[mb-users] Picard and Album Artist Sortname tagging

[Lukáš Lalinský]

On 10/11/07, Jacob R <creap0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've noticed that some of my mp3's have a "TXXX:MusicBrainz Album
> Artist Sortname" id3v2.4 tag, while others have "TXXX:ALBUMARTISTSORT"
> or both. http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/PicardQt/TagMapping claims the
> latter is what's supposed to be used, so is the first variant simply
> some remnant in my mp3's from an earlier MB tagger?

Yes, Picard 0.7 uses TXXX:MusicBrainz Album Artist Sortname", Picard
0.9 uses "TXXX:ALBUMARTISTSORT".

> I'm messing around with Quod Libet's internal tag mapping and it'd be
> useful to know what's official and could be expected to be used in the
> future. Thanks --Creap.

This is not a MB specific tag (which is actually why I changed the
name) and I wouldn't call PicardQt/TagMapping official, but what's on
the page will probably be used in the future versions of Picard.

Lukas