How to...with covers and sorting

[bvb09]

Hello Minim-friends,

being too old for learning so much about the deepness of a program I would like to ask the experts who can easily help:

I already installed Minim on my NAS (Synology DS214) and MinimWatch on my laptop. I want to hear my music with my NaimStreamer.
So let's go with my wishes:
first I want to choose a genre.
when chosen, I want to see all the covers of this genre BUT sorted in order of albumartist (and where no albumartist is filled in - then artist).

would be very kind and I hope not so difficult to explain.
Thx
Marcus

[simoncn]

(25-09-2014 05:31)bvb09 Wrote:  Hello Minim-friends,

being too old for learning so much about the deepness of a program I would like to ask the experts who can easily help:

I already installed Minim on my NAS (Synology DS214) and MinimWatch on my laptop. I want to hear my music with my NaimStreamer.
So let's go with my wishes:
first I want to choose a genre.
when chosen, I want to see all the covers of this genre BUT sorted in order of albumartist (and where no albumartist is filled in - then artist).

would be very kind and I hope not so difficult to explain.
Thx
Marcus

If you are using n-Stream as the control point, I don't think it will be possible to have custom sorting. This is because n-Stream ignores the sort order sent by the server and imposes its own alphabetical sort order.

[bvb09]

If you are using n-Stream as the control point, I don't think it will be possible to have custom sorting. This is because n-Stream ignores the sort order sent by the server and imposes its own alphabetical sort order.
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Thx Simon,

the support of Naim says it is the sorting of the server, the client (new naim-app or n-stream 4.0) just takes this sorting - true or not?

Marcus

[simoncn]

(25-09-2014 10:29)bvb09 Wrote:  Thx Simon,

the support of Naim says it is the sorting of the server, the client (new naim-app or n-stream 4.0) just takes this sorting - true or not?

Marcus

I'm pleased to hear that Naim has fixed this problem in n-Stream 4.0. You can sort a list of albums by Artist (or AlbumArtist if present) by adding the setting Album.sortTags={Artist, Album} to the tagOptions property.