Sorting by artist doesn't use artist sort-name

[IvanDobsky]

Haha - funny. One of the previous threads on this was started by me in 2019

Why does "My Collection" not sort correctly?

If I go to “My Data” and then “My Collection” I can look my the various collections of music. A nice feature. It is also really nice that I can click on the column headers to change the sort order. QUESTION: Why is is when I click on the ARTIST column to sort by Artist it doesn’t sort correctly? Why is “The Beatles” under “T”? Would be nice if that list could use the Sort Order from the MB database to get that correct.

(I think I was in a weird argumentative mood that day… Please forgive my madness)

But it does explain why this is not just a simple case of adding an extra column.

@reosarevok

The problem is they’re sorted by artist credit, and artist credits don’t have sortnames.

We could probably sort by a combination of sortnames of all artists in the credit. That would mean the actual credited name is ignored though (so, all releases by “Puff Daddy”, “P. Diddy” and “Diddy” would all sort under “Diddy”). That doesn’t sound good to me (since it wouldn’t sort stuff where I’d expect it), but it might be good for some people.

And also: Sort Name Ignored In Collections

@reosarevok

FWIW, this is just not doable right now without a schema change, see this comment on github. It’s not being ignored, I even wrote code for it - but it’s just way too slow as it is.

Basically: it would be trivial if each release only had one artist, but it’s not trivial for actual artist credits (that’s why we now sort artist collections by sort name).

And likely others… Sometimes things are just not as simple as they look.