Methods to turn multiple artist songs into 1 artist for search on ipod/itun

I am trying to take some of my CDs with songs that have multiple artists and only have the main artist appear on my iPod when I go to Music->Artists.
For example: 50 Cent; most of his songs have multiple artists.
On my iPod when I go to Music->Artists I see
50 Cent/Olivia
50 Cent/Tony Yayo
50 Cent; Eminem
50 Cent; Eminem; Lloyd Banks
etc...
I want all these songs to only be under their main artist being 50 Cent. I would like to go to Music->Artists and see only 50 Cent instead of this list of artists.
There is a solution to this where you just swap the Artist field with the Album artist so you still retain the multiple artist information. I am anal and would like to keep the fields how they are, is there a way around this?
I would also prefer a fast method as I do not like having to select one song at a time and going to getInfo to change swap the fields.

Have you had a look at this troubleshooting page? It may be of some help: Why aren't songs with the same album art grouped together

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