b] like Music to add the [i]Contributing Artists (Artists only)[/i] under the Sub-node tab? You need to use Contributing Artists node instead of Artist node to get the results you seek.