I have gone thru my whole music library to revise tagging to try and ensure proper presentation of the Artist list but it is still messed up for me.
Example, I have many albums by Sting, and in these albums:
Artist = Sting
Album Artist = Sting
Sort Artist = Sting
Sort Album Artist = Sting
However, I have one album by Chris Botti in which there is a song he did with Sting. For this single track:
Artist = Chris Botti; Sting
Album Artist = Chris Botti
Sort Artist = Botti, Chris; Sting
Sort Album Artist = Botti, Chris
The confusion I have with LMS is that when I sort by Artist, I get the following:
- I have Chris Botti appearing as an Artist (in the "B's" as it should be) and if I select him, this album and this track appear along with all other albums and tracks (correct as I want it)
- I have Sting appearing as an Artist and if I select him, this album and this track appear as do all other Sting Albums and tracks ... HOWEVER ... Sting appears in the list of "C's" between "David Chesky" and "Clannad" ... LMS has sorted all Sting content based upon the one track that appears on an Album with Chris Botti and has placed the "Sting" listing where "Chris Botti" would be but has the artist name of Sting appearing here. There is no listing for "Sting" in the "S" listing?
Why isn't it placing Sting with the "S's"?
Why has it placed Sting in the "C's" when the sort order for Chris Botti should be to sort by last name and in fact all the Chris Botti entries are placed with the "B's" based on last name.
Note: LMS is set up to use a single list that combines "artist" and "album artist" and the ";" character is listed as a delimiter to separate entries. I tried using two separate lists but that effect was even worse since I could not stop LMS from then listing all the composers etc. which I don't want to see at all - that was even more cluttered and messed up in my Artist list.
Any suggestions on why it is behaving this way or what I can do to get Sting to sort to the "S" listing would be much appreciated.
Example, I have many albums by Sting, and in these albums:
Artist = Sting
Album Artist = Sting
Sort Artist = Sting
Sort Album Artist = Sting
However, I have one album by Chris Botti in which there is a song he did with Sting. For this single track:
Artist = Chris Botti; Sting
Album Artist = Chris Botti
Sort Artist = Botti, Chris; Sting
Sort Album Artist = Botti, Chris
The confusion I have with LMS is that when I sort by Artist, I get the following:
- I have Chris Botti appearing as an Artist (in the "B's" as it should be) and if I select him, this album and this track appear along with all other albums and tracks (correct as I want it)
- I have Sting appearing as an Artist and if I select him, this album and this track appear as do all other Sting Albums and tracks ... HOWEVER ... Sting appears in the list of "C's" between "David Chesky" and "Clannad" ... LMS has sorted all Sting content based upon the one track that appears on an Album with Chris Botti and has placed the "Sting" listing where "Chris Botti" would be but has the artist name of Sting appearing here. There is no listing for "Sting" in the "S" listing?
Why isn't it placing Sting with the "S's"?
Why has it placed Sting in the "C's" when the sort order for Chris Botti should be to sort by last name and in fact all the Chris Botti entries are placed with the "B's" based on last name.
Note: LMS is set up to use a single list that combines "artist" and "album artist" and the ";" character is listed as a delimiter to separate entries. I tried using two separate lists but that effect was even worse since I could not stop LMS from then listing all the composers etc. which I don't want to see at all - that was even more cluttered and messed up in my Artist list.
Any suggestions on why it is behaving this way or what I can do to get Sting to sort to the "S" listing would be much appreciated.