I have something on the order of 500GB of music, with varying quality of tags. Anything I have ripped in the last few years is flac with perfect/consistent tags, but I have some older rips of dubious origin that may be less than clear, and have not yet been scrubbed.
Yesterday I started playing with the new Thin Panes view....really love it. However, I found some odd behavior in sorting that switching to this view from my previous tile oriented world.
1) My previous standard view was Album thumbnails in a "tile" view, sorted by Filename(path). By using a consistent Artist/Album directory structure, this gave me the ordering I wanted (I used "Zappa, Frank" as opposed to sorting by "Frank Zappa" artists).
2) I switched to the new thin panes view (didn't like the look of panes previously), and told it to sort in the same manner.
3) I immediately noticed that a group of album thumbnails were at the top of the list prior to "AC/DC", which had previously been first.
4) A little digging a tag investigation taught me that there were certain scenarios that cause these files to ignore the requested sort order, and instead be dropped at the top of the list.
What needs to happen:
-2 sets of files, each in their own directory, each consisting of a full album, each with the same album name.
I had these from a few different scenarios:
-An old MP3 copy, with a newer recent FLAC copy in a different directory
-A live show, where I had recordings from 2 different sources, each with the same album name ("Live 2004-12-13 Seattle")
-A multi-disk set, with each disk in a separate sub directory, made the album name the same, but never set the disk number
-2 versions of the same album - one the original, one a newer remastered version with the same tracks. This was not given a unique album name in this case, but had the same name as the original.
So, is this intentional? It is confusing, but if you believe you should never have albums tagged like this, I guess you could argue that it is highlighting poor quality tags for you to address by dropping them on top......but it definitely added confusion while trying to create a view scheme I liked.