adhawkins;381000 Wrote: > Hi, > > In article <srasher.3lo1mz1231370101 (AT) no-mx (DOT) > forums.slimdevices.com>, > srasher<srasher.3lo1mz1231370101 (AT) no-mx (DOT) > forums.slimdevices.com> wrote: > > *Andy*: Regarding the retrieval script itself I personally would > prefer > > the option to sort the albums in the well-known "Artist -> Year -> > > Album" way as possible in the SC album view. Of course, it might be > > best to make this an additional option... > > > > In general this is fairly easy by modifying the album request over > the > > CLI (add "sort:artwork" to the request). Initial trial doesn't work, > > though. I will check why this doesn't fit to the parsing. > > I kind of assumed that the sort order would be configurable in the > output > template? > > Andy
In general yes, but as far as I can overview that (maybe this also changes between server versions, I am currently using 7.2) there might be an issue with the artist sorting then because the artist that is retrieved by the standard album query can only be one of "artist" or "album artist" tags and so if you want to sort afterwards you have two unsatisfying possibilities: 1.) You got the "album artist" information. Then you will see entries in the output file like "Cash, Johnny" or "Springsteen, Bruce". 2.) You got the "artist" information. Then "Johnny Cash" albums will be sorted under "J" if you later sort by artist and so on. Both might be unsatisfying for one or the other use case. If you use the "sort:artflow" option for the album query, you get the albums sorted by "album artist" but the artist information that is retrieved is the one from the "artist" tag (or whatever has been configured on the server). So I think it might at least be nice to have the option to specify it like this in the initial request to SqueezeCenter. If I am wrong about the information loss described above, just forget the issue! Just thought this might be good to know before you start major efforts on sorting or stuff like that... Cheers, Seb -- srasher http://www.zeroed.net - Ruhrpott Thrash/Death http://www.last.fm/user/srasher ------------------------------------------------------------------------ srasher's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6209 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42826 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
