>i agree, 'artist, year, album' is best to sort by.
I disagree - what the Original Poster has requested seems perfectly logical to
me.
He's asking to sort albums by year, when browsing to a specific artist, which
is often useful as there's a smaller set of albums to look through, and it's
easy to find recent albums by an artist, etc.
But if looking for a specific album name, to be able to locate that album
alphabetically.
e.g. If he wants to find an album called "Dark Side Of The Moon", he would jump
to "D" in the list, and scroll down a bit to find the album. This is aided in
the Web UI via the Alphabet letter hyperlinks, and on Squeezebox IR remotes by
pressing number keys.
Sorting the album list by Year, Album or Artist, Year, Album means you get a
long list that is harder to sequence through to find album names.
i.e. sorted by Year, Album, in the Web UI I get a list of numbered pages, so I
would have to guess roughly where 1973 is in the list, and then scroll down
through the 1973 grouping to find the "D"'s.
Sorting by Artist, Year, Album (where Artist could be Album Artist, Artist or
Band depending on tags set on each album and SBS config options) is both a bit
hit and miss (if multple artists are present as the (album) artist name) and
not useful if you are looking for album names rather than artist names. eg. If
the user can't remember the artist that performed Dark Side Of The Moon.
Another example; if the user wants to find an album "Unledded", would he look
under "J" for Jimmy Page, "P" for Jimmy Page, "R" for Robert Plant, or "P" for
Robert Plant", or "P" for Page & Plant? That's a lot more random than pressing
"U" and sequentially scrolling down to "Unledded".
May years ago, I raised an enhancement request to support exactly what the
original poster has requested - to remember the sort order independently for
each browse menu. So Browse Albums could sort alphabetically, but Browse
Artist > {name} > Albums could be sorted by Year.
Never happened though, so I order by Album for the built-in menus, and use
Custom Browse for versatile browsing instead.
Phil
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