Michaelwagner Wrote: > While it's a bit tough to plow through, the definitive reference, such > as it is, for id3 tags (the ones used in mp3 files) is located here: > http://www.id3.org/develop.html > > For the three "sort order" tags, here is the explanation from that web > site: > > > > > > TSOA > > The 'Album sort order' frame defines a string which should be used > > instead of the album name (TALB) for sorting purposes. E.g. an album > > named "A Soundtrack" might preferably be sorted as "Soundtrack". > > > > TSOP > > The 'Performer sort order' frame defines a string which should be used > > instead of the performer (TPE2) for sorting purposes. > > > > TSOT > > The 'Title sort order' frame defines a string which should be used > > instead of the title (TIT2) for sorting purposes. > > > > > If you like last names first for Artists, you might chose to code > TSOP as > "Dylan, Bob" and "Petty, Tom" or even "Petty, Tom & the > Heartbreakers". > I think the comment on TSOP on id3.org has a little typo that could be somewhat misleading. It states correctly that TSOP should be used instead of the performer string for sorting purposes. But performer is TPE1, not TPE2 (Band).
Not having a sort tag related to TPE2 (Band) is a major flaw. If you include band names (TPE2) in the artist list, there's no way to have them correctly sorted. If you happen to have at least one other album by the same artist as performer (TPE1) with appropriate TSOP tag then there are two possible ways how the artist will be displayed depending on the scan order of the involved albums: 1) If the album with artist e.g. "Horace Silver" as TPE2 gets scanned last by slimserver you will get two artist entries: "Silver, Horace" and "Horace Silver" 2) If any album with artist "Horace Silver" as TPE1 and "Silver, Horace" as TSOP gets scanned last, you will end up with only one entry "Silver, Horace" Slimserver seems to scan folders in alphabetical order recursive. So you have to make sure that TPE2 tagged albums are never last alphabetically within one artist's directory (if you follow the artist/album "standard) to avoid 1) above. If someone knows a better solution I'm eager to know about it. -s. -- slimpy ------------------------------------------------------------------------ slimpy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1524 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20642 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
