Bugzilla – Bug 2456
Multiple artist sorting broken
Last modified: 2008-09-15 14:37:04 UTC
I have a track that has tags: ARTIST="Michael Andrews;Gary Jules" ARTISTSORT="Andrews, Michael;Jules, Gary" "Michael Andrews" is correctly sorted when browsing artists, but I notice that "Gary Jules" appears just above Michael Andrews, instead of sorted under "J".
My "Articles To Ignore When Sorting" includes "The", but this is not being ignored in artist or album names.
Phil - can you upload a zipped copy of your slimserversql.db to this bug? Also - what is your split character set to? is it ";" ?
*** Bug 2477 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I just did a full rescan with the latest trunk, and now the artists Michael Andrews and Gary Jules are not listed under "Browse Artists" - I can't see them anywhere, ie not sorted under M, A, G or J. This track doesn't have an album tag. I notice that my artist count is 457. I think a few days ago this was around 600. I have been tidying tags up, correcting typo's, adding more ARTISTSORT tags, and some artists have probably dissapeared from the list because of detecting more various artist albums, but I was expecting more than 457. I notice I have a "No Album" in the album list, but I don't have a "No Artist" in the artist list. However, if I do a search for "Michael" or "Gary", it finds the track in question, listing it as "Mad World by Michael Andrews, Gary Jules". If I display the song info for the track, it then displays the artists as "Gary Jules, Michael Andrews". Note that the order of the artists has changed. I'm assuming that in one case it has sorted by ARTISTSORT tag, and in the other case it has sorted by ARTIST tag. I'd actually prefer it if it didn't sort by either of those tags, but listed the artists in the order they were entered in the file tags. A song by "Fripp & Eno" would look rather wrong if it was listed as "Eno, Fripp" as another example. Also note that if I search for "Andrews" or "Jules", it doesn't find the track. My Search option is currently set to "Search Beginning of Words" - I'd expect the artist to be found by either first or last name, as they are words? Back to the original problem(s)... :) My artist separator is semi-colon, which I have started to use in my tags. Where I have multiple artists with ARTISTSORT tags, I have used the same number of divider characters in both ARTIST and ARTISTSORT tags to associate the two entries. eg: ARTIST="Michael Andrews;Gary Jules" ARTISTSORT="Andrews, Michael;Jules, Gary" The sorting problem for "The" article still remains. I will zip my slimserversql.db and email to you - prefer to do that rather than make my music habbits visible to the world!
Fixed in change 5023 and change 5024 for the 6.2.1 branch.