2004-05-01, 18:15
michael wrote:
> dean blackketter <dean (AT) slimdevices (DOT) com> writes:
> > The latest nightly release removes this "feature" and adds an option
> > that allows you to specify what characters you want to use to indicate
> > multiple artists or genres.
>
> This is pretty handy. Personally, I found '&' to be a particularly
> useful choice, ...
>
> I did notice however that it breaks sorting by the "sort order"
> tags. ...
I had the same reaction. I have been using the TSOP tag to sort certain artists by last name, but this doesn't work well if there is more than one artist in the Artist tag. Therefore, I have a proposal: allow for the optional use of a sort-order separator in the Artist tag so that you can specify a separate sort-order for each artist in this multi-artist field. For example, this idea could work like this:
Separator Choices:
Multi-artist separator = &
Sort-order separator = ^
Song Tagging:
Artist: B.B. ^King & Eric ^Clapton
Title: Riding with the King
(this means that B.B. King should be sorted as King, B.B. and Eric Clapton should be sorted as Clapton, Eric)
Display Format:
TITLE (ARTIST)
Browse Artists:
Eric Clapton
B.B. King
(the artist are sorted by last name)
Now Playing:
Riding with the King (B.B. King & Eric Clapton)
(the sort-order separator character is dropped when displaying the Artist tag)
> dean blackketter <dean (AT) slimdevices (DOT) com> writes:
> > The latest nightly release removes this "feature" and adds an option
> > that allows you to specify what characters you want to use to indicate
> > multiple artists or genres.
>
> This is pretty handy. Personally, I found '&' to be a particularly
> useful choice, ...
>
> I did notice however that it breaks sorting by the "sort order"
> tags. ...
I had the same reaction. I have been using the TSOP tag to sort certain artists by last name, but this doesn't work well if there is more than one artist in the Artist tag. Therefore, I have a proposal: allow for the optional use of a sort-order separator in the Artist tag so that you can specify a separate sort-order for each artist in this multi-artist field. For example, this idea could work like this:
Separator Choices:
Multi-artist separator = &
Sort-order separator = ^
Song Tagging:
Artist: B.B. ^King & Eric ^Clapton
Title: Riding with the King
(this means that B.B. King should be sorted as King, B.B. and Eric Clapton should be sorted as Clapton, Eric)
Display Format:
TITLE (ARTIST)
Browse Artists:
Eric Clapton
B.B. King
(the artist are sorted by last name)
Now Playing:
Riding with the King (B.B. King & Eric Clapton)
(the sort-order separator character is dropped when displaying the Artist tag)