Compilations at end?

[simoncn]

(20-03-2019 19:47)paultaylor Wrote:  I must disagree, the trouble with this approach is its difficult to determine if an artist doesn't have a sort album artist because the sort album artist is the same or just because the user hasn't got round to entering a sort album artist.

As I said in my previous post, it is very simple to discover this with MinimServer by making ALBUMARTISTSORT an index tag.

Quote:And making this distinction for a growing music collection is unmanageable, a particular problem would be remembering to add the sort album artist as necessary when adding a new album by a particular artist.

This isn't a problem with MinimServer. If an ALBUMARTISTSORT value has been applied to the ALBUMARTIST value from any of the existing albums with the same ALBUMARTIST, it is applied automatically to the newly added album.

Quote:The memory and processing costs would surely be marginal.

If this duplication were present for every tag value in the library that could have a corresponding xxxSORT value (TITLE/TITLESORT, ALBUM/ALBUMSORT, ARTIST/ARTISTSORT, ALBUMARTIST/ALBUMARTISTSORT, COMPOSER/COMPOSERSORT, etc.), I think the overhead would be noticeable.