I guess I wasn't clear. The problem I have is that the artist_sort field is tagged with "surname, first name" and I'd rather have it "first name + surname". I hope that's clear.
On Monday, July 4, 2016 at 1:15:45 PM UTC-5, Adrian Sampson wrote: > > Hi! I don’t completely understand the problem—is it that the `artist_sort` > field is missing? Or that `artist` is equal to `artist_sort`? > > A couple of ideas might help: > - The `beet modify` command can always make manual changes. > - You might try the `mbsync` plugin to re-download canonical metadata from > MusicBrainz. > > On Jul 4, 2016, at 10:47 AM, Andres C. <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > > I've always ran beets on Linux and kept my music on an external hard > drive. However I had to move to Windows a couple of weeks ago, I installed > beets but it was giving me a lot of trouble with paths so I decided to go > back to the tool I used years before beets on Windows, CATraxx, a > discontinued music collection manager. I imported all my music and CATraxx > messed up the "artist_sort" tag field. So back on Linux, now on my music > player (MPD + Cantata) I see "Drake, Nick" or "Dylan, Bob" and I'd rather > keep it how it was before. Is there a way to remove this field or set it > back to "normal" with beets? > > Thanks. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "beets" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] <javascript:>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "beets" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
