What order determines Artist Sort when the tag is empty ?
I have loads of albums where [Artist Sort] is empty Audirvana seems to have some default which splits an Artist into 2 groups First, Last and Last, First
Equally orchestral records often have the orchestra and or conductor included in the sort order.
This makes finding an individual artist a nightmare
I assume there is no Global setting , and I have no desire to start adding [Artist Sort] where its missing , it will be 10’s of thousands of tracks
I will need to check but no definite rule will mean one way for no data and possibly another sort if ArtistSort is set
I am seeing artists in areas where its Surname , and in other areas where it’s first name , finding an album is chaotic . There are examples where one artist is in multiple tags eg where playing with another artist. Often an artist neve appears as a single artist !!
Defining ArtistSort = Last Name, First Name or First Name , Last Name would help
I simply don’t have the appetite to go through thousands of albums setting a standardize ArtistSort tag when the Artists tag is accurately set. It will mean backing up my entire library
Take this as an example, my only source of John Williams is a single box set , it contains Cd’s recorded with other artists.
All CD’s have the Artist set as a semi-colon delimited string (which is JRivers way of creating a collection. AS has converted these semi colon’s to “/” In some cases and commas in others and now shows 6 individual sort artist tags (last column), some starting J others W .
Equally the other Artists are only shown as part of a composite string. Take Itzhak Perlman, this recording would be lost