This is something that is entirely in the control of the individual user by employing the desired tags.
ARTIST tags are what is displayed. Slim does no alterations to this. ARTISTSORT (TSOP, etc) is a SORT tag that will be used in preference to the ARTIST tag if it is present. This tag should normally not be present in your files. Slim will normalize ARTIST for sorting purposes if there is no ARTISTSORT tag (as mentioned in the example of removing punctuation and designated articles). By tagging your own ARTISTSORT you can refine or redefine tracks will be sorted. For instance, I tag all my 10,000 Maniacs with an ARTISTSORT of "TEN THOUSAND MANIACS" to make them sort under "T" - I don't alter the ARTIST tag because I still want to see entries listed as "10,000 Maniacs" Having an check-box option to "display artist name as contents of ARTISTSORT tag if present" would allow what is being requested in the first post without using the normalized sort version, but it would be redundant. Since it would always be displayed according to this preference, you might as well just alter the ARTIST tag to match your style. So for instance, "David Bowie" becomes "Bowie, David" Now the only the only reason I can see for having that option would be if it were made more granular still by making it a pop-up with multiple options: "display artist name as contents of ARTISTSORT tag if present" with options for "in all instances" and "only for browse lists, but not for track/info display" But I'd consider this one of those esoteric features that would do more harm than good to the product. Just tag your music the way you want it. -- MelonMonkey Bruno *'Twisted Melon - Fine Mac OS Software' (http://twistedmelon.com) | 'mira - Personal Control for your Apple Remote' (http://twistedmelon.com)* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MelonMonkey's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8466 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35822 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
