I just recently bought the new CD by Alanis Morissette, ripped it to AAC 160kbs and I can see it in my library. When I hit the browse-eye gadget to open the browse interface, the album will list on the right, but I can't find 'Alanis Morissette' anywhere on the left in my artist listing. It got the track info from the CDDB database just fine though and the artist field for each track is indeed filled.
What's going on? Anybody know why iTunes won't list the artist? It's not in the Ms, the As, and so on.
SOLUTION
Ok, answering my own question since I figured it out right before pressing the submit button. Just for fun, I clicked on 'compilations' item in the artist listing, and the Alanis album was in THERE. The CDDB database lists her album as a compilation, and therefore, EXCLUDED it from showing up in the Artist listing separately, which I was expecting.
I've found more albums I have to fix by selecting all songs on an album, and group editing the combo box setting 'part of a compilation = NO'.
Figured I'd let everybody else know in case they had the same confusing thing happen.