>he should easily be able to sort the home>albums list as A to Z, >right? > That's the default sort order for a list of albums. He wants to permanently see Home>Albums sorted by album name, but the setting also affects albums when filtered to a specific artist.
>> 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 > No it's not. I'm repeating myself here, but maybe you didn't understand last post? When you get a long list of albums ordered by artist, you don't know where to jump down the list to find what you are looking for. And if albums have multiple artists/album artists, it is not always clear what artist name each album may be sorted under. e.g. Sorcerer by Tangerine Dream is a soundtrack, so you may call the album artist "Soundtrack". This will be sorted under Soundtrack, but someone else may expect to find it listed under Tangerine Dream. If a user knows he's looking for that album, it would be easier to navigate to the album *either* by Artists > Tangerine Dream > Sorcerer or Artists > Soundtrack > Tangerine Dream. Of course, user could also use Search ;-) >and he should be able to do >either of those sorts via home>albums too, he just has to pick the sort >method. > But that's not easy to do from all user interfaces. Eg. on Touch, you can't change the sort order from the Browse Albums list (you set it in the Settings > Advanced > Albums Sort Method, which is not user friendly if you need to keep changing it when browsing different lists). >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. > I don't understand. *You* only use a single list of albums, that you change the sort order for to find things in different ways (except it can't reproduce Browse New Music), whereas the different Browse methods can be used to present smaller lists that are easier to navigate to find something (if you know what you are looking for). >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. > Just weird. >until home>artists does artwork, i will prob never use it. What artwork would you expect for artists? What value does it add? I suppose it could attempt to look up artist names and download a picture of the artist from Last.fm or something, but why? It's an interim level in order to filter albums to a smaller set. Once an artist is chosen you see artwork next to each of their albums. >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. Would you want some artwork for each year too? :-) What would the artwork for 2010 look like for you? And maybe some artwork for each genre too? Phil _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
