Indexing with ArtistSort

[bganthem]

(11-03-2018 23:23)bganthem Wrote:  

(11-03-2018 22:27)simoncn Wrote:  Thanks for this. It should be quite simple to achieve what you want. All you need to do is set the following properties:

indexTags - Artist, Date, Genre, All Artists, Composer, Rating, AlbumArtist
itemTags – ArtistSort
tagOptions - Album.sortTags={Album, +Date}
tagValue - Artist.value.index.sort={ArtistSort}

and make the tag changes you described as "desired result".

Thank you, Simon, for your help and rapidity. I will implement the changes and try them out on both systems. Unfortunately I have to travel to get to the Naim setup and am not sure when that will be. Meanwhile I will start modifying the tags to fit the new scheme and see if it improves Lightning DS responsiveness.

I'm delighted to say that your recommended settings work perfectly (of course), though not before I'd ironed out a discrepancy in my 'ArtistSort' tags which it appears dbPoweramp wrote a 'Artist Sort'.

I now have a second query about the handling of compilation albums in the Album index display. They show up with multiple entries, one for each Artist. So, for example, the index for the album 'American Roots Collection' displays the AlbumArtist 'Smithsonian Folkways' in 20 instances. Opening an instance identifies the Artist and the track(s) they perform, which is fine. But what I would like to see in the Album index is a single instance of the album, coupled with AlbumArtist where present or ArtistSort in other cases. I've tried various possible fixes, somewhat stymied by tagValue apparently being unavailable for 'Album' index tags (even though I have added Album to either indexTag or itemTag when trialling) and 'merge' not achieving the desired result. I'd be very grateful if you can suggest a way through this.

Desired result: Album index shows AlbumArtist if present; ArtistSort if not. Album display and Now Playing can continue to show Artist.