krokodil;206569 Wrote: > You may have them sorted anyway you like. My point is that I want to see > the key the list is sorted by when I'm browsing through the sorted list. > There is a big difference in looking at a bunch of cd:s and looking at a > screen with one line at the time.
There's one fairly significant problem with using the "sortname" as stored in the database as a display string - it's a normalized version of either the ARTIST tag value or (if present) the ARISTSORT tag value. This is a string that has had punctuation removed, has been tranformed into all caps, and has had "articles to ignore" removed. Some examples: The Beatles -> BEATLES 10,000 Maniacs -> 10 000 MANIACS J.J. Cale -> J J Cale So, as you can probably see, it's not really fit for display purposes. It sounds like what you want to do, if you want first name, last name sorting and wish to also have the same presented, is to use only ARTIST tags, with the desired sort order and skip the ARTISTSORT tags. ARTIST=Cash, Johnny will be sorted on "CASH JOHNNY" and displayed as "Cash, Johnny". -- JJZolx Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35822 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
