Moode 5.0

[ajz001]

Hello!

First of all thank you for this incredible piece of software and all the hard work you put into it!

I have a problem with my library view/search: I have made a point of tagging all of my music with the artist name formatted as "first name last name" so for example "David Bowie" not "Bowie, David". In Moode 5.0 some of the artist's names are now jumbled, not only like "Bowie, David" but also abominations like "Adderley, Cannonball, and his Orchestra", "Budd, Harold/Eno Brian with Lanois, Daniel" or "Tribe Called Quest, A" and the fun part is: if I don't type it into the search window exactly as it's written it finds absolutely nothing. Not all names are jumbled like that so it's a happy guessing game. I never had any problems with previous versions of Moode and it makes no difference if I sort by "artist" or "album artist". It's also the same library with the same tags as before, so I really don't know what happened. 

Is there a way to fix this?

Thank you,
Martin

Hi Martin,

moOde 5 will use the ArtistSort and AlbumSort tags if they are populated. Generally these particular tags are only present and populated if the collection was purposefully tagged in this way.

Use your tagging utility to examine a sample of the tracks where the Artist is displayed in the Library as last_name, first_name and see if the ArtistSort tag is populated.

-Tim

Hi Tim,

Firstly, I love MoodeAudio and would have been pleased to contribute more to the Beta discussion but alas work commitments didn't really give me the time (anything I noticed had already been reported!). To add to the above: I set my player to sort by Album Artist but ArtistSort tags are present in my collection and this seems to override the Album Artist tag. I removed the ArtistSort tag from one album and sure enough, it's now listed correctly. Is it possible to ignore ArtistSort if sort by Album Artist is selected? Alternatively my music is also tagged with AlbumArtistSort...

Incidentally, as far my collection being "purposefully tagged in this way" I believe this is done automatically by MusicBrainz Picard so is not necessarily a conscious decision by the user.

Thanks for all your hard work,

Andrew