Per another thread:
snarlydwarf;303382 Wrote: 
> SC merges ARTIST and ARTISTSORT as part of the scan process.  A single
> file with ARTISTSORT will set the sort order for every occurence of
> that artist.
> 
> (Ie, it makes no distinction between "Elvis Costello"'s with and
> without sorts defined... if any Elvis Costello track defines the
> artistsort, it will carry onto all tracks.)
> 
> So you will have to look at every track with Elvis Costello as artist
> to see if it has the sort defined.  Note that this can be defined in
> multiple ways even on mp3: not just a TXXX ARTISTSORT field, but also
> TSOP or musicbrainz tags.  It may also come from iTunes integration or
> MusicIP, I think, if you use those.

If it is true that 1 instance of an ARTISTSORT tag can set the value
for that artist across the board, I can see a problem:

-Library has 1 soundtrack album with multiple artists, ARTISTSORT tag
is set to "soundtracks" (or any other value)
-Library has an album by 1 of the soundtrack track artists, with
ARTISTSORT set to that artist (Let's say U2)
-If the scan process reads in the soundtrack first and does set the
ARTISTSORT value in the db for all U2 tracks to either "Various
Artists" or "Soundtracks" - That would explain most of my problems.


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