[slim] How can I have albums sorted chronologically?
I'll take an interest in any device, any plugin, any skin that can do this: Select an artist/band and have their albums sorted chronologically. It seems such a simple feature, yet I can find it nowhere in the Squeezebox universe (that I've tried) nor in many other media player software for that matter. I guess I'm crazy for prefering chronological sorting. I'm currently using the web interface and SqueezeCommander to control my squeezeboxes. Both only give alphabetical sorting of an artist's albums. Erland of plugin fame suggested it might be possible with CustomBrowse and one of the CB WebUI skins, but CustomBrowse (which I have) seems to be made of XML-nightmares and it's not something I think I can manage to tinker with, so I'm looking for other options. -- Kvaks Kvaks's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=21610 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=92315 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] How can I have albums sorted chronologically?
Kvaks;676978 Wrote: I'll take an interest in any device, any plugin, any skin that can do this: Select an artist/band and have their albums sorted chronologically. It seems such a simple feature, yet I can find it nowhere in the Squeezebox universe (that I've tried) nor in many other media player software for that matter. I guess I'm crazy for prefering chronological sorting. I'm currently using the web interface and SqueezeCommander to control my squeezeboxes. Both only give alphabetical sorting of an artist's albums. Erland of plugin fame suggested it might be possible with CustomBrowse and one of the CB WebUI skins, but CustomBrowse (which I have) seems to be made of XML-nightmares and it's not something I think I can manage to tinker with, so I'm looking for other options. Actually, SqueezeCommander should sort albums of an artist by year. That's even the default, but it can be changed to have the albums sorted alphabetically (Settings / Sort Albums by Name). Please make sure that Sort Albums by Name is NOT enabled in SqueezeCommander's Settings. If it is not enabled, but the albums are still not sorted by year, please drop me a line, because that would be a bug. -- flattermann Christian Home of 'SqueezeCommander' (http://www.squeezecommander.com) - The SqueezeBox Remote Control App for Android flattermann's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33169 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=92315 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] How can I have albums sorted chronologically?
Kvaks;676978 Wrote: I'll take an interest in any device, any plugin, any skin that can do this: Select an artist/band and have their albums sorted chronologically. Would it be good enough to view albums sorted by artist/band and year? That's quite easily done with the default web ui skin and several other interfaces. I can see how that would be cumbersome for people with huge collections, as the grouping (not the sorting) is by albums rather than artists. But I find it works great with my modest collection of about 600 albums. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=92315 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] How can I have albums sorted chronologically?
Yes albums inside an artist folder shoul be posible to sort by year ! There is an exeptionally neglected bug report about it... Drummroll http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=112 enjoy and vote for it :) it's only 80 votes -- Mnyb Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC 2 xMeridianDSP3100 +Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: Touch + powered Fostex PM0.4 Misc use: Radio (with battery) iPad 64gB wifi +3g with iPengHD SqueezePad (in storage SB3, reciever ,controller ) Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=92315 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] How can I have albums sorted chronologically?
flattermann;676980 Wrote: Actually, SqueezeCommander should sort albums of an artist by year. That's even the default, but it can be changed to have the albums sorted alphabetically (Settings / Sort Albums by Name). Please make sure that Sort Albums by Name is NOT enabled in SqueezeCommander's Settings. I wasn't using the latest version of SqueezeCommander, but updated now and found this option. But like you said, it seems to only apply to the main built in menus, nowhere else. I understand what you say about CustomBrowse, but is it possible to use chronological sorting when accessing through Browse by Selected? I don't ever use the main menus (they're too slow to scroll through when you have 3000 albums), but I very often use the Browse by Selected feature (by, say, press and hold on a song or an album and pick Artist: ... in the pop up menu). BTW, kudos for not using -reverse- chronological order (newest first), which many do. aubuti;676982 Wrote: Would it be good enough to view albums sorted by artist/band and year? That's quite easily done with the default web ui skin and several other interfaces. I can see how that would be cumbersome for people with huge collections, as the grouping (not the sorting) is by albums rather than artists. I'm not sure what you mean. Could you be more specific? :-) (I have around 3000 albums and don't use the main menus, except to browse by genre (but that's just because there's no genre-search in the WebUI).) Mnyb;676983 Wrote: There is an exeptionally neglected bug report about it... Drummroll http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=112 enjoy and vote for it :) it's only 80 votes Oh, I think I actually gave that bugreport a vote years ago! The suggestion in the comments there about adding an ALBUMSORT tag is interesting, especially if it will work in any contest (main menus, browse-by-selected, custombrowse). -- Kvaks Kvaks's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=21610 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=92315 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] How can I have albums sorted chronologically?
Kvaks;676994 Wrote: I wasn't using the latest version of SqueezeCommander, but updated now and found this option. But like you said, it seems to only apply to the main built in menus, nowhere else. I understand what you say about CustomBrowse, but is it possible to use chronological sorting when accessing through Browse by Selected? I don't ever use the main menus (they're too slow to scroll through when you have 3000 albums), but I very often use the Browse by Selected feature (by, say, press and hold on a song or an album and pick Artist: ... in the pop up menu). BTW, kudos for not using -reverse- chronological order (newest first), which many do. Ah, ok, you are right, it seems that it does not work there. Could you please open a ticket in the tracker? http://www.squeezecommander.com/trac/ I'll see if I can make the option work in these menus as well. -- flattermann Christian Home of 'SqueezeCommander' (http://www.squeezecommander.com) - The SqueezeBox Remote Control App for Android flattermann's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33169 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=92315 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] How can I have albums sorted chronologically?
I wanted this for a while and a problem with compilation albums (I tag each songs original release year) meant that it didn't work satifactorarilily. I bit the bullet and entered an ALBUMSORT tag which means everything is chronological within each artist, exactly as I wanted and I think as you desire. My albumsort tag was firstly made by copying the YEAR tags from track 1 of the non-VA albums and the highest value from the Various Artist albums. I then went through and updated the oddities - mostly from people who released two albums a year. I went for 2011a and 2011b for example. M. -- InTheBath InTheBath's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15679 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=92315 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] How can I have albums sorted chronologically?
aubuti;676982 Wrote: Would it be good enough to view albums sorted by artist/band and year? That's quite easily done with the default web ui skin and several other interfaces. I can see how that would be cumbersome for people with huge collections, as the grouping (not the sorting) is by albums rather than artists. But I find it works great with my modest collection of about 600 albums. Kvaks;676994 Wrote: I'm not sure what you mean. Could you be more specific? :-) (I have around 3000 albums and don't use the main menus, except to browse by genre (but that's just because there's no genre-search in the WebUI).) It's simple. In the main menu (on the web ui, SB Duet Controller, iPeng, probably SqueezeCommander, etc) go to My Music Albums. You get a list of albums. I think the default sorting is by album title across all artists (yuck!), but there are options to sort by Artist / Year or Artist / Year / Album, which is essentially what you are asking for. The main difference is that in album browsing the unit of observation is an album, instead of an artist. So when browsing albums you get a very flat presentation of your library, just as if the physical disks were arranged on a shelf. Even though each line is an album, the _sorting_ can be by Artist / Year (in chronological order, not reverse chronological). When browsing by artists (which is what I think you're saying you want), you would browse artists and then go a level deeper to see the individual albums. Is that clearer? -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=92315 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
