Alpha Group for Albums sorted by Artist?

[timster]

(07-01-2016 00:48)Martin H Wrote:  Briain. Doesn't the search feature give you the answer to your scenario already though. i.e. you type in Z and the artists beginning with Z would be listed - you choose the artist you were looking for. Or is the scenario that you can remember it starts with a Z but still can't remember the name when you see the list? Which seems unlikely.

TBH with my memory these days I needs a search that interprets thingy that played in that band thingymajig with so and so. So I regularly use search to track down things.

To check back on the problem. It's because when you have a lot of albums scrolling through the artists list takes too long (I have almost 3700 now) and the idea is you can select the letter of the alphabet that the artist begins with and then instead of seeing the artists listed - the requirement is to see all of the albums listed but grouped in alphabetical order within groupings for each artist - also in order. Is that it?

If that is right then I would still say this has likely been superceded by the availability of search hasn't it? I may be missing something still. Apologies but I was just trying to support Timster because I couldn't see a lot of answers. It's interesting how hard it is to understand something sometimes that is so obvious to someone else purely to differing habits/experiences.

Martin, thanks for the support. Yes, you got it right. Too many artists/albums to scroll through, hence the alphagroups. It is perhaps that my preference for the '# albums' to be listed in order of artist rather than album name is a little unusual but all I was suggesting was that if albums were also alphagroup'd I'd like the same rule to be applied (rather than it reverting to default album-name sorting).

Like I said, it's not a search thing, it's a browse thing. At the moment I scroll through my albums and see what I fancy - usually a bit random as scrolling isn't an exact science! And on the same screen I can also scroll to a particular artist if I wish, without having to think of a particular album or go up and down again through the artist route. Using alphagroups as it is at the moment I could say to myself, let's browse through "T" today, and it'll be all albums beginning with T, which is inconsistent with my sort preference (which would return all albums by artists beginning with T).

No biggy, but I guess it's consistency in the way it sorts is what I'm getting at.