On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 10:10:18PM -0500, Andrew Conkling wrote: > On 3/4/07, Jonathan Matthew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 06:53:51PM +0100, nicola di maria wrote: > > > I think we need the possibility to sort by year albums > > > like this > > > http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m224/nicoladimaria/Schermata-1.png > > > > This really doesn't describe what you're asking for. Perhaps you could > > describe the difference between what you want and what you currently get > > by clicking on the 'year' column? > > It made sense to me, but only because I've thought of this before. In > the browser, rather than sorting the albums alphabetically, it's often > useful to sort them chronologically. I think that's what Nicola is > suggesting.
OK, that makes sense. As I see it, the there are two barriers to implementing this: * sorting on a value that isn't visible seems like a pretty bad idea * there's no immediate way to control the sort order We could probably solve this by changing the album browser from this: [album] all 3 albums (37) aaaa (14) bbbb (11) cccc (12) to this: [album v] [year] [count] all 3 albums 37 aaaa 2011 14 bbbb 1963 11 cccc 1998 12 which would provide sorting on name, year, and song count: [album] [year v] [count] all 3 albums 37 bbbb 1963 11 cccc 1998 12 aaaa 2011 14 etc. Having the other property views (artist, genre, other things in other sources) sortable by song count would also be nice. The main problem left is that albums don't actually exist in rhythmbox, so there's no good way to associate years with them. This is something that we intend to fix, although no one has done any work on it as far as I know. _______________________________________________ rhythmbox-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/rhythmbox-devel
