I want to prevent Artist Sort and Album Artist Sort from being written by default

MusicBrainz Picard
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If the file already has these I can prevent them from being overwritten but if they aren’t present I have to manually delete them. I don’t want my artists sorted by Last Name, First Name and my playback software eliminates “The” from band titles

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You can use a script in Options > Scripting to unset this data:

$unset(artistsort)
$unset(albumartistsort)

Or if you actually also want to delete existing tags from files when saving use $delete:

$delete(artistsort)
$delete(albumartistsort)

Alternatively you can also keep the tags but set them to the artist name:

$set(artistsort,%artist%)
$set(albumartistsort,%albumartist%)

Or maybe you want “The Beatles” still be sorted under “B” and not “T”:

$set(artistsort,$swapprefix(%artist%))
$set(albumartistsort,$swapprefix(%albumartist%))
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Thank you it was driving me crazy

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