Artist sort order

[gwm]

not entirely sure that this is a mopidy-local issue so let me know if I got the wrong project!

When viewing tracks by artist, I would expect the sort order to be based on the "Album Artist Sort Order" or "Artist Sort Order" tag rather than strict alphabetical. So for example, artist "The August List" would come under "A" for "August List, The" rather than under "T" for "The" which it does at present.

Of course it is possible I just have some config set wrong. Apologies if that is the case.

[kingosticks]

You can set the use_artist_sortname config to sort artists based on the "Artist Sort Order" tag.

Unsure if it'll work when listing tracks though so maybe not quite what you are asking?

[gwm]

hmmm... that doesn't seem to have any effect that I can detect.

[kingosticks]

Not sure I understand correctly. Sorting tracks of a particular artist based on artist sort order doesn't make sense to me. That's for sorting different artists. Shouldn't all those tracks have the same artist?

[gwm]

my mistake. I should have said "When viewing by artist..." In other words, when I open mopidy-mobile or Iris, and view my library by Artist.

[djmattyg007]

To clarify, you’re viewing a list of all tracks for a particular artist, and it’s sorting all of the tracks alphabetically, rather than by album?

If that’s not it, perhaps you could provide a more detailed example?

[gwm]

On 11/03/2021 04:24, Matthew Gamble wrote: To clarify, you’re viewing a list of all tracks for a particular artist, and it’s sorting all of the tracks alphabetically, rather than by album? If that’s not it, perhaps you could provide a more detailed example?

no, when viewing my library by "Artist" I'd like to see "The Libertines" for example, under "L" for libertines rather than "T" for "the". track metadata can specify that artist should be sorted as "libertines, the" for example but even when this is set, it is not displayed as expected. I guess it is possible that the MP3/FLAC tags are irrelevant to how the Artists are sorted on the client. I see the same sorting behaviour on the Android mopidy-client and also Iris web client. I am using the Mopidy-local backend. Does this make sense? G

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[animaldaydream]

I understand. I also want to have this option, but for album artists.

He's saying he wants the list of artists to be sorted by the "Artist Sort" tag rather than just the "Artist" tag.

The config value use_artist_sortname doesn't seem to achieve this. I don't know if this depends on the client or…?