"and" vs "&" in artist names

[till burkert]

Quote:This isn't directly related to your question, and does require re-tagging, but MinimServer's .displayFormat={} functionality allows you to present a single, canonical name for each artist in indexes and search, whilst displaying the credited name in album and track listings. I use this approach and MusicBrainz Picard makes it easy.

My tagging setup:

Code:

ALBUM              = From Her to Eternity
ALBUMARTIST        = Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
ALBUMARTISTDISPLAY = Nick Cave featuring the Bad Seeds

ALBUM              = The Firstborn Is Dead
ALBUMARTIST        = Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
ALBUMARTISTDISPLAY = Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

ALBUM              = Kicking Against the Pricks
ALBUMARTIST        = Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
ALBUMARTISTDISPLAY = Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds

The ALBUMARTIST tag contains the standardized name and ALBUMARTISTDISPLAY the credited.

MinimServer configuration:

Code:

tagFormat: Albumartist.displayformat={$albumartistdisplay}

Thanks, maybe that's the easiest way to accomplish what I want.

What I did before I saw your post was adding ARTISTSORT tags "Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds" to albums credited to "Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds", together with the following configuration:

indexTags: Artist, *RecentAdded, *RecentPlayed, #AudioData, #AudioFormat
itemTags: ArtistSort
tagValue: Artist.value.sort={ArtistSort}

I rescanned my library, but I still have two separate artists, "Nick Cave & ..." and "Nick Cave And ...".

Can you spot what I did wrong?