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**TheOldPresbyope** · 04-08-2019, 02:05 PM

I'm not sure what "sort the artists correctly" means. Does that mean

Dave Brubeck
...
Dave Matthews
...

or

Brubeck, Dave
...
Matthews, Dave
...

I think like an encyclopedist and would tend toward the latter but it does look a bit odd when interleaved with the names of these artists' groups

Brubeck, Dave
...
(The) Dave Brubeck Quartet
...
(The) Dave Matthews Band
...
Matthews, Dave
...

Then there's "The Artist Formerly Known as Prince" which kinda works no matter what Tongue

I like ignoring the leading "the" and "a" in a sort and think making it possible to specify the list of such "noise" words would be useful.

I don't think there's a single scheme which will suit everyone's taste. Even if we take advantage of the sort fields available in metadata (MPD's artist/artistsort, for example) there's the likelihood that some tracks in a collection will not have been completely tagged with the result that we might see

Brubeck, Dave
...
Dave Brubeck
...
(The) Dave Brubeck Quartet
...
Dave Matthews
(The) Dave Matthews Band
...
Matthews, Dave
...

Just my 2-cents worth.

Regards,
Kent

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