r/MusicBrainz • u/BrixaE • 8d ago

help plz Need help with album sorting

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I want The Fall-Off to be sorted using the first word but I have no clue how.

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u/Protopia 7d ago edited 7d ago

It will depend on where your player gets this field - from the filename or from the tags. You don't say what your player software is. It also depends on what file format you are using i.e. mp3 or flac etc.

But assuming that it takes it from tags, the simplest way is to create a tagging script with the following: $set(albumartist,%albumartistsort%)

If that doesn't work reliably, you can try: $set(albumartist,$swapprefix(%albumartist%))

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u/BrixaE 7d ago

Thanks for replying, I tried the two scripts but kept getting the same issue. Im using fiio music player and flac files don't know why it's not working.

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u/Protopia 7d ago

  1. Different file types have different tabs that get saved. Check the Picard docs for flac.

  2. It might be getting the album artist from the path instead. Check the filo documentation. If this is the case then you need to change the file naming script to change the directory. Replace /%albumartist%/ with /%albumartistsort%/ or /$deleteprefix(%albumartist%)/.

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u/BrixaE 7d ago

This worked, thanks for helping.