How to manage Music Video display format when scrapped to library?

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How to manage Music Video display format when scrapped to library? - mthawk - 2023-12-21

Hello, everyone.
I am running Kodi 20.2 on RPi4.
I tried to scan to library my music video clips collection, but faced strange behavior with displaying scanned videos names.
So far I scraped just 2 music videos to my library (Useless and Wrong) and here is the results on how this now be displayed in different views:
Video files view: (Only Title displayed) Seemed to be %T

Next Music Library - view by titles (display format Artist - Title seemed to be %A - %T)

Next Video library view by genres Title - Artist (seemed to be %T - %A)

And Music vide view by Genres - only title again (%T)

I've checked skin XML layout and it seemed to be all the time $INFO[ListItem.Label] used to display content name.

Thus definition should be should be somewhere deeper.

Could you please give me a clue how to define Music Video display format be like %A - %T all the time ?

p.s. I applied temporary workaround as follows, but i suppose it would be better to find settings-based solution, not skin-change approach:

xml:
<control type="label">

        <left>10</left>

        <top>0</top>

        <width>720</width>

        <height>40</height>

        <font>font13</font>

        <textcolor>grey2</textcolor>

        <selectedcolor>selected</selectedcolor>

        <align>left</align>

        <aligny>center</aligny>

        <visible>String.IsEmpty(ListItem.Artist)</visible>

        <label>$INFO[ListItem.Label]</label>

</control>

<control type="label">

        <left>10</left>

        <top>0</top>

        <width>720</width>

        <height>40</height>

        <font>font13</font>

        <textcolor>grey2</textcolor>

        <selectedcolor>selected</selectedcolor>

        <align>left</align>

        <aligny>center</aligny>

        <visible>!String.IsEmpty(ListItem.Artist)</visible>

        <label>$INFO[ListItem.Artist] - $INFO[ListItem.Title]</label>

</control>

RE: How to manage Music Video display format when scrapped to library? - Hitcher - 2023-12-21

(2023-12-21, 12:20)mthawk Wrote: Video files view: (Only Title displayed) Seemed to be %T

Settings > Media > Videos > Disable: Replace file names with library titles.

RE: How to manage Music Video display format when scrapped to library? - Hitcher - 2023-12-21

(2023-12-21, 12:20)mthawk Wrote: Next Music Library - view by titles (display format Artist - Title seemed to be %A - %T)

Sorted by artist so this is correct.

RE: How to manage Music Video display format when scrapped to library? - Hitcher - 2023-12-21

(2023-12-21, 12:20)mthawk Wrote: Next Video library view by genres Title - Artist (seemed to be %T - %A)

Sorted by name of video so correct.

RE: How to manage Music Video display format when scrapped to library? - mthawk - 2023-12-21

Dear @Hitcher thank you for pointing me at.
The fact that sort order impact display label format was not obvious but now seemed quite logical.
As for the files I got your point.
Thanks a lot!