Albums sorted by Date

[simoncn]

The unwanted sort order for the Album index is shown on other control points as well as foobar2000. It is caused by a limitation in MinimServer (see below).

There are a number of issues with your settings, For some but not all of these issues there are workarounds.

1) Album.sortTags controls the sort order of the <n> albums list but does not control the sort order of the Album index. This is clear from reading the List sort order section but is not clear from reading the Tag options section. I will update the Tag options section to clarify this.

2) You can control the sort order of the Album index by using the Album.value.sort option of the tagValue property. For example, the setting Album.value.sort={Date} shows the Album list sorted by most recent date last. It isn't possible to change this to sort by most recent date first.

3) indexFormat isn't working for Album index entries because your files already have an Album tag and indexFormat doesn't replace an existing tag value. This limitation is described in the Index tag formatting section. To work around this limitation, you can create an AlbumIndex index and alias it to show as Album, as follows:

indexTags: AlbumIndex:Album
tagFormat: AlbumIndex.indexFormat={$album^$date^ (^)}

Taking all these together, your settings would be:

indexTags: AlbumArtist, Artist, AlbumIndex:Album, Release Date, Date, Genre, Title
tagOptions: AlbumArtist.ignore.sort={The}, Artist.ignore.sort={The}, Album.sortTags={Date, Album}
tagValue: Album.value.sort={Date}
tagFormat: Album.displayFormat={$album^$date^ (^)}, AlbumIndex.indexFormat={$album^$date^ (^)}

This almost does what you want but shows the Album index in reverse order from what you would like to see.

Is there a reason for using the Album index instead of the <n> albums list? The <n> albums list does everything you want and is simpler to configure.