PasTim wrote: > 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?
I tried a change last night where I specified COMPOSER, CONDUCTOR and BAND as custom tags and omitted them from the mixed tag set-up. This seems to have done the trick. I had to modify three of my menus (Albums by Composer/Conductor/Band) to be mixed tag menus, but apart from that it has worked fairly smoothly. So at some point I will bite the bullet and change all my artists/composers/conductors etc. to show as 'first middle last-name'. My only problem is getting my tagging software to use regular expressions on multi-value tags. 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
