Composition sorting (and Haydn symphonies)

[simoncn]

(17-04-2014 03:00)magister Wrote:  I'm in the process of ripping the complete Haydn symphonies that I just bought as a boxed set. That's 107 symphonies spread over 37 CDs. The issue of getting works to sort in "natural" order (i.e., 1 - 5 - 10 not 1 - 10 - 5) has come up before here. In this thread winxi explains how to address the problem if the album title is also the title of the work. In my situation, I'm using Composition and Group tags since each CD has multiple symphonies on it.

Is the best solution to create a CompositionSort tag, along the lines of the ComposerSort and AlbumSort tags? CompositionSort would have the padded numbers, while Composition would have the regular format. Then I would include CompositionSort:Composition under IndexTags and Composition under ItemTags -- is that right?

Thanks - magister

I don't think this will do what you are hoping for. It isn't possible to sort compositions (in the Composition index list) using some other tag. Also, the control point display of the composition name uses the Group tag, not the Composition tag.

The closest you can get at present to what you want is to use Symphony 001 (etc) in the Composition tag and Symphony 1 (etc.) in the Group tag. You don't need a CompositionSort tag and you don't need to change indexTags or itemTags.