tagOptions?

[solanum]

I recently bought a license for MinimServer 2 and am now trying to get it set up as I wish. I've had a look at the user guide and some posts on this forum and just can't quite get things as I wish. Hopefully people don't mind if I post the question here rather than trying forever to do it myself!

At present:
"tagOptions" are: "Album.sortTags={Album, Artist}, all.ignore.sort={The}, Composer.reverseName.display, Composer.reverseName.index"
"indexTags" are: "Genre, Artist, Composer, #AudioQuality"
"itemTags" are: "AlbumArtist"

1. Classical music. I want to sort this by composer surname first, album title second.

Originally my composer tags were "firstname surname", but it seems that won't let me do what I want, so I have changed (some of) them to "surname, firstname". However, even with the above tag options, everything seems to sort by firstname. Note that I have "Artist" tagged with composer "firstname surname" and album artist tagged with "composer; soloists, conductor, orchestra".

2. Other music (rock etc.). I want to sort by artist name (excluding "The") first, album name second.

For some reason, an initial "The" is not ignored. In BubbleDS at least it is sorted artist then album. In Kazoo it is sorted by album name. I don't know why the two differ.

Finally, is there some way to have classical and rock music sorted as above when I simply select all albums link from the respective genre, or will I always have to go to composer (in classical) and/or artist (in rock) to get the behaviour I want?

Top level:

1. Genre
2. Artist
3. Composer
4. #AudioQuality
   

Second level:

1. albums
2. artist
3. composer
4. #AudioQuality
   

Classical albums:
Sorted by composer surname then album name (display is artist).

Rock/pop albums:
Sorted by artist (excluding initial 'The'), then album name.

Any tips gratefully accepted!