Artists and Compilations and AppleTV, oh my!

Hopefully this is an easy one: I've got Compilation albums with many different artists. In iTunes, I have Checked "Compilation" and none of the artists appear in the "Artists" view. I can not get this same behavior in the Apple TV though. All of the artists show up individually and I seem to have thousands of separate artists listings.
Is there any way to have the Apple TV use a "Compilation" function like iTunes? I'm pretty sure I was able to do this in an older version of the Apple TV software, but I can't figure it out using the newest version.
Thanks,

Matt Larson2 wrote:
Hopefully this is an easy one: I've got Compilation albums with many different artists. In iTunes, I have Checked "Compilation" and none of the artists appear in the "Artists" view. I can not get this same behavior in the Apple TV though. All of the artists show up individually and I seem to have thousands of separate artists listings.
Is there any way to have the Apple TV use a "Compilation" function like iTunes? I'm pretty sure I was able to do this in an older version of the Apple TV software, but I can't figure it out using the newest version.
it works like that for me. none of the artists in my compilations show up in my artist list on appletv.
sounds like you, and the other poster in this thread have tagging issues.

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