Bug 422599

Summary: Sort by SORT-suffix using {ALBUM|ALBUMARTIST|ARTIST|COMPOSER|TITLE}SORT tags if available
Product: [Applications] Elisa Reporter: Herbert Graeber <herbert>
Component: generalAssignee: Matthieu Gallien <matthieu_gallien>
Status: CONFIRMED ---    
Severity: wishlist CC: nate, postix, qwerty287, yanth
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 0.4.1   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
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Description Herbert Graeber 2020-06-07 21:58:03 UTC
SUMMARY

MP3 Tage have special tags for sorting albums, album artists, artists, composers and titles. Hos shall be used for sorting.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Add an album of "The Beatles"
2. Sort by album artist 

OBSERVED RESULT
1. The Beatles" are shown under "T" 

EXPECTED RESULT
"The Beatles" shall be sorted under "B"

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
There are tags ALBUMSORT, ALBUMARTISTSORT, ARTISTSORT, COMPOSERSORT and TITLESORT. THse shall be used for sorting if provides by the files. If not sorting shall fallback to the tags without the SORT-suffix.
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2020-06-11 04:50:40 UTC
Good idea!

It also might be good to automatically exclude "The" from consideration when sorting even if none of those tags are set.