Re: [Banshee-List] Artist Name

["Wade Menard" <wade ezri org>]

On Thu, 05 Mar 2009 15:22 +0100, "Roderich Schupp"
<roderich schupp googlemail com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Eef Hartman <E J M Hartman tudelft nl>
> wrote:
> > Actually I always already removed the "The " prefix in the ID3 tags
> > themselves, so the problem doesn't apply too much to me...
> 
> Musicbrainz (where Banshee gets its metadata from when ripping CDs)
> already has a field (artist/sort-name) for that (and analogues
> for album and track). There are  corresponding ID3 tags
> (TSOP - Performer sort order, TSOA, ...).
> But AFAICT Banshee currently lacks support on any level for these
> (i.e. doesn't retrieve 'em from Musicbrainz, doesn't honor or
> generate ID3 tags etc).

Actually thanks in part to the awesome work of John Millikin, Banshee
1.6 will!

Check out http://ezri.org/bansheesort.png

There is now a Sorting tab in the track editor to edit those files but
in advance you can get your music fixed up with MusicBrainz Picard.

-Wade