Two Artist Albums

[simoncn]

(04-01-2022 22:50)simbun Wrote:  Wouldn't that be the norm though? Is there a reason why you'd have a different sort order for an artist depending on whether he's the album artist or artist? Apologies if I'm missing something here, and I'm half expecting the reply to start with 'With classical music...'.

I can't think of any situation where the sort value for an artist tagged as Artist would be dfferent from the sort value for the same artist tagged as AlbumArtist.

Quote:I guess I was just surprised that there was no mention of AlbumArtistSort. I also realise that if you tried to document every option and implication of how every feature was used you'd probably still be writing it, and no one would read it :-)

The advice in the user guide is intended to handle the most common cases for most users. Many users have ArtistSort tags and would expect the setting Artist.value.sort={ArtistSort} to sort the artist index correctly. They are then surprised to find some artists out of order. Eventually, they discover (probably after posting to the forum) that this is because some entries in the Artist index are for AlbumArtist tags. The advice in the user guide is intended to avoid this problem without requiring the user to have correctly populated AlbumArtistSort tags in all their files.

You are right that this doesn't work correctly in all cases, as you have described. I have added a Note at the end of the section explaining what to do in these cases.