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Title: How do you sort your albums?
Post by: wombat66 on June 01, 2008, 12:44:01 am

I've seen people do it both ways, but I have to go with chronologically. I don't know why, but this is the way I've always sorted LP's and CD's on the shelf. The same way as any discography would sort.

Title: Re: How do you sort your albums?
Post by: marko on June 01, 2008, 06:11:50 am

I have an equal split between chronologically and 'date imported'

depends how I feel on the day ;)

Title: Re: How do you sort your albums?
Post by: Frobozz on June 01, 2008, 06:19:45 am

I'd like to sort the albums chronologically, but I'd have to fix up the date fields in all my albums.  Some are tagged date of initial release, others are date of remastering, others have a date that is from somewhere else.  I'd have to fix that all up.  That's a project for another day (week, month, eon).

Then I'd get to my classical music and find that the copyright date of the album makes little sense in terms of a chronological listing and decide that I've got yet another large tag cleanup project in front of me.

In the interest of not wanting to take on such a project I stick with alphabetical.

Title: Re: How do you sort your albums?
Post by: steveklein on June 01, 2008, 09:49:37 am

^^^  so true



...but i've taken on that project and sort them chronologically. i've got about 3,900 albums. i'm missing dates for about 250 of them, and i'm sure about 100 are tagged incorrectly, but i try to fix it as i see mistakes.

Title: Re: How do you sort your albums?
Post by: MusicHawk on June 01, 2008, 10:36:43 pm

I don't actually sort by Artist > Albums, because it's not very helpful in my library. I have hundreds of "Various Artists" albums (which I abbreviate VA), so drilling into albums by starting at Artist is too many clicks. Instead, at the top level of Audio I have separate views for Artists (a custom multi-value field), Albums (titles), Genres, Keywords, Year (of original recording), and Name (of song).

Title: Re: How do you sort your albums?
Post by: gappie on June 02, 2008, 01:25:54 am

i sort the albums chronological (Newest first), or by number plays.

Title: Re: How do you sort your albums?
Post by: tcman41 on June 02, 2008, 07:53:43 am

I have panes on the top and album thumbnails on the bottom.

I sort them per latest date imported, the newest are always at the top.

TC

Title: Re: How do you sort your albums?
Post by: Matchbox on June 02, 2008, 10:32:52 am

If you decide to use Girder, then you can use any (old) remote you want.  I use an IRMan to receive the IR into the computer, and then let Girder catch and act on the received IR calling the MC12.exe program with the appropriate options to do my bidding.

You'd need to use some old remote that does not currently control anything in your home.

Title: Re: How do you sort your albums?
Post by: hit_ny on June 02, 2008, 11:59:17 am

[genre]  [album artist (auto)]      [year] - [Album]

..and thats not a calculated field at the end but a cached one that stores the content of the calculated version. A combo of chronological+alphabetical.

Very fast this way :)