Two Artist Albums

[GavinB]

Any tips on how to deal with two artist albums?

For example, Road to Escondido by JJ Cale and Eric Clapton.

I'd like to be able to browse to it via either Cale or Clapton (both under C).

My previous would allow AlbumArtist to be JJ Cale; Eric Clapton with Cale, JJ; Clapton, Eric as the sort string.

(Other examples are PJ Harvey & John Parrish, Bryan Ferry & Roxy Music

Thanks

Gavin

[simoncn]

You should tag this with two Artist tags:

ARTIST=JJ Cale
ARTIST-Eric Clapton

and two Artist Sort tags:

ARTIST SORT=Cale, JJ
ARTIST SORT=Clapton, Eric

MinimServer matches Artist Sort to Artist in the order in which the tags appear in the file.

[GavinB]

Thanks, Simon A stupid question, but how would I do that? I don’t think the tag editor I use would do that.

[simoncn]

Most tag editors can do this. Which tag editor do you use?

[GavinB]

The one that comes with dbPoweramp. Select the track(s) to edit in Windows Explorer then right click and choose Edit ID Tags.

[simoncn]

This tag editor uses a semicolon as the separator to specify multiple values, so you need to set Artist to:

JJ Cale; Eric Clapton

and Artist Sort to:

Cale, JJ; Clapton, Eric

The semicolon is not part of the tag value in the file. It is the user-visible representation that your tag editor uses to show multiple values.

This doesn't work for AlbumArtist (with MinimServer) because MinimServer doesn't allow multiple values for AlbumArtist.

[GavinB]

Ah, think I’d tried that in AlbumArtist. I’ll switch to Artist.

[Peter StreamMagic]

Inspired by this thread and having had some comments from some of my friends (why is Zappa under the F from Frank?) I tried to get Artist Sort to work.
I can not get it to work.
The only way was to add ArtistSort to Index and use ReverseName.
Problem is then ArtistArt does not show up and an extra entry in Index is not what I really want.

So the question is how to use ArtistSort as discribed in this thread (for both single and multiple artists)?

[simoncn]

You should do what it says in the previous posts. Get it working with a single artist first. For multiple artists, make sure you specify them in the way that your tag editor expects. Some tag editors use semicolon as separator and others do it differently. For example, Mp3tag uses \\.

[Peter StreamMagic]

That is exactly what I tried.
I first did try this with a single artist Adam Cohen- Cohen, Adam.
I use both MP3tag and DBpoweeramp.
All other experiments I did because I did not get any results.