First off, thanks to King Sparta for such a useful tool.
Now, I'm kind of old-school when it comes to alphabetization and I absolutely recoil in horror at the Internet-era trend of ordering artist names by First Name. So I swam against the current and meticulously tagged all my files in MC with Artist Names that will sort correctly:
Doors, The
Petty, Tom
etc.
The problem that occurs, however, is that when trying to use handy tools like Datamaster it often won't find any data for very common albums, and my guess is that it's because a lot of artist names don't match (this really only seems to be an issue with Last Name, First Name tags).
I know this is my problem, but I bet a few others have also hit this brick wall as we cling to standards in an age of illiteracy. So one option for me would be to create a custom field like "Artist Sort," copy all my current names into that field, and then go through and fix all the correct Artist Names to fit the contemporary style.
But I was also wondering if it would be possible for Datamaster to employ a fuzzier search method that would look at "Apple, Fiona" and find "Fiona Apple?" Or would that open up too much room for incorrect data getting imported?
My other alternative is just to use the Doof plugin and go track by track through the 17000+ lyricsless files until they're all happy. I have been known to do such things in the past, but I'm trying to get beyond that.
Any ideas? Thanks.
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