Artist and album sorting tags
Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2011 7:26 am
A common request is to order artist like The Beatles under B and no in the T:
https://sourceforge.net/apps/ideatorren ... t/idea/32/
Some programs allow you specify some initial words that are omitted when sorting like: the, a, an. But this has problems because for instance in German die is an article, but it's also a verb in English. Also you may want to order artists by the surname instead of their first name.
I think that the best option would be to use two tags that already exist for these (I don't have the exact names now, but they should be easy to find). There you can write the way you want things to be sorted and by default is the same as the respective artist/album. You may even write something different like the year.
I found this article that describes how it's done in iTunes and it's exactly what I was thinking.
http://www.macworld.com/article/155173/ ... _tags.html
By the way, that could also be a way to deal with the problem that now letters with accent are send to the end of the list, but as it was suggested, I think it's a collation issue.
https://sourceforge.net/apps/ideatorren ... t/idea/32/
Some programs allow you specify some initial words that are omitted when sorting like: the, a, an. But this has problems because for instance in German die is an article, but it's also a verb in English. Also you may want to order artists by the surname instead of their first name.
I think that the best option would be to use two tags that already exist for these (I don't have the exact names now, but they should be easy to find). There you can write the way you want things to be sorted and by default is the same as the respective artist/album. You may even write something different like the year.
I found this article that describes how it's done in iTunes and it's exactly what I was thinking.
http://www.macworld.com/article/155173/ ... _tags.html
By the way, that could also be a way to deal with the problem that now letters with accent are send to the end of the list, but as it was suggested, I think it's a collation issue.