Multiple Artists in Various Artists Album

[simoncn]

(18-04-2014 08:57)gnomus Wrote:  I'm a little surprised about this and I wonder if I am trying to do something unusual. (As you know I am new to this.) My intention was simply to "order" my virtual albums in the same way that I have my CDs ordered on my shelves - that is by the surname of the composer.) When I installed dBPoweramp, I found that I had the option of including a tag called ComposerSort - this did reverse the names, and I assumed, therefore, that that was there to allow for what I want to do.

I am not, however, "locked into" this way of doing this - I am just about to start ripping the classical CDs. If there is a better way of doing this than the one I have in mind then I would be very pleased to consider this. Ripping the "non-classical" CDs was tedious enough, and it seems that the classical ripping is going to be even more labour intensive.

Thanks again for your ongoing interest, patience and assistance, with this and my other queries.

I wasn't aware that dBpoweramp had the capability to automatically reverse the names by specifying ComposerSort. Given this, it is possible that there is a dBpoweramp setting to do this for Composer as well. You could ask about this on the dBpoweramp forum.

If dBpoweramp can't do reversal for the Composer tag, you could populate the ComposerSort tag in dBpoweramp and then do one of the following:

1) Use Mp3tag to batch convert the ComposerSort values into Composer values

2) Use the aliasTags property of MinimServer to use tagged ComposerSort values as if they were Composer values. The setting for this is:

ComposerSort:Composer, Composer:nil