sciurius wrote: > After reading several threads about using tags to sort artist names, I > was wondering: what is the appropriate way to obtain the following > behaviour: > > * Artists are shown as conventional, e.g. "Elvis Presley" > * Artists are sorted on family name, e.g. "Presley, Elvis" > > I have complete control over my music library, so I can change whatever > I want but I'd like to stick to ID3v2 tags.
This is very easy to do. Set the ARTIST field to "Elvis Presley" and set the ARTISTSORT field to "Presley, Elvis". If you use ALBUMARTIST, there's also an ALBUMARTISTSORT field. In ID3v2 these fields are actually the following frames: ARTIST = TPE1 ARTISTSORT = TSOP ALBUMARTIST = TPE2 ALBUMARTISTSORT = TSO2 In LMS, there's a setting under My Music > Compilations that should be set to "Treat TPE2 MP3 tag as Album Artist". LMS will never display the strings contained in the _SORT fields. It just uses them to sort the other. You can do some odd things with these fields, if you like. For instance, if Elvis was your favorite artist, you may want him to appear first in the artist list, so you could set ARTISTSORT to something like "000000". ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=100160 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list ripping@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
