1 Topic by thisisryan55 (edited by thisisryan55 2012-08-01 17:36:15)

  • Registered: 2012-08-01

Topic: Itunes Sorting By Artist

Whenever i tag music, and add it to itunes, and try to sort by artist, it puts the sorting artist as "Last Name, First Name". How do i solve this without having to go to all of the artist individually and changing them?

  • From: Singapore
  • Registered: 2007-02-13

Re: Itunes Sorting By Artist

If you want to completely avoid using proper sort names, add a tagger script to Options > Advanced > scripting like

$set(artistsort,%artist%)
$set(albumartistsort,%albumartist%)

If you only want to avoid LastName, Firstname sort names but still want "Band, The" type sort names you'll need something more sophisticated than the above.

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3 Reply by psychoadept (edited by psychoadept 2012-09-29 05:56:07)

  • Registered: 2010-09-07

Re: Itunes Sorting By Artist

I am trying to fix the same problem.  I've tried telling Picard to preserve artistsort and albumartistsort, but it still wants to put something in there when the tag was blank to begin with.  I've tried that AND clearing all tags AND using $unset(artistsort), $unset(albumartistsort), and it STILL writes them.  What's going on?

Edit: This seems to only happen on some albums.  Others come out as expected.  ???