I keep FLAC files for my Squeezebox and use dMC to create a shadow folder structure with AAC files for iTunes (to sync to my iPhone). To keep Squeezebox Server happy I need to add the tags "artistsort" and "albumsort" (no spaces) but iTunes doesn't understand those so I want to use dMC's tag mapping to put the correct iTunes tags into my converted AAC files.
Just looking at artist sorting then, if I tag the FLAC files with "Artist Sort" and use dMC to convert to AAC then I get the correct sorting behaviour when I import the AAC files into iTunes and if I look at the tags in the AAC files with dMC it tells me that there is a tag called "Artist Sort" in the AAC file but if I look at the same file using the "View / Extended Tags..." action with MP3Tag then it shows me a tag called ARTISTSORTORDER (and also ALBUMSORTORDER for the album sorting) and there is no "Artist Sort" (or "Album Sort") tag in the AAC file.
So my question is, when I set up my tag mappings for dMC conversion (by adding a couple of "Add DSP Effects / ID Tag Processing / Map" actions via the conversion options), do I set the targets as "Artist Sort" and "Album Sort", do I set them as "ARTISTSORTORDER" and "ALBUMSORTORDER", or will either one work? If either way will work then which way would you use?
- Julian
Just looking at artist sorting then, if I tag the FLAC files with "Artist Sort" and use dMC to convert to AAC then I get the correct sorting behaviour when I import the AAC files into iTunes and if I look at the tags in the AAC files with dMC it tells me that there is a tag called "Artist Sort" in the AAC file but if I look at the same file using the "View / Extended Tags..." action with MP3Tag then it shows me a tag called ARTISTSORTORDER (and also ALBUMSORTORDER for the album sorting) and there is no "Artist Sort" (or "Album Sort") tag in the AAC file.
So my question is, when I set up my tag mappings for dMC conversion (by adding a couple of "Add DSP Effects / ID Tag Processing / Map" actions via the conversion options), do I set the targets as "Artist Sort" and "Album Sort", do I set them as "ARTISTSORTORDER" and "ALBUMSORTORDER", or will either one work? If either way will work then which way would you use?
- Julian
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