That's pretty close to what I do, except that I don't use MUSICBRAINZ to get ARTISTSORT. I'm not sure I'd trust that approach completely.
Instead, I simply have a couple of Mp3tag actions defined to set ARTISTSORT. One for groups and one for individuals. The one for groups strips leading articles, while the one for individuals swaps first and last names. So it's just a matter of identifying the artist as one or the other and selecting the right action. On compilations I use Ctrl+Click to select all the groups, run the Groups action, then Ctrl+Shift+A to invert the selection and run the Individuals action. In cases where there's more than one artist I don't add an ARTISTSORT tag. See the attached Mp3tag action files. Change the extensions from .txt to .mta and place them in the Mp3tag actions folder. On my XP system it's at: C:\Documents and Settings\Jim\Application Data\Mp3tag\data\actions I used to use Google image search for finding album covers, but increasingly find myself using an image from Amazon.com. So I keep browser windows open with both, but usually check Amazon first. I also go an extra step and resize all of my covers to 300x300, plus I put a one pixel black border around each of them. +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Filename: Individual.txt | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=3150| +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ -- JJZolx Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=37707 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
