Philip Meyer;591297 Wrote:
> >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.
here is what he said:
Lleo_;591112 Wrote:
> What I would like to achieve is to simply order the albums from the same
> artist by year, consistently between all devices and web browser when
> browsed by artist, however, keep the alphabetical order if browsed by
> albums.
to order albums from the same artist by year could mean either way i
suppose, ie. artist, year, album, or year, artist, album... it depends
on how one interprets what he wrote.
he'll need to be more specific. i didn't see what you are saying he
could mean until you said it.
Philip Meyer;591297 Wrote:
> 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.
he should easily be able to sort the home>albums list as A to Z,
right?
Philip Meyer;591297 Wrote:
> 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.
sure, but easier to find via artist names, and he should be able to do
either of those sorts via home>albums too, he just has to pick the sort
method.
Philip Meyer;591297 Wrote:
> 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.
and he could pick that sort method too.
Philip Meyer;591297 Wrote:
> 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.
so pick the sort method you want then.
i don't understand the controversy here? i mean, i've said for a long
time picking home>whatever is dopey, but it is what it is, and you
gotta pick one sort method at a time, so you just gotta make do.
Philip Meyer;591297 Wrote:
> 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".
so pick sort by A to Z album names.
or remember how you tagged it. easy for me, i have AA as:
Led Zeppelin (Page & Plant)
b/c thats where i want it to sort, right by the normal led zep stuff.
Philip Meyer;591297 Wrote:
> 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
until home>artists does artwork, i will prob never use it. but even if
it did, i have never wanted home>albums to be A-Z by album name. i just
don't like that sort. np, if others do, but i don't.
i do want my subset <artist> listing to be year, album, and for me in
home>albums it is that way.
if i wanted to browse by years for ALL albums, i'd either change my
sort in home>albums, or do home>years, although i never have done that
and i don't have SBS in front of me to even see if home>years is an
option.
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