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[tombert]

Hi,

currently playing with my DLNA TV and adding the AUDIO section I run into one problem:
Having thousands of Artists/Albums makes it difficult to scroll to the desired Artist/Album, therefore I arranged it the following way:

Album (grouped by 1)
Album (no grouping)

But still having some folders with hundreds of Artists/Albums - so I thought - ok lets add another grouping section:

Album (grouped by 1)
Album (grouped by 2)
Album (no grouping)

This way unfort. it didn't work ... because my original intention was to group by the second letter i.e.

First grouping goes from A-Z
Imagine you select H, then the next grouping should go from HA-HZ

The trick would be to allow configuration of the letter index to group, which defaults to the first letter. The second group I would set to the second letter. Personally I think this would be a very helpful browsing enhancement and not to much complicated to implement to.

thx
thomas

[Rob L]

yeah, I agree... I think... assuming I've understood you correctly! I think this is something I've thought about in the past too.

so for anything that's a long list - not necessarily just lists of albums - you'd be funnelling down through each letter of the name.

You'd need an "all" option at the top I guess?

So at the top level, you'd have an "All" entry follow by every letter of the alphabet for which you have entries. So if you only had Abba, Coldplay, ELO, Stevie Wonder, Suzanne Vega, U2, you'd have A, C, E, S and U.

Then at the next level if you chose "S", you'd have "ST" followed by "SU".

So you get a kind of keyboard function effectively.

Is that what you meant?

[tombert]

exactly

[Matt]

I think you can do this now using expressions (save for the grouping of special characters, which probably isn't a big deal).

In your view categories, use expressions like:

Letter 1: Mid([Album Artist (auto)], 0, 1)
Letter 2: Mid([Album Artist (auto)], 1, 1)
Then end with a field category [Album Artist (auto)]

[tombert]

thx - works nearly perfect ... except that the first letter goes missing that way e.g. by Stevie Wonder I first see S and then only t ... St would be nicer ... but I guess I have to live with that ...

[MarkCoutinho]

Sounds exactly like what I'd want to do with my videoclips.
But I don't understand where I have to place this code. Where is that? In the upper left pane part, under (in my case) Video: Add Library View?
If yes: than what?

Hope you can fill me out on this one.

[Matt]

Sounds exactly like what I'd want to do with my videoclips.

When customizing views (in Standard View, Theater View, or DLNA views) where it says 'Show Categories In This Order', use 'Add...' to create new categories.

On the 'Category' popup, select 'Expression' on the left.  Then enter the expressions I listed above.