Creating new genre's for albums ...or making playlists which show albums, not tracks

I listen to mainly compilations and mix cd's where the artist of each
track is generally not important.

My problem is that now I've got a couple of hundred albums ripped, I
have difficulty in finding the album that I want to play in the long
listing on the left.

The 'Album' column is sorted alphabetically by Album name (*not*
artist name) - and I generally don't remember the Album name - only
that the album is, say, a mix by John Digweed or a Coldcut mix on the
Ninja Tune label.

Sorting by 'Artist' is no good, as this gives the performer of each
track on the mix, and there's no mention of 'John Digweed' in the list
at all.

What I want to do is create a new genre and drag a whole album in - so
I can look in my 'Progressive house' genre and see all the Progressive
albums (*not* tracks) in my library.

I know how to create new genres, but reassigning genre only works for
individual tracks. I profoundly *do not* want to see one big well of
all the Progressive tunes I have - apart from anything else, all the
cd's are mixed and I want to hear the mix, not a single track (with a
delightfully abrupt start and stop). Playlists are similarly
afflicted.

On a side note, I actually think that the idea of labelling individual
tracks by genre rather than the album they came from is flawed - the
'granularity' is wrong ...but that's another post.

Please let me know how I can create new genres which contain albums,
not tracks - or suggest some other means of achieving what I want.

Many thanks,

Rob

 

Come on, people... someone must know the answer to this. There must be
plenty of people out there with the same problem.

At least tell me if it's not possible at all.

....Alternatively, can anyone suggest a more flexible media player?