Multiple Artists in Various Artists Album

[DavidHB]

As matters stand, if you want to sort composers by last name and display them in 'natural' first name, last name order, you will need both a Composer Tag for the natural display and a ComposerSort tag for the indexing. IndexTags with then include A 'ComposerSort:Composer' entry, and itemTags will include 'Composer'

Simon has said that, as a future enhancement to MinimServer, he intends to provide a natural display option for Composer tags formatted in last name, first name order. This will be a welcome change, as it will allow users to dispense with the ComposerSort tag. But all Composer tags will still need to be appropriately formatted; using regular expressions in MP3Tag is, as Simon says, the obvious way to do this. Online metadata libraries typically provide composer data only in the 'natural' order, though some also provide a corresponding ComposerSort tag.

I am pretty much committed to using the two tag approach which works currently. As it is now part of my routine, it does not add enormously to my ripping and metadata entry workload.

David