Plexamp Album artist order

Plex Media Server Metadata & Adding Files
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I started organizing my music library (daunting task to do) using the musicbrainz picard app and see that they sort album artist by last name first which is extremely annoying considering everyone else does first name. Will plex allow to display first name organization? or is this something i need to edit myself.

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Plexamp does sort ā€œAlbum Artistā€ by whatever is actually in the Album Artist tag in your track file (e.g. flac file). So for example, my Album Artist tag value is ā€œBruce Springsteenā€, not ā€œSpringsteen Bruceā€. But I use dbPowerAmp to create my flac files and that programā€™s default option is to generate as (first name, last name) with an option to perform (last name, first name). As stated, most music software went with (first name last name) as the default. This of course is the exact opposite of what physical media record stores have been doing since the dawn of time :slight_smile:

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Hi @Tenrai-Sensei I had a similar question, refer to the below for options:

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You can override musicbrainz Picard with scripting

I used this script from the musicbrainz forumā€¦

This sets albumartistsort for names like ā€œBruce Springsteenā€ but will ignore artists with ā€œtheā€ at the beginning so keeps those like ā€œBeatles, theā€

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Thank you for all the reply everyone xD Jimbob i just add this works like a charm much appreciated!!!

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Isnā€™t that the default behaviour of Plex anyway?
The only difference is that ā€œThe Beatlesā€ turn into just ā€œBeatlesā€ for the Sorting Title.
(provided you donā€™t have the ugly ArtistSort and AlbumSort metatags in your files. MB Picard can be taught to not write these.)

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This was exactly why the original post exists and that is why I offered the script

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FYIā€¦ album sort can also suffer from this sorting depending on your tags. This is what I do within picard to control the sorting so I get the sorting in plex exactly how I want it ā€¦

$set(artistsort,%albumartist%)
$set(albumartistsort,%albumartist%)
$set(albumsort,%album%)
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