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joelha:
While I'll be off-line for the next couple of days, I see I didn't explain what I was looking for very well.

Sorry about that.

On the left side of the screen, under Audio, there are other selectable options i.e. artist, genres, albums, etc.

What I'm looking for is a way to have "date modified" as an option.

While I've been able to do this for DSF files, I can't seem to make it work for "date modified".

All I ever get is a just an alpha-sort of artists and albums.

Thanks in advance for whatever help you can offer.

Joel

MrC:
I don't know what JRemote will present, so let's start with this caveat.

Nonetheless, it sounds like you want a new view scheme under Audio, called "by Date Modified".

Right click Audio, and select Add Library View.
Select Empty View, change the Location to Audio, and then name it something like "by Date Modified", and click OK.
Set the view type to either Panes or Categories, as desired.
Click the Add button to add the category "Date Modified" from the list.  Set the sort order to Ascending or Descending.
Now you'll have a view where the left side (tree) can expand to show the various Date Modified values for all your files, and on the right will be either your panes or categories showing those same Date Modified values.

However, you'll probably find this view not so useful, as the time values may frustrate your viewing and grouping.  Probably you're going to want only the Date portion, and that is easy enough to achieve.  When you return, ask for more help if I'm on the right track with your needs, or give some course correction if not.

csimon:
JRemote uses the WebGizmo views, so to set up a view that JRemote will present then create it in Media Netowrk/WebGizmo views rather than the standard desktop view.

I have modified my album within artist views to sort by date of album rather than alphabetically, but I can't remember if Date Modified (as opposed to the album date) is offered as a choice for sorting.

joelha:
I'm sorry I haven't had a chance to work with this sooner, however, I'm still not getting the view I want.

In the DSF image, you'll see that I have a custom library on the left side of the screen which allows me to bring up only DSF files grouped by artist and then by album.

I want to do the same thing for Date Created.

However, when I do (what I believe is) the same process, all I ever get is an alpha-sort of all my albums. Please refer to the "Date Created" image to see what I'm trying.

Thanks for any help you can offer. I'm sure I must be missing something simple here, but I just can't figure out what it is.

Joel

MrC:
Here's a panes view, first grouped by Date Modified.  You can see that browsing in the tree shows all the date modified (categories) available in my library:



A possible problem with this view may be that it includes the time (hour, minutes) - it might be better presented without times.  For this, we use an expression to reformat the date:



Now I can see all the tracks modified on any given date.

Note that the file list sorting and grouping is controlled by the Group By setting.

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