Sort order for Titles

[Seasider]

Hi,

I have all my music showing in MinimServer (full edition), and I am trying to do the following:

Sort the titles listed under All Artists, which are listed in alphabetical order, in Date ascending order instead. Is this possible, and if so can you point me in the right direction regarding coding and Properties entry, please?

Thanks in advance.

[simbun]

To sort album titles by ascending date use the tagOptions setting:

Code:

Album.sortTags={+Date, Album}

[Seasider]

(29-05-2024 13:33)simbun Wrote:  To sort album titles by ascending date use the tagOptions setting:

Code:

Album.sortTags={+Date, Album}

Thanks for your swift response.

I apologise for not making my query as clear as I should! What I am actually trying to do is to sort the track titles to be listed in date order under 'All Artists', and in A-Z order under 'Albums', (or vice versa).

Don't know if this is possible.

Sorry for the confusion.

[simbun]

(29-05-2024 14:44)Seasider Wrote:  I apologise for not making my query as clear as I should! What I am actually trying to do is to sort the track titles to be listed in date order under 'All Artists', and in A-Z order under 'Albums', (or vice versa).

No problem, I should have asked for clarification.

In the MinimServer browse tree (what you see in your control point) you have the 'albums' and 'items' lists (for want of a better word), and a number of indexes that allow you to subset your "lists" by the tags in your files (I'm ignoring playlists for this explanation).

Whilst making index selections does subset the "lists" they are otherwise completely independent of your selections i.e. it doesn't matter how you get to the lists, they're always sorted and displayed the same way (as defined in your configuration), or to put it another way, you can only have one sort order per object (items, albums, each index).

I hope that makes sense?

Surely you'd want your tracks to be sorted by discnumber and tracknumber once you've selected an album ("and in A-Z order under 'Albums'")?

[Seasider]

(29-05-2024 16:16)simbun Wrote:  

(29-05-2024 14:44)Seasider Wrote:  I apologise for not making my query as clear as I should! What I am actually trying to do is to sort the track titles to be listed in date order under 'All Artists', and in A-Z order under 'Albums', (or vice versa).

No problem, I should have asked for clarification.

In the MinimServer browse tree (what you see in your control point) you have the 'albums' and 'items' lists (for want of a better word), and a number of indexes that allow you to subset your "lists" by the tags in your files (I'm ignoring playlists for this explanation).

Whilst making index selections does subset the "lists" they are otherwise completely independent of your selections i.e. it doesn't matter how you get to the lists, they're always sorted and displayed the same way (as defined in your configuration), or to put it another way, you can only have one sort order per object (items, albums, each index).

I hope that makes sense?

Surely you'd want your tracks to be sorted by discnumber and tracknumber once you've selected an album ("and in A-Z order under 'Albums'")?

Thanks for your speedy answer again Simon.

I am a peculiar animal in that I collect single music tracks, and store them in one big folder on my PC. I tag them in the 'Album' field by their artist names, thus creating virtual 'Greatest Hits Collection' albums. It harks back to my D.J. days of having a large record box full of 7" singles to pick from! Strange it may be - but it works for me!

MinimServer works for me on every other level - I'm enjoying viewing my music collection from the other configurable angles!

Thanks again

Clive.

[simbun]

(29-05-2024 18:46)Seasider Wrote:  I am a peculiar animal in that I collect single music tracks, and store them in one big folder on my PC. I tag them in the 'Album' field by their artist names, thus creating virtual 'Greatest Hits Collection' albums. It harks back to my D.J. days of having a large record box full of 7" singles to pick from! Strange it may be - but it works for me!

The BubbleUPnP control point allows you to sort tracks by: Title, Artist, Year (Asc/Desc) and Track Number.
This functionality is available when viewing tracks from the [n] items list, but at the album level BubbleUPnP assumes discnumber > tracknumber.

The only way to override the sort order for an "album" would be to use folder view ([Folder view]), but then you'd need to group your "albums" into separate folders, and lose the functionality of tag view.

I did try indexing Album (thinking if I could select [n] items from there I could override the default sort), but as soon as you're down to a single album MinimServer takes you to the [n] albums listing.

Maybe your control point is different.

[Seasider]

I'll keep enjoying investigating the options!

Thanks again for your help Simon.