the following discussion mostly applies to Classical Music libraries (FLAC, DSD, MP3) and SORT type tags......
Hello, this seems to be the place (newbie here) for sharing experience, and wondering about the intricacies of name tag sorts in LMS - Here's my experience with Classical album tracks: usually 1 composer, but several Album Artists (e.g. 1 soloist + 1 conductor + 1 orchestra, or a duet, trio, etc.....). starting from a situation where all composer and artist names in tags had been recorded as "<First> <Last>" in my music library, and wishing to have LMS display them in alphabetical order of LAST names first, here's what I did, half unsuccessfully I must say: for COMPOSERS(usually 1 per track): I added a COMPOSERSORT tag (tool: Foobar2000, Mp3tag or both together, Foobar has a nice library management, Mp3tag has a bettter manual tagging interface), and populated that tag with "<Last>, <First>" names. This produced a totally satisfying result in the LMS GUI (or Squeezelite-X, or Orange Squeeze and the like), with the proviso that the new COMPOSER list is sorted by last names BUT still displayed (as originally recorded) as "<First> <Last>" names. Not bad, just takes getting used to looking at the right end of each line, but it's still rather pleasant to have these names listed as they usually appear everywhere (<First> <Last>), rather than as some classroom listing (<Last>, <First>). Note: in some instances, there may be 2 composers per track (e.g. Bach/Busoni or Beethoven/Liszt, or Mussorgsky/Ravel, etc....) - I have found that if I enter 2 names in the COMPOSERSORT field (with the adequate separator in between), LMS gets lost and doesn't know how to correctly "link" the "<First> <Last>" items in the COMPOSER field to the corresponding "<Last>, <First>" names in the COMPOSERSORT field; so the result is inconsistent with the overall composer sort, names appear wherever they can ! Really too bad ! Yet such instances are rare....... (not a big decision to keep the 1 composer that was the more "meaningful" of the 2.) for ALBUM ARTISTS: based on the decent result of the Composer proceduree above, I did the same thing with Album Artists, using the ALBUMARTISTSORT tag. I discovered soon enough that DSD tracks are mishandled by both Foobar and Mp3tag (can't handle more than 1 artist in the tag), but the worst was that LMS was totally mishandling even FLAC tracks which contained multiple Album Artists (same issue as multiple composers above). THe result was a total mess ! I had to delete all the ALBUMARTISTSORT fields I had painstakingly created...... So I wonder why there isn't an adequate syntax in tag management which would unambiguously associate pairs of names, or "sets" of names more generally....... Also, I wonder if maybe I should brutally update all the artist and composer names in the library to put them in the "<Last>, <First>" format, which would settle the matter..... Your comments and suggestions arre most welcome ! JLT Paris FR home/office music network: Synology DS214P, 3xSqueezeboxTouch (rooms), 2xSqueezeRadios (kitchen, bath), SOTM SMS200 streamer + OrangeSqueeze on Android tablet (living-rm), Sqeezelite-X on desktop workstation (office). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jlt1947's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=69866 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=113834 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
