Alphabetic Sort

[simoncn]

(19-03-2012 10:16)DaveWr Wrote:  Mine would be 2), I an't see where case sensitive would be appropriate. That or to be honest can just ignore the artists preference for her name in lowercase.

4) requires the use of albumsortartist, the same issue for getting rid of the 'the' problem. I don't think many people use this.

Dave

I'm planning to solve the "The" problem without requiring any extra tags such as ALBUMSORTARTIST. I've got some prototype code running, but it isn't ready to release yet. In any case, I agree that 2) is preferable to 4).

It turns out that fixing this apparently simple problem raises similar issues about international characters (e.g., accented letters) in artist names. MinimServer has some problems in this area, and it's going to be tricky implementing a reasonable solution without affecting sorting performance. I'm going to do some experimentation with different approaches.