Ignore tag not working

[simoncn]

(05-09-2014 02:18)bplexico Wrote:  Update - I got this to work properly with my Lightning DS control point.

Turns out I needed to set tagOptions to "Album.sortTags={Album, Artist}, artist.ignore.*={The}"

With this change, "The Beatles" now sorts by "B"

With this change, "The Beatles" is now displayed as "Beatles, The"

Question, is there a way to modify the tagOptions such that "Beatles, The" shows up as "The Beatles" and yet still sorts under "B"?

By doing this, you have worked around the problem of the control point ignoring the sort order sent by MinimServer. As you are now sending the index value of "The Beatles" to the control point as "Beatles, The", the control point is sorting it under its first letter B.

Quote:I know I can use either a wildcard, display, sort or index. I am currently using the wildcard, if I use a combination of sort & index but not display would this do what I want?

ie

Album.sortTags={Album, Artist}, artist.ignore.display,sort={The}

or

Album.sortTags={Album, Artist}, artist.ignore.index,sort={The}

The first won't work because it will send the index value as "The Beatles". I think the second would work if you fix the typo of having a comma instead of a period:

Album.sortTags={Album, Artist}, artist.ignore.index.sort={The}

This will send the index value as "Beatles, The", so you'll still see this in the index. It will send the display value as "The Beatles", so you will see this in the album list and on the Now Playing screen. Given the limitations of your control point, this is the best that can be achieved.