Sort after Album Arist, then track #

Hello there Itunes lovers,
does anyone know how to sort after "album artist", without any influences from "artist"?
I've, for instance, an album with various artist, hence the "album artist" is labeled VA, and I still want it to sort after the cd's track number, instead of a secondary sort by "artist". This leads to great mess in the library, with track # in the wrong order.
I'm greateful for any help there is.
Thanks

I'm a little confused by what you're asking. You said, "It would be great if the Album Artist represented the artist of the album, while Artist specified the artists in that specific song." That's exactly how it should work — if you have a Johnny Cash album with different artists on the individual tracks (like "Johnny Cash with Tom Petty"), then entering "Johnny Cash" in the Album Artist slot for the entire album will tag the album as a Johnny Cash album, and alphabetize the album accordingly when you sort by "Album by Year" or "Album by Artist". If you sort on the Artist column, the individual track artists will be broken out into their individual Artist locations.
Text entered in the search box will match both Artist and Album Artist — in the example I gave, searching for "Johnny Cash" will return the entire album, while searching for "Tom Petty" will return only the one track.
In your example, what are the different fields? The Artist is "US3", the track Name is "Cantaloop", the Album is "Flip Fantasia", and the Album Artist is "Jazz Funk Jazz Funk Jazz Funk"? If so, sorting on the Artist column will sort the track with the U's, sorting Album by Artist will sort the album with the J's, and entering either "US3" or "Jazz Funk" into the search box will return the track in the list of results.

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