Sorting questions

[macaumetal]

Hi everyone!
After spending A LOT of hours configuring Picard I had to format my PC, and I forgot to back up my config
Now I’m getting close to what I had, but I’m having issues with the composer sort field.

The field is being deleted in this release despite having all the information in MB

Here’s another example where it won’t add Eddie Holland to composersort although in the pre PC-formatting run it worked.

I have a script to copymerge writer to composer

On both cases the problem is with artists credited as writer that are being “copymerged” to composer. How can I make them appear correctly in the "composersort field?

Also if I’d like to add a Lyricist Sort field could I do it with a script?

Thanks!

[outsidecontext]

I assume you have “Clear existing tags” enabled. This will delete all tags that are not set.

The release in question does not have any composer relationships, hence composersort is not set. Your script fills composer from the writer tag, but it does not set composersort.

If you just want to keep the composersort tag as it is in your files you need to disable “Clear existing tags”.

If you also want to set the composersort based on the writer sortname you need to fill it from the %_writersort% variable. Something like

$copymerge(composersort,_writersort)

[macaumetal]

You assumed correctly and also provided me with a solution.
Thank you very much!