Is different Album sorting per Index possible
|
26-01-2020, 13:21
Post: #1
|
|||
|
|||
Is different Album sorting per Index possible
Album.sortTags influences album sorting on all indexes. Is it possible to differentiate this behavior? I can't find a clue (if it is possible or not) within the Minimserver properties guide.
Goal: I like to set "<n> Albums" sorting different than "Album" sorting within Artist. |
|||
26-01-2020, 22:02
Post: #2
|
|||
|
|||
RE: Is different Album sorting per Index possible
It isn't possible to sort albums in a different order in different places.
|
|||
29-11-2020, 13:48
Post: #3
|
|||
|
|||
RE: Is different Album sorting per Index possible
I've just implemented this myself and thought the essence of it might be useful to others, so I'm attaching it to the most relevant Thread I can find.
By the time I look at a list of albums I've either selected an albumartist or have chosen to look at compilations, so I wanted two different approaches to sorting them.
Using the tagUpdate functionality. Code: @ALBUMARTIST=Various Artists itemTags : CustomAlbumSort tagOptions: Album.sortTags={AlbumArtist,+CustomAlbumSort,+Album} tagValue : CustomAlbumSort.default={Date} You don't need AlbumArtist in the sortTags, but for scenarios where I haven't restricted to AlbumArtist or Compilation it keeps the sort order consistent i.e. by date within AlbumArtist and by name within Compilations (assuming Compilations are identified by AlbumArtist=Various Artists). |
|||
30-11-2020, 13:03
Post: #4
|
|||
|
|||
RE: Is different Album sorting per Index possible
I've continued down the rabbit hole and taken it one step further so I can have artist albums prefixed with year (as they're sorted by year), and compilations without (as they're sorted alphabetically and the release date has no real meaning to a compilation).
First I remove all Dates for compilations, adding the deleted values back to a new tag called FULLDATE as I still want the metadata to be available for other things e.g. Date.decade.index.sort (I don't want unknown to appear if I haven't already filtered out Compilations). tagUpdate Code: @DATE=1983 Then I rename Date to DateExcldngCmpltns (Date Excluding Compilations) and FullDate to Date and fill the blanks with values from DateExcldngCmpltns (which will bring it back to 100% population). aliasTags : Date:DateExcldngCmpltns,FullDate:Date itemTags : DateExcldngCmpltns tagValue : Date.default={DateExcldngCmpltns} Finally I set the sort order and the display format of the album. tagOptions : Album.sortTags={AlbumArtist,+DateExcldngCmpltns,+Album} tagFormat : Album.displayFormat={$DateExcldngCmpltns^^ - $Album} |
|||
« Next Oldest | Next Newest »
|
User(s) browsing this thread: 1 Guest(s)