Hi!

I have a small problem with the ordering my (large) local collection.

Right now Artists are ordered by the first letter of their name, not their surname, so that Miles Davis is under M, not D. This is ok for bands, but not for individual artists. I have tons of cds by lesser known jazz players, for instance, and sometimes I myself have a hard time finding the artist I'm looking for.

Any ideas how to fix this? Sorry if there's an obvious solution to this I could not find out

Thanks,
federico

Hi,

as far as I know, it's currently not possible in Amarok. However Amarok follows the hints given by other software for the way to sort. For instance, my father uses iTunes and there is a field "order as" where he writes for instance "Davis, Miles". Amarok kept this way of ordering.

So I would recommend you to use a tagger (EasyTag, or whatever you like) to do this.

It could be however a good idea to deal with this within Amarok.

ochurlaud wrote:Hi,

as far as I know, it's currently not possible in Amarok. However Amarok follows the hints given by other software for the way to sort. For instance, my father uses iTunes and there is a field "order as" where he writes for instance "Davis, Miles". Amarok kept this way of ordering.

So I would recommend you to use a tagger (EasyTag, or whatever you like) to do this.

It could be however a good idea to deal with this within Amarok.

thanks for your reply. Indeed, I would prefer not to use a tagger and let my music player do the ordering. Maybe a future release could include this feature?

Open a ticket for it on the bugzilla (if there is not already one).

I can't promess more for now...

It all depends on how you tagged it, if you want to have it by the family name, then you need to put this first.

But when it comes to find artists, just entering Davis in the search field should show up Miles in the results any time, it certainly does for me The search in the Collection Browser is a full text search on all the fields, so this should just work.

Mamarok wrote:It all depends on how you tagged it, if you want to have it by the family name, then you need to put this first.

But when it comes to find artists, just entering Davis in the search field should show up Miles in the results any time, it certainly does for me The search in the Collection Browser is a full text search on all the fields, so this should just work.

yes, that's works fine, true. I just hate typing!

thanks for your answers!

federico

ochurlaud wrote:Open a ticket for it on the bugzilla (if there is not already one).

I can't promess more for now...

there was already an old ticket for it on bugzilla:

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=270575