Various Artists on top of artist list

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(13-02-2017 09:54)kosmonaut_75 Wrote:  I had already tried the solution described in your post regarding the genre tags. However, it doesn't work in this case (this time I followed your instructions very carefully...)

As I understand it the difference is that in this case I only want to put "Various Artists" on top of the artist list and not touch the other album artists. With your first approach each genre got a new genresort tag via the tagupdate file. Obviously I do not want to attribute each albumartist a new a albumartistsort tag via the update file, this would be way too tedious.

With your approach I would only have only one albumartist with a albumartistsort tag (=1Various Artists), all the other albumartists wouldn't. As far as I can see, this doesn't lead to the desired result.

Can you help?

If you don't like Simon's approach, you could use MP3Tag. It has a macro functionality to copy over the AlbumArtist tag into the AlbumArtistSort tag.

But you will need at least two tags to get the sorting you want and the display you want. You cannot do what you want with info in just one tag.