My third wish

[simbun]

(03-08-2023 22:01)simoncn Wrote:  

(03-08-2023 21:39)simbun Wrote:  This will mean though that if you viewed 'n albums' from anywhere other than the Series index, the albums will appear out of order, because they're first sorted by SeriesSort then album name. I hope that makes sense.

I think it would make all the "series" albums appear first in their "series sort" order followed by other albums in their "album" order. This seems fairly intuitive.

It is if you're expecting it, just wanted to head off any confusion.
I did think you could have defined a succinct SERIESORT then used it in:

Code:

Album.displayFormat={$SeriesSort^^ - ^$Album}

So it would have made it more obvious, but it would have made the Series album listing a bit repetitive.

(03-08-2023 22:19)simoncn Wrote:  My proposal builds on the current approach for albums/discs and tracks/groups, so it should (hopefully) be fairly straightforward to implement and also easy to explain to users. As far as I know, the AlbumGroup and AlbumNumber tags are not currently used for any other purpose. Perhaps AlbumGroupNumber or AlbumGroupIndex would be better than AlbumNumber, as AlbumNumber could mean something else. I am currently leaning towards AlbumGroupIndex but might have changed my preference by tomorrow

I currently use TrackIndex where a track contains sub-indexes (and I've split them out), so Index gets my vote.