th00ht wrote: > I went the "Presley, Elvis" way for a while but it seems to cumbersome. > No artist in their right mind would state Gabriel, Peter on his/her > album. So I went back to Elvis Presley, Prefab Sprout, Massive Attack, > Steven Wilson, Johann Sebastian Bach, Steve Rai Vaugn . etc. Any other > way seems to artificial. And no author in his/her right mind would put "Saramago, Jose" on his/her book, but lo' and behold, that's how one typically finds them arranged/sorted in libraries and bookshops. And the same when browsing through discs (CD or vinyl) in a bricks-and-mortar music shop, or even on our own bookshelves (at least for many of us). And the point is, doing it this way the artists still display naturally as "Peter Gabriel" instead of "Gabriel, Peter". In other words, it still says "Peter Gabriel", but you look for it under the Gs.
Obviously there is no universally "right" or "wrong" or even "preferred" choice between "firstname lastname" and "lastname, firstname" ordering, but what the OP is trying to do strikes me as achieving both natural display and a more natural ordering. What seems "artificial" to me would be sticking all the "Steves" together and all the "Johns" together and all the "Peters" together, etc. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=100160 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
