Bugzilla – Bug 2311
Incorrect Artist sorting
Last modified: 2008-09-15 14:36:01 UTC
I have a load of artists that have been incorrectly sorted. I have a sorted list of artists where the files do not use an ARTISTSORT tag, followed by another list of artists with the ARTISTSORT tag. e.g. I have an artist "Zero 7", which is then followed by Tori Amos (ARTISTSORT="Amos, Tori").
Can you post a couple of files that use artists that sort incorrectly? Also, post details on where you are seeing this (web ui, player) and how you navigated to that place. thanks.
Created attachment 921 [details] Screenshot of Browse Artists In this screenshot, you can see the end of my A-Z sorted artists, followed by my artists where I have started to enter ARTISTSORT tags.
I see the same problem with Browse Artists both in the Web UI and Player UI. Here are the Metadata tags that I have in one of the songs listed under one of those incorrectly sorted artists - Beth Hirsch (4 songs, no album): ARTIST = Beth Hirsch ARTISTSORT = Hirsch, Beth TITLE = Come A Day The other three songs have the same tags, except for the title. These tracks are the simplest example files I could find. I will email one of the .mp3 files to mailto:dean@slimdevices.com.
Phil - can you attach your slimserversql.db file? Thanks.
Phil - looks like you have a UTF8 BOM inserted at the beginning of the ARTISTSORT tags. 'ARTISTSORT' => "\x{feff}Hirsch, Beth", I can put in a fix for that - but you may want to just fix your files.
Fixed in subversion change 4691
I am using Mp3Tag to edit tags. I can't see any option to change encoding formats. I can't see the BOM character, or any way to remove it. Is it incorrect to use a UTF-8 BOM in a tag? If so, I can try to contact the author. If it's there for that tag, I guess it could be present for any tag. Does your fix ignore it for any tag?
It isn't incorrect - but UTF-8 rarely uses a BOM. What is interesting is that it's only being added to the ARTISTSORT / TPOS tag.
I have had a look at the history for Mp3Tag. There's been changes in v.2.33 - full Unicode support. It seems it has been specifically changed to include UTF-8 BOM now. http://www.mp3tag.de/download/mp3tagversion.en.html A lot of people use this editor in Windows, as it is free.
Ok - well, my change should fix things. Please let me know if you see anything else wierd.
Updated to latest SVN and did a full rescan. Working well now, thanks.