Sorting Order of tags changed after last update

[DavidHB]

(05-08-2014 08:34)bruemmer Wrote:  Any ideas how to return to the old behaviour without changing all subgenres?

While Simon's reply explains the underlying issue very clearly, it does not specifically answer this question, though the answer clearly is, "You can't".

Fortunately (at least if you are a Windows user), MP3Tag provides a very straightforward solution. In MP3 Tag (which can select folders recursively, that is including all sub-folders), you can select the whole of your music library at one go, though if your library is large, the MP3Tag grid will take a long time to populate (so you may want to deal with larger libraries in several chunks). Select one line of the Grid, then press Ctrl-A to select the whole of the Grid. Quick Actions (Shift-Alt-6) includes a Replace action. In the present instance, in the dialog for this action, you would select the Genre field, '~' as the character to replace, and your replacement character. All relevant music files will then be changed in one go. However, press the 'Save' button before you leave the selection, just to be sure. And MP3Tag has an Undo command (the standard Ctrl-Z) if you mess things up.

Unfortunately, as is clear from the table to which Simon linked, selecting a replacement character for the '~' may not be entirely straightforward if you are working in a language other than English, as many accented characters have values higher than 0x0100. If you can avoid using genre or sub-genre names that begin with accented or modified characters, Simon's advice will work. Indeed, there are some useful possible replacement characters in the 0x00A0/0x00B0 range (such as '¶') which come before 0x0100 but after the standard alphanumerics.

I hope this helps.

David