I just about have the library sorted in Audirvana but have two Artists appearing at the front of the alphabet before ‘A’. The source of these are some from iTunes Music (where they appear in the right order and some directly from the mapping of a file location on the hard disk.The artists are Elton John and Marvin Gaye who both appear before AC/DC.
I must say that I am stumped on this one. It just appears to be illogical?
Can you open click on Elton John and open the metadata panel of Audirvana? Can you check the Sort as section of the artist and send a screenshot of it?
This is an issue that Audrivana seems to create whenever it you have a composer or secondary Artist (provided by MusicBrainz).
Instead of Adding a SortArtist / SortComposer tag with the format Last, First – for some unexplainable reason it adds the value ARIST THE to everyone one of those, which causes them to be sorted under A (for ARTIST).
Its very annoying, but a workaround seems to be to always add your own SortArtist + SortComposer tags…