I don't know about anyone else here, but my artist directory names are
named so that everything sorts nicely. I've done this since the late
'90s so when browsing to play MP3s on my computer, everything is in the
right order. e.g.:
Amos, Tori
Bjork
Bowie, David
BT
Cash, Johnny
etc.
But my ARTIST tags (for display in Winamp, etc.) are the normalized
version (Tori Amos, Björk, David Bowie, etc.) This seems to be what
everyone else does.
When I first set up my Squeezebox about eight months ago, I was
initially dismayed that browsing artists didn't work well because they
were sorted incorrectly. I did some reading and discovered information
about ARTISTSORT, but dang that sounded like a lot of tagging, and at
the time the information I found was scant.
Somewhere in there I discovered the wonderful "Browse Music Folder"
option on slimserver, and that is still what I'm using today.
Everything is in the right order. No wierdness with albums from one
artist being listed under two names ("first last" and "last, first"
because of older files that are inconsistently tagged). Certainly I
want to have everything tagged correctly at some point (with ARTISTSORT
and ALBUMSORT (by date) tags), but having "Browse Music Folder"
certainly diminishes the impetus to do so, allowing me to work on the
issue at my leisure.
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eq72521
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