Hello,
While tagging a few ATLUS Sound Team albums with picard i noticed my naming script would end up splitting some albums into different folders since for a number of releases the artist was set as “Atlus Sound Team” instead of "ATLUS Sound Team. Is this intended?
A workaround would be to use the albumartistsort tag but it would mean redoing what i already have, so it’s not ideal for my usecase, another way would be to ignore casing but i’m not aware of that feature.
Any advice is appreciated.
Tricky as it sounds more a case of post processing your folders.
Similar issue would happen with when some people use a keyboard hyphen, and other times a unicode hyphen. Or Prince / The Artist Formally Known as Prince / Symbol
I would say over thinking a perfect script would take up more time that manually checking your folders now and then. Use your eye as quality control.
Pickard does have the option of “Use Standardised Artist Name” that some can likely tell you how to do in a script for creating folders.
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In essence, this is by design. When entries are made in MB, the style guidelines explicitly state that you should copy the style on the cover. This is known as “artist intent”
So if it says “Atlus Sound Team” it is assumed that this is “artist intent” (which includes the record company marketing team - but it might not be if it is black market release), and it is entered using the “ATLUS Sound Team” artist record but it is overwritten as “Atlus Sound Team”.
Both of these values are downloaded to Picard when you fetch the metadata from MB, and the “Use Standardized Artist Name” option in Picard makes Picard use the formal Artist record name and not the specific name used on the Album in the Album Artist and Artist fields (and maybe in performer fields) - but AFAIK it is a choice of one or the other and they are not stored as standard in the Picard variables so you can use one in the directory part of the file naming script.
That said there may be an existing plugin that does put the extra values in variables, or it would not be a major difficulty to write one.
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