Aha. For whatever it's worth, that is what the sort fields are usually for—most people want to sort artists by their surname (and display them in the opposite order).
Maybe a good solution for your case would be to use `modify` to remove the sort field altogether? Then your player will probably just sort by the ordinary `artist` field. > On Jul 4, 2016, at 11:56 AM, Andres C. <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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]> 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]. >>> 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. -- 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.
