Still confused by Artist, Albumartist and ArtistSort

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(01-01-2021 05:15)Mangar Wrote:  First question: Is there a besser way than "Various Artists" in the AlbumArtist? With my few compilations like Metal Ballads I overwrote "Various Artists" just with the album name, in this case "Metal Ballads".

"Various Artists" is the standard approach. The album doesn't belong to any one artist so you want to tag it as such, plus you might also want to filter on compilations so it's nice to have a single value to do this with (in the absence of any other).

(01-01-2021 05:15)Mangar Wrote:  Second question: Is this by design, that MinimServer show AlbumArtist under Artists and Artists under All Artists? So someone who has mostly compiliations should use All Artists instead of Artists when browsing?

For information on Artist indexing look at https://minimserver.com/ug-browsing.html...0selection

(01-01-2021 05:15)Mangar Wrote:  Third question: How can I force MinimServer to use ArtistSort if not empty else Artist? Or is it recommended to always write the Artist in the format Surname, Firstname?

Ideally you'd tag your music with:

Artist: Gary Moore
ArtistSort: Moore, Gary
AlbumArtist: Gary Moore (or Various Artists if it belongs to a compilation)
AlbumArtistSort: Moore, Gary (or Various Artists if it belongs to a compilation)

Then in MinimServer you can use the sorted tags for sort purposes https://minimserver.com/ug-library.html#...%20sorting

reverseName is just a "get out of jail free card" if, you haven't got the actual sort tags present, you've stored the artists as Surname, Firstname and you want to display/index them in the other order :-)