interesting idea. I never even knew about artistsort, probably because my collection was initially designed for use on Phatbox, and because it is about 50/50 flac and mp3.
so, I have tagged all my artists (where appropriate) Last Name, First Name. Perfect for sort order, not so great for display (either when browsing or especially when playing). On the Phatbox (which has the cool feature of using AT&T Natural Voices to enable voice announcement of tracks), I wrote some perl code to flip around the artists with last-name-first before generating the voice via text-to-speech. Seems it would be straightforward to do something similar here -- set up a regexp table to map "LN, FN" artists to "FN LN". I'm not sure (1) *where* that belongs (plugin or basic feature, player or server); (2) how best to control it; or (3) whether it's possible to configure things so it applies only to the display-when-playing mode and not the search/browse modes. My first suggestion I think would be to create this as an alternate screensaver for the device. So when it goes into "Now Playing" mode, it comes up using the plugin that tweaks the artist name if necessary. -- mkosma _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
