About the new sort tags behavior
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I noticed that after the latest update my collection's sort order has completely changed, and it looks to be due to this;
From the changelog for Version 1.2.12...
Added support for sort tags to collection, playlists and smart playlists.
My question - is there an option anywhere to disable that new sort behavior? Because I could not see one. Although it might be useful to some users, in my situation it's less than ideal. It's true I could fix it myself by re-tagging my collection, but I hope that won't be necessary.
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@Lucidae is it that it's listing the artirsts by their last name? If so I have the same issue
For example Serj Tankian in this image -
@NescoPesto
Yes, I assume that Strawberry now looks for the "ARTISTSORT" metadata tag (last name, first name) and uses that value if present as the default sorting option in your collection. -
@Lucidae please come back to this post if you find a solution to this
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In the new release we made use of sort tags for sorting, but the plan is to make an option for it.
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I'm truly confused by how it's working then.
I have these 4 artists for example. (All my files are tagged using Picard - Musicbrainz)Using Album artist name (Album artist sort name) below. I use the Album artist name for sorting, though artist name is the same for these examples.
These 2 get sorted under S for Sammy:
Sammy Hagar (Hagar, Sammy)
Sammy Hagar & The Circle (Hagar, Sammy & Circle, The)These 2 get sorted under H for Hagar
Sammy Hagar and the Wabos (Hagar, Sammy and the Wabos)
Sammy Hagar With Vic Johnson (Hagar, Sammy with Johnson, Vic)There doesn't seem to be a rhyme or reason to the sorting.
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@jonas Nice to hear that. I think this is an interesting feature but it should be optional as most people prefer to sort by the first name of the artists. (Now I have to go all the way down to M to listen to Alanis, ehehehehheh!)
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Hmmm, after several restarts, the sorting in my previous comment changed to be correct with all 4 being under H, and others fixed as well.
So ignore that.
But I like this, having them in Sort Order, as that's how I also keep my file collection folder names.
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Dunno if this "sort tags" thing has been implemented yet, I use the latest version available on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. (Seems to be the latest release 1.2.19)
But if it is, I'd like to see the sort name in the list if using the sort name for alphabetizing. It's mentally not working in a list of names to see "Billy Idol" but it's sorted as "Idol, Billy" in the middle of I-starting names.
