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andrewt

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sorting albums by date?
« on: February 12, 2008, 09:18:58 am »

Is there a way that I can sort Albums in the Album pane by date, and not alphabetically?
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Re: sorting albums by date?
« Reply #1 on: February 12, 2008, 09:49:58 am »

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andrewt

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Re: sorting albums by date?
« Reply #2 on: February 12, 2008, 10:01:34 am »

Oh, I'm sorry, I wasn't clear enough. I'm in the panes view, and I would like just the Album pane to be sorted by date, so when I click on an artist in the Artist pane, the albums that show up in the Album pane are sorted by date, not alphabetically.
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Re: sorting albums by date?
« Reply #3 on: February 12, 2008, 11:10:18 am »

Oh, I'm sorry, I wasn't clear enough. I'm in the panes view, and I would like just the Album pane to be sorted by date, so when I click on an artist in the Artist pane, the albums that show up in the Album pane are sorted by date, not alphabetically.


You can make a pane of an expression like:
FormatDate([Date, 0], yyyy, No Date): [Album]

That would sort by year.
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Re: sorting albums by date?
« Reply #4 on: February 12, 2008, 11:23:23 am »

It is also possible to use the Year - Album field as a view scheme item (or create a new calculated user field).

I created a new view scheme with the following options:



The view scheme looks like this:


Click to enlarge.
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Re: sorting albums by date?
« Reply #5 on: February 12, 2008, 12:45:25 pm »

Perfect! Thanks.
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