Chronological sorting within artist and other help with basic setup

[Veganfloyd]

Hi,

Thank you very much for the programme. I am aiming for the following setup:

1. Sorting by year within artists.
2. Combining use of dates where some are only years and some have also months or months and days (yyyy mm dd format).
3. Ignoring "The" in alphabetic sorting of artists.
4. I would ideally remove the top buttons giving the numbers of albums and items, as well as Date, [folder view] and Local Playlists in the main screen. I am using MinimServer on Synology DS218+ and I use the HiFi Cast app, should it be relevant.

For #1-3, I put "Album.sortTags={+Date},Date.yearMonth.index,Artist.ignore.sort={The}" under tagOptions. I only got #1 correct. Dates with months or days end up at the bottom of the lists.