Hi,
I'm switching my music library from Plex Media Server to Asset R4.4 Debian x64 on ubuntu linux (big improvement, thanks a lot!). I've been mostly able to get it to do what I want, except for one thing. Artist Sort handling seems to be completely broken in my install. Whatever configuration I choose, the different sort tags are completely ignored, e.g. Gerry Rafferty appears under G, and never under R. I hope that you can help me out. Here is the debugging that I have already done:
- I have tried with flac (ogg vorbis comments) and mp3 with id3v2.3 and id3v2.4. I have also tried deleting the id3v1 tag from the files.
- Artist, artistsort, artistsortorder, albumartist, albumartistsort and albumartistsortorder tags are present and identical for a given artist.
- I have tried each of the settings for Artist Sort handling, the result is identical
- I have checked under different tree configurations: Album Artist / Album, Album Artist, Artist / Album, Artist, with or without A-Z listing
- I have restored the default settings by removing my ~/.dBpoweramp directory
- I have tested with and without 'Combine Duplicate & Similar Artists'
- I have tried disabling all appending options for track numbers etc
- I have tried different configs for the multi-disc options
- I have tried with and without 'Contributing Artists with Main Artists'. This should not matter, I don't have any contributing artists in my test library
- I have tried with the BubbleUPnP control point, the Windows 8 built-in UPnP browser, the 'djmount' linux app, and my Denon CEOL N9 built-in browser
- I have tried with 'The' handling on Smart, and Leave as is. 'The' artists (but not album artists, is this not implemented?) are correctly resorted according to the specified settings
- I have looked at the SQLite database. t_artist has the unsorted value in 'storedvalue', but 'sortvalue' is empty for all. Should have done this first, would have saved me a lot of time. In the uMediaTable, t_artist and t_album_s_artist reference the correct row, the related 1,2,3 fields are 0
- When doing a rescan all, the debug Library log mentions the 'adding new track', counting tracks, combining artists, and detecting split compilation albums steps, nothing about sorts, and no errors.
- I have of course done many, many rescan alls...
Anything else I can try? I'll try to attach my config dump
Thanks in advance,
Davy