Global Settings For Albumartistsort and Artistsort?

[becket]

I am a beginner with dbpoweramp and am ripping my CD collection. I like to use first name first for artistsort and albumartistsort. The default is last name first. So I am manually typing in that information for each CD. I have not found a setting to change the default to do what I want it to do. Is there such a setting and, if so, how do I find it? I will appreicate any help you are able to provide.

[Spoon]

Re: Global Settings For Albumartistsort and Artistsort?

It is not possible to automatically set this.

[smisk]

Re: Global Settings For Albumartistsort and Artistsort?

It looks like artistsort is not updated when i review and edit perfectmeta data? Ie perfectmeta found wrong record and put "Wonder, Wayne" in artistsort even though I edited the artist field to contain "Måns Zelmerlöw"?

Also, it looks like the "Style" tag (that presumably came from one of the PerfectMeta sources) is kept for each song from the wrongly-matched record even tough i changed album title, song title, artist, year and genre.
Since the "style" field is not visible from the review screen I guess i now have several hundred songs with a totally erronous style tag.

[smisk]

Re: Global Settings For Albumartistsort and Artistsort?

BTW suggest to skip writing ArtistSort tag when artist is only one word (contains no spaces or commas)

[Spoon]

Re: Global Settings For Albumartistsort and Artistsort?

Sort and style tages are available with all providers, so choosing freedb would no overwrite those values.

Having a sort value the same as artist or even a single word has no detriments.

[smisk]

Re: Global Settings For Albumartistsort and Artistsort?

Well except if I edit the currently selected artist name (say Muddy Waters) and write something totally different (Gladys Knight & the Pips), the artist sort tag should in my opinion be updated (Knight, Gladys; Pips, the; ). Or can we make a button for this?
FreeDB was not at fault here, the faulty metadata in this particular case came from GD3 (probably correct metadata for another album but not for this one).

[Spoon]

Re: Global Settings For Albumartistsort and Artistsort?

If you change an artist name, you would also have to edit the sort values.

[smisk]

Re: Global Settings For Albumartistsort and Artistsort?

Would be lovely to have this field in the metadata review screen then. In fact it would be lovely if the user could select which fields should show up on this screen.