Compilations at end?

[paultaylor]

(20-03-2019 00:11)simoncn Wrote:  You can use a tag update file to do this without needing to edit any tag values. The file should contain:

@ALBUMARTIST=Various Artists
+ALBUMARTISTSORT=zzz

With this tag update file active, MinimServer will add the tag ALBUMARTISTSORT=zzz when scanning a file containing the tag ALBUMARTIST=Various Artists.

You also need to add AlbumArtistSort to itemTags so that MinimServer reads the AlbumArtistSort tag and you need to set the tagValue property to AlbumArtist.value.sort={AlbumArtistSort} so that MinimServer uses the value zzz when sorting the album artist named "Various Artists".

Interesting, I did not realize that you could do this.

A couple of questions, in your example it would work as expected as long as you didn't actually have any ALBUMARTISTSORT tag fields in your files. If you did I assume they would then be used for sorting your files which would be fine if they all audio files had the field, but if some did and some did not then some files would use ALBUMARTISTSORT and some just ALBUMARTIST which would be confusing.

Use of zzz assumes all artists stored in English, there may be a better default then zzz that would work with all languages.