I split this off because it isn't related.
You can do this. You need to customize the Views in Theater View. It will display whatever categories you want. It sounds like you don't want the [Artist] category you have in the view you're using.
All of the
Media Views in Theater View can be customized, just like those in Standard View. You do this in
Tools > Options > Theater View. Unfortunately, there isn't good documentation on this on the Wiki. But it sounds like what you want is quite simple, so you can probably figure it out.
The
Items to Show section shows your different available Views in Theater View. You can make new ones, or change settings for the existing ones by selecting them.
When you select one of them, it will show the settings for that View on the right-hand side of the dialog. There are a few different View types in Theater View. The ones you care about are the ones under Audio. I'm not sure which of the default ones you're using but it is probably the
Artist one. Anyway, find it and select it. Over on the right-hand side, you'll see a Details section, like this:
You can modify the one that is there if you'd like, but probably instead make a copy. So, assuming you are using the default Artist view currently, then do this:
1. Select
Audio in the list of Views (
not Artist this time, the top-level
Audio item).
2. Click the
Add button in the
Items to Show section and choose
Library Item.
3. This will make a new blank view called
New Library Item just underneath Audio.
4. Select it, and in the Details section, name it "Albums" or something similar.
5. Click the
Add button in the Details section and choose
Album from the list of fields in the Category Editor.
6. Click OK. This will add an Album category to the View, which you can see listed in the big box under Details.
7. Under the
Options drop down, de-select
Display All as a choice. This is Optional, but I'd probably recommend it for this kind of View.
8. If you want the View to have a particular sorting (or any other filters), click the
Set Rules for File Display button and add a sorting or search or whatever.
It is possible you've already tried this. The problem is that the sorting you apply in Step 8 above apply only to the file-level of Theater View (when looking at the list of actual files). When you're looking at the Album Thumbnails, you're looking at the
Category, not the files. And Categories have their own sorting. The default is
ascending, so your new Albums view will be sorted alphabetically by album name, not grouped by Artist.
That can be fixed. There are a few ways, but I think for your purposes, the simplest will probably be best.
1. Go back into the Albums View you made in Options, and select the
Album category you added, and click
Edit.
2. In the Category Editor, change the
Type to
Expression.
3. Name it
Albums, or maybe
Artist Albums. Your call.
4. In the Expression to group by box, put:
[Artist] - [Album]It should look like:
Click Ok and Ok, to back out of the Options dialog. Re-launch Theater View and you should have a new view called Albums that behaves more like what you want.
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