Remote app shows 'album artist' instead of 'artist'...

for a normal cd, i have stored the 'artist' name in the 'artist' field and also in the 'album-artist' field.
for a compilation cd, i have stored the 'artist' of a song in the 'artist field'. the 'album-artist' field contains the information 'various artists'.
having done this, remote app 3 shows
the 'album artist' field in the normal list of songs, this means i see 'various artists' instead of the name of the artist (see 1)
in the 'next up' list the information for the same song is shown correctly (see 2)
it seems to me that there is something wrong.
or i misunderstand the meaning of the 'artist album' field.
i do hope, somebody can explain it to me, or apple sees the error and fixes it.
greez.

i found the solution in the german macuser forum.
obviously i had tagged my mp3 not to the recommended standard.
if you have a compilation, the albumartist field MUST be blank, instead you can mark it as a compilation.
this solved my problem.

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