Philip Meyer;437734 Wrote: > >To you maybe... to me it's not the release year of the disk that > >matters it's the release year of the music on the disk. So if I have > a > >comp with tracks from 1970,71 and 72 then if I have set no release > year > >for the album (which if I did would be 1970 by the way) the release > date > >I'd want it to default to would be 1970 because that is the earliest > >track. Also, we aren't necessary talking about real physical/released > >albums here - it might be a set of randomly hand-assembled singles > for > >example. > > > >This is particularly important to me for single-artist compilations - > I > >need my albums to display in chrono order and that needs the earliest > >track to drive things properly, not the latest one. > > > >A classic case (hated by the developers of course) of there being two > >valid views of the univserse and the need for a user preference! > > I'd have to disagree and say either it should be the max year, or > "various"/"multiple", etc. > > An album year of "min year" makes no sense to me either. An artists > "Greatest Hits" album with songs ranging from 2000 to 2005 and a new > bonus song produced 2009 could only be released from 2009. > > Of course, if there were support for an ALBUMYEAR tag, you have your > preference - fill in whatever value you like.
Well you are just wrong :-) How does "various" work in a numeric sort? (obviously you don't use Custom scan/browse...). I'm right and I don't care what anyone says, because it's my collection, sorted the way I want - yah boo sucks... (taking ball home) -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... SB3 (wired) - TACT 2.2X (Linear PSU) + Good Vibrations S/W - MF Triplethreat(Audiocom full mods) - Linn 5103 - Aktiv 5.1 system (6x LK140's, ESPEK/TRIKAN/KATAN/SEIZMIK 10.5), Townsend Supertweeters, Blue Jeans Digital,Kimber Speaker & Chord Interconnect cables Outdoors: Boom ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=65073 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list beta@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
