There should be a way to support sorting Artists in the browser by ARTISTSORT tag. Without this type of sorting, the artists in my library that are a person's name (e.g. "First Last") are sorted by "First Last" instead of "Last, First". Also, artist names like "The Band" are sorted by "The Band" instead of "Band, The". This is not the way CDs are sorted at a store nor the way that I sort them on my shelf.

Other information:
The ARTISTSORT tag is automatically added when ripping with gnome sound-juicer using MusicBrainz data. I see that the rhythmbox recognizes it as it is reflected in the ~/.gnome2/rhythmbox/rhythmdb.xml file as the value of a mb-artistsortname element. Futhermore, the 0.11.6 code seems to associate this with a RHYTHMDB_PROP_ARTIST_SORTNAME property. Now if only the code could be configured to use this property for sorting.

It seems that the gnome products (sound-juicer and rhythmbox) would be better integrated if this was a supported (if not the default) behavior.

I looked at UI settings with gconf-editor and saw that RHYTHMDB_PROP_ARTIST is used in the default rhythmdb_columns_setup value. I expected that changing this to RHYTHMDB_PROP_ARTIST_SORTNAME would fix the play queue but it just removed the Artist altogether. Is this another but? I was hoping that there would be some other setting here for using the _SORTNAME variant for the UI browser.

Thanks!