slimpy Wrote: > Not having a sort tag related to TPE2 (Band) is a major flaw. There's no reason SlimServer couldn't create some (non-standard) sort tag for BAND/TPE2/ALBUMARTIST.
ALBUMARTISTSORT? If I'm not mistaken, ID3v2.3/4 permits freeform tags by using its TXXX tag, so it could have the same name in ID3, or some other name could be made up. > If you include band names (TPE2) in the artist list, there's no way to > have them correctly sorted. If you happen to have at least one other > album by the same artist as performer (TPE1) with appropriate TSOP tag > then there are two possible ways how the artist will be displayed > depending on the scan order of the involved albums: > 1) If the album with artist e.g. "Horace Silver" as TPE2 gets scanned > last by slimserver you will get two artist entries: "Silver, Horace" > and "Horace Silver" > 2) If any album with artist "Horace Silver" as TPE1 and "Silver, > Horace" as TSOP gets scanned last, you will end up with only one entry > "Silver, Horace" > > Slimserver seems to scan folders in alphabetical order recursive. > So you have to make sure that TPE2 tagged albums are never last > alphabetically within one artist's directory (if you follow the > artist/album "standard) to avoid 1) above. > > If someone knows a better solution I'm eager to know about it. Better solution: Bill Jackson's SortNames plugin. Then sorting of names, not just ARTIST, but _any_ contributor name - bands, orchestras, composers, conductors - can be designated without resorting to esoteric and not-always-agreed-upon tags. Funny you should mention the "scanned last namesort bug"... I filed a bug report on it just yesterday. Please add your comments regarding how it's also affected by TPE2/BAND tags and _vote_ to have it fixed. http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3069 -- JJZolx Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20642 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
