[mb-users] Re: Sortnames (for fictitious artists)

[Frederic Da Vitoria]

2007/10/28, Jan van Thiel <jan at palinka0.nl>:
>
> Hi,
>
> On 10/24/07, Frederic Da Vitoria <davitofrg at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 2007/10/24, Jacob R <creap0 at gmail.com>:
> > > What is the reasoning behind not sorting fictitious artist names by
> > > last name, by the way? As noted on
> > > http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/SortNameStyleDiscussion it
> > makes, for
> > > instance, Jimi Hendrix sort on H but The Jimi Hendrix Experience under
>
> > > J.
> > >
> >
> > Yes, I always felt this rule was strange. I'd like an explanation too,
> if
> > someone still around remembers...
>
> I was the one who had the SortNameStyle made official. Before that, it
> was sort of common practice to have it like this, so I left it like
> that.
>
> I don't have any preference on this.
>

I'd rather have it sorted like the solo artist. In order to have the Miles
Davis Quintet just after Miles Davis, instead of "Davis, Miles" and "Miles
Davis, Quintet", for example. And because I often forget that it is Dave
Matthews Band and I try to find it under the letter "M"

Of course, now that so many bands are sorted this way, we would have to
carefully weight the consequences and the cost before changing it

-- 
Frederic Da Vitoria
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