Help with "Sort Artist" please

Hi all
What I'm trying to do is use iTunes to make it so that tracks that are by different artists appear under the same artist when I go through the "Artist" field on my iPod Touch.
For example, I've got songs that are by Prince & the Revolution, songs that are by Prince & the New Power Generation, songs that are by Prince on his own, and songs that are by O(+>. I want iTunes to know that they are by different artists, but I want them to all appear under Prince in the alphabetical list on my iPod. Am I explaining this right?
So, when I look at my iPod, I go to Prince, and everything by all those other "artists" are under that name, even though the iPod still knows they are credited differently.
I thought the "Album Artist" field would do it, like you use for Various Artist albums. But the "Album Artist" field doesn't even appear as an option on my iPod screen, only in iTunes. So I tried the "Sort Artist" field, which put all the various versions of Prince together in the list but still listed them separately.
I realize I could simplify my own life by just making the basic "Artist" field all the same, which would remove the problem. But that's not strictly accurate, is it? The NPG aren't the Revolution, and I should be able to credit them differently. But I also want, for convenience's sake, to be able to shuffle around all the various versions of Prince all together without having to create a playlist to do it.
Assuming any of that makes sense, does anybody have any advice?
thanks
lvsxy808

> No I cant thats why I am doing a course in it at the moment,
I said, then at the end. So if mlk can't read, then you can't program. I also posted a smiley to emphasize it was more of a cynical remark of me.
> I was not looking for someone to do my
homework I had a question regarding a sorting
problem.
I'm sure you aren't, but I don't see a question in there. I can only see a bunch of lines without comments. You also didn't provide some sample in/output, but only wrote "I want to do Y, but are only able to do X...".
I have told you this before:
Try to look at your own post as if you had never seen it, and are not familiar with the exact assignment. Would you be able to post a meaningfull answer to your "question"? I don't think so.
In previous posts you were given numerous links to basic tutorials (including sorting tutorials) which you apparently didn't read. That's too bad.
> Im sure everyone wont be as ignorant
What do you mean by that?

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