Re: ArtistSortName w. trios, quartets, quintets, etc.

On Sun, 2009-03-01 at 10:07 +0100, Leiv Hellebo wrote:
> Paul C. Bryan wrote:
> > A change to SortNameStyle I'd like you to consider is:
> >         
> > 'Artist names that contain a person's name (usually bands) should sort
> > in a manner consistent with the person's name as an artist. Examples:
> > "The Sensational Alex Harvey Band" has the sort name "Harvey, Alex,
> > Sensational, Band, The". "The Jimi Hendrix Experience" has sort name
> > "Hendrix, Jimi, Experience, The".'
> 
> I much prefer what we already have, because group names are not 
> conventionally chunked up as person names are.
> 
> I don't see person sorting as useful here, and libraries etc. that use 
> this kind of sorting probably does it to conveniently have Benny Goodman 
> and Benny Goodman Quartet recordings placed close to one another.

Having such recordings placed close to one another is really the point.
For some, one has to scroll through hundreds or even thousands of
artists to get from a person to a band in that person's name.

> This concern does not apply to MusicBrainz, because you can click "Benny 
> Goodman" -> "View relationships" and easily find "Benny Goodman Quartet"

It's not for the MusicBrainz user interface that I'm proposing this for.
It's for the applications that use ARTISTSORT and ALBUMARTISTSORT that
will be the real beneficiaries.

> > If this change is too extreme, would a suitable compromise make sense
> > for trios, quartets, quintents, etc?
> 
> No reason to treat classical artists different from other artists, IMO.
> 
> 
> Leiv
> 
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