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Bug 527662 - Sort artists by Lastname, then Firstname
Sort artists by Lastname, then Firstname
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 499650
Product: banshee
Classification: Other
Component: User Interface
git master
Other All
: Normal enhancement
: 1.0
Assigned To: Banshee Maintainers
Banshee Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2008-04-12 05:23 UTC by Dylan VanHerpen
Modified: 2008-05-15 16:47 UTC
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Description Dylan VanHerpen 2008-04-12 05:23:02 UTC 
Currently, Bob Dylan is filed under 'B' instead of 'D'. Would be nice to add a sorting hint in either the meta data or the artist folder. For instance Bob _Dylan in the meta tag sorts Dylan, or the naming convention of the artist folder ("Dylan, Bob") can give Banshee an idea on how to sort it.


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Comment 1 Dylan VanHerpen 2008-04-12 05:45:29 UTC 
Still seems cumbersome. I think a better idea is to be able to highlight an album or filter results, and choose from a context menu:

     Sort as "Bob Dylan"
     Sort as "Dylan, Bob"

And then store the results in the database.

Band names starting with "The" should by default sort by whatever follows it, and offer a context menu to override it per artist/selection:

     Sort as "The Manic Street Preachers"
     Sort as "Manic Street Preachers, The"

It gets tricky when there is more than one artist:

     Sort as "Black Francis & Kim Deal"
     Sort as "Francis, Black & Kim Deal"
     Sort as "Deal, Kim & Black Francis"

Still don't know what to do with stuff like Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young :)
Comment 2 Gabriel Burt 2008-05-15 16:47:11 UTC 
Closing this as a duplicate to collect all sorting issues together, since they'll require a common fix.  Thanks for the report.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 499650 ***