cataloguing artist names

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(10-02-2014 22:58)yurkot Wrote:  nervous about screwing something up, so please humor me. I have minimserver on my synology NAS and minimwatch on my desk top task bar. I right clicked on the green note and chose properties. Then I went to Advanced and found the tagUpdate slot what do I type in the box to catalogue artists lastname, firstname?
Thanks much

You would need to create a tag update file with all your artist names in their current format and the corresponding names in 'lastname, firstname' format. It would look something like this:

@ARTIST=Paul McCartney
=ARTIST=McCartney, Paul
@ARTIST=John Eliot Gardiner
=ARTIST=Gardiner, John Eliot
@ARTIST=Herbert von Karajan
=ARTIST=Karajan, Herbert von
....etc.

or perhaps you would prefer:

@ARTIST=Herbert von Karajan
=ARTIST=von Karajan, Herbert

The examples of Gardiner and von Karajan show why this file can't be created automatically by MinimServer.

After you have created this file, you need to copy it to your NAS and put the Linux absolute pathname to the file in the tagUpdate property box and restart MinimServer.

This doesn't change any tags in your files. It just changes how the artists are shown by MinimServer.