The meta tags for her name look like:
comment[3]: ALBUM ARTIST=עפרה חזה
comment[4]: ALBUMARTIST=עפרה חזה
comment[5]: ALBUMARTIST_CREDIT=Ofra Haza
comment[6]: ALBUMARTISTSORT=Haza, Ofra
I want the directory filename to be ‘O/Ofra Haza/’
but it was creating ‘_/עפרה חזה/’
I then added ‘asciify_paths: yes’ to my config file
and now it creates _/`prh\ KHzh/
I understand why it’s doing this, and no disrespect to the culture, but how can I get this to show up as ‘O/Ofra Haza/’? Can I do something in my config file for this one artist, even if that is a hack?
But of course, that only works if MusicBrainz has the appropriate alias information. You may consider just doing beet modify -a 'עפרה חזה' albumartist='Ofra Haza' to make the change yourself.
Thanks, adrian.
I tried “languages: en” and it made no difference.
I used your suggestion of modifying albumartist, and that did accomplish what I wanted, but this could get un-done if I ever do a full refresh (reimport) of my database, right? I guess that’s something I’ll just have to keep in mind.
If you set a primary EN alias on musicbrainz and sync with musicbrainz (mbsync?) you should be able to have it match correctly. I do this to allow my changes to be used by everyone.