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Title: I'm struggling to sort the Album View, in theatre mode correctly!
Post by: cgbissett on January 13, 2011, 08:24:17 pm

In Standard view all my albums (Album View)  are grouped as follows, artist A-Z, and then year oldest to newest.  I'm struggling to get this grouping in albums, theatre view, currently its is artist A-Z, and then album name A-Z within artist. I have fiddled with the settings, but can't seem to get it, any help would be appreciated.

Cheers Craig

Title: Re: I'm struggling to sort the Album View, in theatre mode correctly!
Post by: rick.ca on January 13, 2011, 11:26:18 pm

The first screen shot shows the setting you want. The second is an alternative approach. I use this so the year of release is shown with the album name, as shown in the third shot.

Title: Re: I'm struggling to sort the Album View, in theatre mode correctly!
Post by: cgbissett on January 14, 2011, 11:29:31 am

Thanks Rick, the screenshots were helpful.

Cheers Craig

Title: Re: I'm struggling to sort the Album View, in theatre mode correctly!
Post by: Russ Reed on January 14, 2011, 11:39:44 am

Good question. Great answer and demo! You guy's are awesome.

Title: Re: I'm struggling to sort the Album View, in theatre mode correctly!
Post by: marko on February 04, 2011, 11:25:01 am

rick, any idea why this doesn't work for search lists?

The "Sort" option is disabled in the search list setup, as expected really...

Each search list entry has its own sort parameters specified within, but when viewed in theater view, all of the lists are sorted by album artist auto.

Is this a bug, by design, or user error?

-marko.

Title: Re: I'm struggling to sort the Album View, in theatre mode correctly!
Post by: rick.ca on February 04, 2011, 01:57:36 pm

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rick, any idea why this doesn't work for search lists?

I don't see the same thing. Is there a "modification" setting in the Rules for file display for the view itself? I haven't experimented, but I imagine that would override any similar setting on a category item. :-\

Title: Re: I'm struggling to sort the Album View, in theatre mode correctly!
Post by: marko on February 06, 2011, 05:06:04 am

I've included a sorting rule in the "Rules for file display" and then, in Theater View, the "All" entry correctly uses this sort order.

The individual search list items each have their own sorting instructions, and in standard view, these sorting instructions are applied per search list item selected. However, in theater view, they are ignored. I've added this to my bug list.

-marko.