May work for those with a small number of tracks, or only with certain music types. It's not a good solution if you have lots of compilations, Broadway, or albums with multiple artists where the artist tag by MP3 definition lists all (or most) of the artists on a particular track. Tesla's Artist menu (used to be "tab") is dumb in the sense it alpha sorts that list by whatever is listed in that string of text...
An example. Let's say you have an album where most of the tracks are James Taylor alone, but on one is James and someone else... First, in the former and present menu structure, you'll see two lines in the Artist Menu for that one album -- one for "James Taylor", and another for "James Taylor, Somebody Else", or "James Taylor & Somebody Else", or some other permutation.
It becomes more crazy if that second artist is listed first in the tag because they have the lead, as it sorts out of sequence from the rest with Tesla's implementation. You can imagine what happens with say a Broadway Album where one track has many artists, and who is first on each varies widely song to song, or on compilation albums where one artist or group does say duets with many others varying from track-to-track.
As I mentioned earlier in my all too long post, the simpler solution while it eliminates detail, has always been for Tesla to just use the "Album Artist" tag on the Media Player Album Menu, where in my former example, all tracks would have been tagged "James Taylor" and then there would be just one entry for the Album. OTOH, if Tesla cared about making USB operate like other best-of-breed media players, they'd add logic to either use the compilation tag as a trigger for what to do, or like say ITunes does, parse the Artist tag into its individual Artists even when there are multiples on a single track. It's complicated, but Tesla's implementation to me demonstrates the designers and engineers coding/testing are only using simple examples with a small volume -- not likely what represents Tesla Owners that also are trying to bring a substantial music library into their Tesla as they have probably done on former luxury vehicles they have owned. Sorry.
...oh, and I should add, the workaround I've been using and continue to use with 8.0 that allows me to use the Artist Menu, is TeslaTunes (available on Mac only). It literally reads my source tracks, takes the Album Artist tag and puts that data into the (track) Artist tag when it builds a copy of the track onto my USB stick, working around Tesla's deficiency. That helps, but honestly, with lots of tracks, albums, or artists, we need the alpha-shortcut back as scrolling is just unreasonable if your trying to keep your eyes on the road.