Alpha Group for Albums sorted by Artist?

[Briain]

(05-01-2016 22:11)simoncn Wrote:  

(05-01-2016 09:25)timster Wrote:  I currently have my albums sorted by Artist using the tag option Album.sortTags={Artist, Album}. This mean all my albums are listed in artist order which is my preference. However I have many albums and would like to put the albums in an alpha group for easier access.

When I do this, the albums are split by album title (so all albums beginning with A for example), but what I would like is for them to be split by artist (i.e. all albums by artists beginning with A). Is this possible please?

Many thanks.

Thanks for this suggestion. I think it would make sense to use the first tag in sortTags to do alpha-grouping (for all lists that support sortTags). I will investigate this and post back here.

Does anyone have any concerns about making this change to how alpha-grouping works?

Hi

I've about 4000 albums and have set alpha-grouping to kick in anywhere where a container exceeds 200 items. Mostly, I use albumArtist -> album to find stuff and the current system seems to be ideal, so I can't quite get my head around what's being proposed. In fact, I actually use something more complex than that as I actually use the Ensemble value (with it set to display as 'Album Artists' on the CP menu, so perhaps any change would not even be noticed by me? I do occasionally use artist, but only when trying to find a 'one hit wonder', for example, from my compilations.

Are you thinking that navigating into the albums container, then after opening the 'Z' sub-container you would find the album 'Afterburner' (by ZZ Top), for example, or am I totally misunderstanding the request (I'm assuming you aren't suggesting that, but I'm just using that to highlight my confusion over what is being proposed)?

Could you perhaps give an example of the navigation route being proposed (perhaps using the above and other examples) such that I can get my head round what's being proposed?

Whatever is being proposed, I love the system that I am currently using (so Afterburner is in the Albums -> A container, which is where it should be located), so as long as any changes are optional, I can see no harm in it (though it's not something I'd like to use).

All the best
Bri

PS Apologies if I'm being thick; I suspect that I am just not understanding what's being suggested (thus the request for an example).