"get info" when you upload a CD - what does it mean "part of a compilation"?

If you have an album with tracks by different artists, for instance "Now That's What I Call Running", that's a Compilation of songs by different artists. (Presumably, they ran out of numbers )
So in iTunes, each track should be marked as Part of a compilation. When you see that box on a CD loaded in your CD drive, ready for importing, look at the Get Info for the complete album (by highlighting the album title on the left under Devices) and on there you will see a tick-box named Compilation CD which - if ticked - marks all the tracks as Part of a compilation. This becomes useful when the iPod and iTunes sort the album.
However - iTunes obtains the album information from a third-party database called Gracenote, which is compiled by the record label personel, artists and fans. Quiet often, you will find that an album of "Greatest Hits of <a band>" will be marked as a compilation. I don't think it is, and neither does iTunes. So if you are importing a "Greatest Hits of xxx artist" album, make sure that the Compilation box is off (no tick-in-the-box). Likewise, an album by "an artist", but with a guest artist on one or two tracks is not a compilation.
One final point; if you import a true Compilation album, with each track by a different artist, then once it is imported, make sure that the Album Artist field says "Various Artists". You do this by highlighting the complete album in your library and selecting File/Get Info/Info>Album Artist which is the box immediately below the Artist box and typing in "Various Artists". This will help you when sorting and searching albums on your iPod.

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