Artist listings in Sonicstage

[VillagerN]

This may sound mighty picky, but..

I am all up to date with SS3.3, but the thing which has constantly annoyed me is the way it seems to alphabetise listings. I generally have My Library listed by artist, and have had to change a lot of the 'sort by letter' properties since I consider e.g. Dusty Springfield to come under 'S', not 'D'.

However, despite everything now at least being in the correct letter category, SS still seems to mis-sort them e.g. Bruce Springsteen will come before Dusty who will come before Jon Secada (I don't even know where my sis got half these tracks!)

Is there an obvious solution to this or is it far to trivial to be of any discussion?!

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[Christopher]

I'm not sure if I understand. A screenshot, perhaps?

[VillagerN]

Well I've now deleted everything from SS except for what I know can be transferred to MD, so the situation is now bearable I don't take this as seriously as it might sound). I am going to gradually build up collection again as I copy my CDs to comp.

For the sake of completeness though, here (I hope) is a pic of what is irritating me.

In my world The Beatles would come between Badly Drawn Boy and Blur, but SS sticks themat the end. Once my brain processed the problem a bit more I figured that since I've 'told' SS The Beatles actually begins with 'B', how is it to know what the next letter is anyway, so I can't hope for much.

Interestingly though, it sticks Dusty Springfield at the *beginning* of the S's, so doesn't seem to follow any pattern...

My mum's a librarian and I work in a bookshop, there is no hope

N.

Try again

Darn.

Picture

[dex Otaku]

There's only one way to change this: change the artist to read "Springsteen, Bruce" - not "Bruce Springsteen". Regardless of where you tell it to sort the artists [i.e. manually changing Bruce from "B" to "S"], SS sorts within that letter by the artist name; Bruce Springsteen comes before Dusty Springfield because "B" precedes "D".

Most music library progs have the same problem, incidentally.

[VillagerN]

There's only one way to change this: change the artist to read "Springsteen, Bruce" - not "Bruce Springsteen". Regardless of where you tell it to sort the artists [i.e. manually changing Bruce from "B" to "S"], SS sorts within that letter by the artist name; Bruce Springsteen comes before Dusty Springfield because "B" precedes "D".

That is so obvious I am hitting myself!

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[KJ_Palmer]

You can also change the Artist Initial to S, by right clicking on the artist name at the left hand side of of the My Library screen (it will have defaulted to D when first import).

[tommypeters]

You can also change the Artist Initial to S, by right clicking on the artist name at the left hand side of of the My Library screen (it will have defaulted to D when first import).

As already reported in this thread, it doesn't help much.