Bugzilla – Bug 305
Add option to specify sort order of album art.
Last modified: 2008-12-15 13:05:36 UTC
patrick cosson suggested this improvement to album art browsing: Ability to sort album art by artists (then sorted by title), genre (then sorted by title), in addition to title (as is currently done). Ability in server settings to select default for album art sort.
This is entirely non-trivial. It requres a complete rework of the infocache. Artwork is piggybacked on the Browse By Album. To re-sort artwork means albums would need to be resorted too. Thsi requires an %albumcache, similar to %genrecache. Memory footprint would grow a lot.
*** Bug 623 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Dan, does this seem like an easy implementation for post-6.0?
If you can add the prefs for it, it should be pretty trivial right now.
how about a pulldown with a selection of heirarchies? if that fits, I just need a list of otions that you can handle.
Moving bugs that won't be immediately fixed in 6.1 release. Please review and update if this is an error or if this bug has already been fixed. Thanks.
I really like your suggestion for a pulldown with sort order. A pref would only be needed if you wanted users to be able to designate an initial default. A better idea might be a cookie that remembers the most recent setting. Killing two birds, using a cookie would also make this a soft of user pref rather than a system pref. My suggestions for order/hierarchies, if it could be done: Album (as it is now) Artist, Album Artist, Year, Album Genre, Album Genre, Artist, Album Genre, Artist, Year, Album Year, Album Year, Artist, Album Year, Genre, Album Year, Genre, Artist, Album That pretty much covers the permutaions. :) I think the last three might only be useful with very large collections, though. The (small) irony here would be that this ability to designate sort orders would be much more flexible than in any of the other browse modes. I'll bet it would become far and away the most used web UI browsing mode if users had this kind of flexibility, plus you get artwork.
*** Bug 2167 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 2360 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
This would be a great enhancement. just one more "wish" -- it would be useful to show artist and album information below the artwork; how about taking up a couple of lines for this purpose?
This has been completed as of changes 9574 & 9575.
seems fixed. remaining issue covered by bug 4079
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