Exclude Various artists from albumSortTags?

[simoncn]

(05-02-2013 12:44)Cableguy Wrote:  When examining extended tags in mp3tag, there is no DATE tag on my files, only YEAR.
Furthermore, I added the DATE tag to my panel and manually applied a four digit year value which oddly enough resulted in the YEAR tag being changed and the new DATE column remained empty.

My conclusion from this is that maybe DATE and YEAR somehow are the same? That would also explain why my YEAR tags work as sorttag in MinimServer. Except from the strange behaviour detailed in the first post.

It seems that Mp3tag displays the DATE tag in the FLAC file as a YEAR tag in its user interface. Mp3tag also allows you to edit this "Year" value to add month and day information (very confusing!)

Now we've got that straightened out, I'm not sure what's causing the unexpected sort order with FLAC albums preceding MP3 albums. Please try the following:

1) Start MinimServer
2) From the minim icon, select 'Show log'
3) In the log window, change the logging level from Info to Trace
4) In the control point, select the index entry for "xxx albums"
5) You should see some messages appear in the log window, similar to the following:

sorting album Selection of Western Film Music
ARTIST: Ennio Morricone
DATE: 2001
sorting album Lassus: Prophetiae Sibyllarum & Missa Amor ecco colei
ARTIST: Stephen Rice: The Brabant Ensemble
DATE: 2011

6) Press 'Save as' to save a copy of this information. Zip the saved log file and attach it to a post here.
7) In the log window, change the logging level from Trace back to Info

I'll take a look at the saved log file and try to find the explanation.