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joelha:
MrC,

Thanks for hanging in there with me on this.

The attached view is what I now have.

What I'd like is for each song to be grouped by album and I'd like to see the screen split, like my artist view, so that when I click on an album, the list of songs appears on the lower part of the screen.

Is csimon correct about "date created" not being a sorting option?

If so, that's going to be a big crimp in my plans, unfortunately. Date imported is just not going to work for me as I've re-imported my albums many times over the years.

Thanks for chiming in about that, csimon.

Essentially, what I want to be able to do is now which albums I possibly haven't listened to yet after I've purchased them and added them to my music server. By sorting by date created, I can review those purchases.

Thanks very much.

Joel

MrC:
The songs you see in the Categories view (top portion) are broken into separate items because each Date Created per track is different (minutes and seconds matter here).  That's why I suggested using an expression to only use the year/month/day portion. Try the Date Created view I showed you.

The file list at the bottom of the screen (which I show in the screenshots above) appears after you hover over a thumbnail, and select one of the choices from the menu that appears.  Alternatively, set the Always show files setting when you customize the view for the file list to always appear.  (see attached).

You can sort by anything.  Just use the Sort By > Custom... > Add and add Date Created as the sort criteria.

Keep in mind - some tracks may have been created on a different day, so when you select Album under a Date Created selection, you may only see a portion of any given album.

Make sense?

csimon:
Ah, I forgot about Custom!!

csimon:
OH....no I didn't!  There is no Custom option in the Sorting box.  Now I'm confused...

csimon:
I think the difference is whether you want the dates to appear as separate categories as shown above, or whether you want them "invisible" and just have the artists sorted by the date.

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