'Album Sort' - unexpected behaviour

[RSJ]

(09-03-2022 23:40)simbun Wrote:  

Code:

AlbumArtist    Album                        AlbumSort
Haitink        Beethoven Symphony No. 9    Beethoven Symphony Haitink No. 9
Karajan        Beethoven Symphony No. 9    Beethoven Symphony Karajan No. 9

Sinbun, thank you for your very helpful reply.

Your assumption about my tags is almost right. However, the relevant tags I have populated are as follows:

Album: Beethoven Symphony No. 9
AlbumSort: Beethoven Symphony Karajan No. 9
Conductor: Herbert von Karajan
AlbumArtist: Berlin Philharmonic

[RSJ]

(09-03-2022 17:00)simbun Wrote:  If you change tagValue to:
Artist.Value.Sort={AlbumArtist}, AlbumSort.default={Album}

and then have tagOptions:
Album.sortTags={Composer, AlbumSort}

Does that give you what you want?

This gives me exactly the sort order that I want. However, it causes the Linn Kazoo control point to lose the vertical alphabetical index on the right hand side.

[simoncn]

This is because the list is not in alphabetical order from the perspective of what Kazoo can see.

[RSJ]

Is there a change I can make to persuade Kazoo it is an alphabetically sorted list?

[simoncn]

As far as I know, the only way to do this is to make the list alphabetically sorted.

[simbun]

Unfortunately that's the price you pay for having a non-alphabetical display order.

I prefer to have my albums displayed in chronological order, so I have the year of original release as the first part of the album name, which means that 95%+ of my albums start with 1, so I also effectively lose the benefit of being able to use the alphabetical scroll, but then by the time I get to my album list I've almost always subset it to a small enough group where scrolling down the list isn't a problem anyway.

If you find yourself scrolling through huge album lists often, you could use alphaGroups. When enabled, MinimServer will provide an alphabetical index selection (once you have descended to your album view) that can be used to filter your albums further.

The syntax is simply:

Code:

alphaGroup: albums=n

Where n represents the minimum album list size for which alphabetical selection will be offered e.g. if you specify albums=1, then you'll nearly always see the index selection, whereas if you specify albums=99999 you'll never see it.

[RSJ]

Thank you. I think this works very well as a second best. At the moment, in Kazoo, if I select 'show all', I then get two options 'hide contents' and 'view all'. Is it possible to go straight from 'show all' to a complete album listing?

[simoncn]

This is not possible. For an explanation, see this section.