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Chronological sorting within artist and other help with basic setup
03-08-2020, 18:11
Post: #1
Chronological sorting within artist and other help with basic setup
Hi,

Thank you very much for the programme. I am aiming for the following setup:

1. Sorting by year within artists.
2. Combining use of dates where some are only years and some have also months or months and days (yyyy mm dd format).
3. Ignoring "The" in alphabetic sorting of artists.
4. I would ideally remove the top buttons giving the numbers of albums and items, as well as Date, [folder view] and Local Playlists in the main screen. I am using MinimServer on Synology DS218+ and I use the HiFi Cast app, should it be relevant.

For #1-3, I put "Album.sortTags={+Date},Date.yearMonth.index,Artist.ignore.sort={The}" under tagOptions. I only got #1 correct. Dates with months or days end up at the bottom of the lists.
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03-08-2020, 19:56
Post: #2
RE: Chronological sorting within artist and other help with basic setup
For #2, you need Date.yearMonth.index.sort or Date.yearOnly.index.sort

For #3, you might also need to add AlbumArtist.ignore.sort={The}

For #4, it is not possible to remove these index entries.
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04-08-2020, 10:09
Post: #3
RE: Chronological sorting within artist and other help with basic setup
Hi,

Thank you very much for the prompt reply. Unfortunately, the solution for #2 does not produce desired results using either option. Albums with month or month and date after year (e.g. 1967 01) remain at the bottom of the lists (after e.g. 1971). Can you please suggest what else I can try?
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04-08-2020, 12:05
Post: #4
RE: Chronological sorting within artist and other help with basic setup
The UPnP standard requires year and month to be tagged 1967-01, not 1967 01. If there is a day of month, it must be 1967-01-01. I think this is why it isn't working for you.
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04-08-2020, 13:33
Post: #5
RE: Chronological sorting within artist and other help with basic setup
Thank you, again. I tried adding the hyphen and it did not help. I checked if extending the year-month dates to year-month-day would help but it did not.
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04-08-2020, 13:56
Post: #6
RE: Chronological sorting within artist and other help with basic setup
Do you have alphaGroup set? In MinimServer 0.8, this can cause an incorrect sort order for the Date tag (see this thread). This problem is fixed in MinimServer 2.
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04-08-2020, 14:02
Post: #7
RE: Chronological sorting within artist and other help with basic setup
This field is empty, so I guess it is not set. I am using MinimServer 2.
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04-08-2020, 14:23
Post: #8
RE: Chronological sorting within artist and other help with basic setup
Please post your profile (use the Profiles tab + View subtab to view it) and I will check it for anything that could cause this.

Did you do a MinimServer rescan after changing the format of your dates?

Please also post a screenshot showing the problem.
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04-08-2020, 16:31
Post: #9
RE: Chronological sorting within artist and other help with basic setup
Thank you, here it is:

contentDir = {/volume1/music}{/volume1/music2}
indexTags = Artist, Genre, Date
mergeFolderAlbums = true
tagOptions = Album.sortTags={+Date},Date.yearMonth.index.sort,AlbumArtist.ignore.sort={The}

Attached is a screenshot from Hi-Fi cast and a preview of dates in Mp3Tag. As I just noticed, the two albums with full dates that get chucked to the bottom of the list have reverse chronological order (while the year-only albums are sorted chronologically).

Yes, I did a rescan, as well as a re-start of my controller app.


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04-08-2020, 16:40
Post: #10
RE: Chronological sorting within artist and other help with basic setup
Sorry, I cannot attach the screenshot of Hi-Fi cast due to file size limit.
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