Tag splitting (was Slash ...)

[bill]

Personally, I hate this type of sorting. I much prefer first name last name
as it stands now. This also adds a layer of complexity that will confuse
most. If you want your artists last name first, specify them than way i.e.
Zappa, Frank. Including machinations like this generally makes the code more
complicated and harder to maintain. And then someone will want to actually
USE the carat (^) character in a name for some reason and complain that it's
not supported....

Completely MNSHO,
-bill

> 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)
>

[michael]

There is already a mechanism for (optionally) using sort order
tags. If we just parse those the same as we do the main tags we should
be fine. (Normally it works great, they just don't understand the new
tag splitting mechanism yet.)

-michael
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"bill" <wyldbill (AT) bigfoot (DOT) com> writes:
> Personally, I hate this type of sorting. I much prefer first name last name
> as it stands now. This also adds a layer of complexity that will confuse
> most. If you want your artists last name first, specify them than way i.e.
> Zappa, Frank. Including machinations like this generally makes the code more
> complicated and harder to maintain. And then someone will want to actually
> USE the carat (^) character in a name for some reason and complain that it's
> not supported....
>
> Completely MNSHO,
> -bill
>
>> 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)