I won't be able to do this for NGS release.

While I understand pushing this from the initial release, I don't think this is trivial in Priority. Discogs tracklists, for example, are artist - title so are unparseable currently. One has to do it all manually which is very painful in either the text box OR the advanced editor for decent sized VA releases (and an obvious regression from previous release editor)

This is kind of a deal-breaker... MB is the only site I know of that puts the Title before the Artist on a webpage. Most other sites (and even media players!) list Artist then Title. This makes adding a V/A release extremely painful since you cannot copy and paste; you have to retype everything. I know I don't have the patience to do that and I suspect most other users will feel the same way. Instead, I'll probably just add the files to my music library, forget MB altogether, and just fix up any minor annoyances in my local tags. I would much rather contribute to MB.

Amazon does title first, fwiw, but it's certainly not the usual. However I agree that adding a VA release of any length is ridiculously difficult at the moment and most users will give up. Add to that general slowness and the timeouts in the "add missing entities" page and... yeah, goodbye contributions if we don't sort it out quickly.

http://chatlogs.musicbrainz.org/musicbrainz-devel/2011/2011-12/2011-12-05.html

For the meantime, http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/121369

Seems like it should be trivial, but after spending an hour battling with the track parser I'm going to have to throw in the towel

This is now in code review at http://codereview.musicbrainz.org/r/2279/