Hi there,
No it keeps the actual tag as the "Display Name" but allows you to generate a "Sort Name" for each Artist. (It appears that Mp3 Collector is using a relational database format for it's DB. I'm not sure how MC does it but given the extensibility of field names etc. I think it may be different.
Thanks! I checked it out and the way it works is pretty sweet. I've read a lot of comments here about the way this should work and I have a feeling this is why this feature hasn't been added. It is a simple problem being made into a complex solution. All that *I* need anyway is a way to take a field from a selection of records, any field, and select everything up to the last space...go to the end of the field and paste a comma, space and then the copyied info. This is what I have to do by hand and it is lame, lame, lame.
MC9 allows us to create just about any field one may want which is great! The first field I wanted was a sort field. MC lets you copy almost any field to any other field, great, I copied artist to the newly created sort field. On hundreds of thousands of records this took less than 10 seconds...next step, manipulating the sort field.
I'm willing to select the records I want to change and I'm willing to create the sort field and copy contents into it, this solves all problems mentioned above, yes it requires brain matter on my part and a bit of time, but it is the copy and paste process above which could easily be programmed and which takes a ridiculous amount of time. I could even create a playlist called "songs to sort" for batch processing. Now that I think about it, since this is a sort field, I don't even need for the utility to do anything other than delete all text up to and including the last space or underline charactor. (Is this currently possible?)
If anyone knows how to get this done with an external utility that could perform the function on a custom, MC field please let me know. Even if I could copy the artist field to another "standard", unused field this would be great since I could then copy the result to the sort field in MC. Whatever the utility, it would have to save anything it does to the file, not its internal database, that is the problem with collectorz.
If there is a way to export to and import from an Access or SQL Server database that would be great as I could do something in Cold Fusion or ASP to manipulate the field. Unfortunately I'm not a VB or C programmer, otherwise this seems like a very easy plug-in.
Thanks for any help with this!