My own personal feeling (which I think you were getting at) is that if you fill an artist sort gag (or a variant of it), only that track should get sorted that way. The DB is essentially defined by tags only, so it shouldn't infer tags because artist sort is set one way in one file. Yet, the server does that to some extent.
Your example for Miles Davis is perfect. He is one example where I do use the artist sort variable, and I am usually thinking about it when I do. My bigger problem has come in from soundtracks or duets where I'm not caring about the artist sort variable. I once had an instance where all my Pearl Jam music was sorting under various artists because a soundtrack appearance labeled them for sorting under various artists. It took me hours and many rebuilds of my SB database to realize that one track, which wasn't in my Pearl Jam folder because it was on a soundtrack, had this artist sort field. Even worse was that all other Pearl Jam tracks by the end had been given Pearl Jam as a value in the artist sort field, but the server still felt that the correct sort should be the "Various Artists" value that one file had. I don't think I could ever fully understand the internal logic that led to that. Oh well... since that incident, I've slowly started populating my artist sort fields for all artists, even those that don't really need it. It's pretty easy with MP3 tag to automate, but it's a bit dangerous too, thus my slow processing. Multiple artists tend to be the trickiest in both MP3 tag (for actions) and from metadata. Tracks with 2 artists are often given one artist sort (online tag sources), which is then applied to both artists. I usually have to correct this manually, which isn't always easy. Sometimes, I feel like I am spending more time organizing my media files rather than listening to them. -- emalvick ------------------------------------------------------------------------ emalvick's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35382 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=91571 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
