My issue was that a number of artists and ALL of their albums were
listed near the bottom alphabetically in the artist list of my LMS. I
couldn't figure out why but finally did and wanted to post the
solution.

I used Mp3tag software to compare the extended tags of those artists
with ones properly sorted. It turned out that the artists not properly
sorted were all part of at least one compilation disc in my library that
had "Various Artists" listed for the ARTISTSORT tag. For example- Even
though I have four Coldplay albums, because they are part of one
compilation (soundtrack) album that had the ARTISTSORT tag listed as
“Various Artists” it placed everything Coldplay in the letter V section.
This explains why they were all listed under the letter “V” (Various
Artists).

After removing the ARTISTSORT tag from the entire compilation album's
tracks and rescanning my library within LMS the problem was resolved! 

By the way, I left the ALBUMARTIST tag with “Various Artists” and
COMPILATION tag  = 1 so that I didn’t have a mess of artists with only
one track listed in my artist list. This keeps things clean and I can
play the compilation when browsing the Albums area in LMS instead.

I highly recommend the Mp3tag software. It’s free, easy to use, and will
help organize your library quickly.

I hope this information helps others down the road.

Mike


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