Alpha Group for Albums sorted by Artist?

[timster]

(06-01-2016 10:56)simoncn Wrote:  

(06-01-2016 09:24)timster Wrote:  Thanks for looking into it Simon - I would hope there won't be any concerns, like you say it makes sense that if one wants to sort items on a particular tag that the same sort would want to be applied when grouping them.

Unfortunately, there are some problems with this. For example, many people sort albums by Date but using the date for alpha-grouping wouldn't be useful. (Grouping by years or decades would be more appropriate.) Also, if the tag used for sorting doesn't physically appear on screen in the album list, alpha-grouping by something invisible could be very confusing.

An alternative approach for viewing an album list grouped by artist name is to use the Artist index. This displays a list of alpha-grouped artists and you can select any artist name to view the albums for that artist. This approach also solves the "date" and "invisible tag" issues.

Yes I see the issues there. The other approach you mention isn't really what I was looking for. Shame.

But.. but seeing as Minim is so powerful, I wonder if it could be an option rather than a feature (if you see what I mean) in a future major release? A new alphaGroupSortOptions field in Server Properties could be an option list, so in my case putting "album" in the list would make it sort by the first field in album.sorttags (as initially thought). If its not in the list then it'll sort by the default tag. Or even an option flag in the SortTags field - if true, group will be sorted by the tag too.

Possible?