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(03-07-2018 15:15)simoncn Wrote:  A better approach that doesn't have these limitations is to set the tagValue property to Artist.value.sort={ArtistSort}. This requires you to have ArtistSort tags in your files as well as Artist tags.

If you are using this tagValue approach, you can then browse by Genre followed by Artist (or vice versa) to get a sorted list of artists filtered by genre.

Thanks again for your help.

I'm afraid that using "Artist.value.sort={ArtistSort}" just doesn't seem to be working for me. I really don't know what I'm doing wrong, as all the other tags/options seem to behave as described in the documentation. I'm using "Browse by Folder" in Lightning DS, Lumin and also the iOS Foobar player. All give the same results.

Right now, I have the following set up:

Quote:indexTags: Artist, Genre

itemTags: ArtistSort, Composer, Date

tagOptions:
ArtistSort.ignore.sort={The, A}
Album.sortTags={ArtistSort}
Album.ignore.sort={The, A}

tagValues:
ArtistSort.default={Artist}
Artist.value.sort={ArtistSort}

This makes everything work perfectly if I browse Genre > Albums. If I go to Jazz and choose "Albums", I can find John Coltrane under "C", not under "J", and the "ignore" option works too, so "A Love Supreme" appears between "Live in Seattle" and "Lush Life." The ignore option on "ArtistSort" is also effective. Sometimes it is useful to browse in this way, so I'm pleased that it works.

However, what I really want is to go Genre > Artists and then get an appropriately sorted list. Instead I just get a strictly alphabetical list, as if the "display" value is being used for sorting as well. I really don't understand why this is the case, since when I view by Album the ArtistSort tag is clearly being interpreted correctly (including the "ignore" option). Surely if "Artist.value.sort" is being set to "ArtistSort", then this should affect the order that Artists display in?

I have to fill "ArtistSort" with "Artist" for all the items that don't have an "ArtistSort" tag specified, since the albums themselves are sorted only according to "ArtistSort." Is that maybe causing the problem somehow?