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[simoncn]

(23-05-2014 20:17)Pastim Wrote:  I thought I had been clear, but obviously not. Apologies.

I want to see the Composer tag (index and display), sorted by the ComposerSort tag. ("I want to use my own Composer tag for index and display. I just can't get the index value to show in the sort value position in the lists of Composers."). If this isn't clear I am probably failing to understand something.

Thanks for the clarification. What you said previously was "....what I want to change is the index value....". It was the reference to "change the index value" that confused me. As I understand it now, you want to change the sort value for Composer by using the ComposerSort tag and you want to leave the display value and index value for Composer unchanged.

Quote:I'm sorry, but the quotations still confuse me, because the section including the bullets directly addresses the situation where both composer and composersort tags are populated (as in my case, so shouldn't I read and understand this?). Maybe I'm missing some sub-headings, but I'm still rather baffled. The quotes are:

- When each audio file is read, MinimServer checks to see whether the file has a Composer tag and a ComposerSort tag. If the file has both these tags, MinimServer uses the sort value from the ComposerSort tag to set the sort value for the Composer tag and leaves the display and index values for the Composer tag unchanged. If the file has a ComposerSort tag and doesn't have a Composer tag, MinimServer uses the ComposerTag's sort and display values as the default sort and display values of the Composer tag. If the file has a Composer tag and doesn't have a ComposerSort tag, MinimServer uses the Composer tag value for displaying and sorting.
-The above settings will use the original value of the ComposerSort tag as the index value, which means index entries will be shown as "lastname(s), firstname(s)". If you prefer to see index entries as "firstname(s) lastname(s)", you can use the tagValue setting ComposerSort.reverseName.display.index instead of ComposerSort.reverseName.display.

So I'm struggling to understand which bit of the instructions I should read and which I shouldn't.

These bullets are part of a section titled 'Reversing last names and first names'. Perhaps this title is the source of the confusion. This section is about using the reverseName option to automatically reverse last names and first names. As you are not doing this, this entire section doesn't apply in your case. To avoid further confusion, I will change the section title to 'Using the reverseName option'.

Quote:I'll leave the warnings for now and try to handle one thing at a time!

In terms of solving the problem you are having, it sounds like the only tagOptions or tagValue setting that you need is Composer.value.sort={ComposerSort}. I'll try this myself to confirm that it's working. If you have any other settings in tagOptions or tagValue, it would be worth removing these to make sure they aren't related to the problem.

Just a thought: did you restart MinimServer after changing these settings? This is required for the changes to come into effect.

Edit: I just saw your latest post. I'm glad to hear you've found the cause of the problem.