idowantapickle;361983 Wrote: 
> Was there not an issue a while back that if the first time the scanner
> encountered an artist it used that artistsort for all subsequesnt tags
> for that artist?
> 
> So for example, I couldn't figure out why Fleetwood Mac were appearing
> under 'B' in my artists list.
> 
> It turned out that I had a fleetwood mac track on some blues
> compilation that some bright spark had filled in an ARTISTSORT tag of
> 'Blues' on musicbrainz.  Because I normally use easytag, which doesn't
> show artistsort, I didn't spot this.
> 
> The upshot of all this is that the database scan forever associated
> ARTIST:Fleetwood Mac with ARTISTSORT:Blues, even though I have 7 FM
> albums with the correct artistsort tag.
> 
> My memory is quite hazy on this, but I know that I sat down one night
> and went through every artist that was in the wrong place and reset all
> the artistsort tags and did a full 'wipe database and start again' scan
> and they were all ok after that.
> 
> Where do U2 appear in your list as a matter of interest, and do you
> have them listed on any albums that are compilations etc?

Indeed - I do have soundtracks and compilations with U2 tracks on them
(When you have that much music, you have compilations with almost all
artists represented).

If indeed having ARTISTSORT defined for a compilation album causes the
problem you describe - that could go a long way to explaining my
issues.

Seems like a bug - I'd think the idea of ARTISTSORT for an album would
be to define what artist name to sort that album under.  

I'll try deleting the ARTISTSORT tags from some of my compilations as a
test to see if it helps.


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