I typically consider the most recent incarnation of the artist's name
the canonical name (I believe it's John Mellencamp these days).  The
canonical name is the name used for browsing, filing under, etc.  Then
I do this (using an older album as an example):

ARTIST=John Cougar
ARTISTSORT=Mellencamp, John Cougar
ALBUMARTIST=John Cougar Mellencamp

Tagged like this, when browsing by artists, all JCM/JC/JM albums will
be under the same artist, sorted under M.  When playing the tracks,
however, the artist name will show how it was at the time the album was
recorded (which I actually like to see).  If you don't like the
historical information, you could just re-tag everything using the
canonical name.

This system works fine IF you have an album in your collection where
the ARTIST=canonical name with the correct ARTISTSORT.  Otherwise, it
will sort it under J.  Canonical artist support isn't really complete
in SlimServer until it supports ALBUMARTISTSORT, and there's a bug
filed for this already.


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