Philip Meyer;356372 Wrote: 
> >In all instances I see only "Artist" both at the album level and at
> the
> >track level.
> >
> Okay, rules that out as a possibility then.
> 
> >I would appreciate it if you could post an example from a
> FLAC/cuesheet
> >that works for you.  Maybe I'll spot something.
> >
> I don't have any cuesheets for FLAC files that need an ARTISTSORT tag,
> unfortunately.  If I find a moment, I may try it out to see if I
> experience the same issue though.
> 
> I do use FLAC files, and do have ARTISTSORT working for normal songs
> without cuesheets.
> 
> >I think I'm using v3.1 tags
> v3.1?  id3 only goes up to v2.4 I think.
> 

Sorry.  Error between brain and typing fingers.  I meant to type "3v1"
as in ID3v1.

Philip Meyer;356372 Wrote: 
> I use Mp3Tag.  Until recently, I hadn't realised that I was storing id3
> tags in FLAC files through Mp3Tag.  It's much better to ensure FLAC
> tags are stored, as the standard is much better.  In mp3tag, I select
> all songs, clear tags, and then undo.  This removes id3 tags from the
> file and writes FLAC tags back (I have mp3tag configured to remove all
> tags for "Ape, Mpc, etc", and only write APEv2).
> 
> Phil

I'll try that.  I haven't gotten very far on this.  I did check the
MySQL database and confirmed that contributors.namesort isn't being
populated from ARTISTSORT.  (I experimentally manually updated a couple
records and they then sorted fine.  This is the way it should work, of
course, but it proves that the issue is with the scanner not populating
the database properly.)

I also had a look to try to figure out how the scanner code works, but
I know little about perl, and a Byzantine application like this one is
not a good place to start.  My suspicion is that the ARTISTSORT tag in
the FLAC is getting overridden by the cuesheet, either by the PERFORMER
tag for the whole disc or by the PERFORMER tag for the individual cut. 
(The code seems to convert PERFORMER into ARTIST, if I understand it
correctly.)  I'd be happy to insert an ARTISTSORT (TRACKARTISTSORT?)
into the cuesheet, but none of my digging has turned up any example of
how that could be done, if in fact there is a way to do it.


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