Apologies if this has been gone over before (I suspect it has, several times), but I couldn't find a solution.
I have been experimenting to see if I can store all names in natural order (first, middle, last), but keep them sorted on the last name. This works as standard for Artist and AlbumArtist (using ArtistSort and AlbumArtistSort), but not for Composer, Conductor or Band. The latter 3 can be included in the standard Artist list (in My Music settings), but cannot be sorted in the same way as Artists, which is odd, to say the least. I thought I'd try to get Custom Scan to do the job. I already have COMPOSERSORT, CONDUCTORSORT and BANDSORT tags set up (through the joys and complications of regular expressions), so I included them in the Custom Scan tags on the custom tags settings page. I also added COMPOSER=COMPOSERSORT,CONDUCTOR=CONDUCTORSORT,BAND=BANDSORT to the sort fields on the same settings page. In the Mixed Tag settings page I have included COMPOSER, CONDUCTOR & BAND. I was hoping, possibly erroneously, that the ValueSort field for COMPOSER (mixedtag) in persist.db would then contain the COMPOSERSORT tag (etc for the others), but this does not seem to be the case. I think it is picking up the sort values from the standard LMS tags, which in these cases is not what I want. I also have custom tags WORK and WORKSORT. Both the customtag and mixedtag entries for WORK have my own WORKSORT set as the valuesort. Have I misunderstood something, or set it up wrong? Is there a difference between setting up a sort value for a custom tag and a standard tag? Would I be better off specifying COMPOSER, CONDUCTOR and BAND as custom tags and omitting them from the mixed tag set-up, and if so are there any other consequences in doing so? LMS 7.9 on VortexBox Midi running Xubuntu 14.04, FLACs 16->24 bit, 44.1->192kbps. Wired Touch + EDO, coax to Musical Fidelity M1 CLiC. Wireless Xubuntu 14.04 laptop controls LMS via Chromium. Meridian Explorer USB DAC to listen via Squeezelite on Vortexbox & other PCs as required. Spare Touch in loft. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PasTim's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=41642 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49483 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
