Sorting of Artist's albums and music

[Vadrome]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

• Albums on Artist's screen are ordered seemingly random. It always takes longer to find what you want than necessary.
• The listing of all tracks on the Artist screen seems to be ordererd by the song's number in their respective album. It shows all songs with number 1, then number 2, etc..

Describe the solution you'd like

• Sort Music by release date, from newst to oldest. Both the albums and songs. (The list of all songs should be the same order as the albums, just in one place). It was like this at some point in the past.
• Optional but appreciated: Show album's release year below the album card

Describe alternatives you've considered Create a personalisation option to choose the ordering. (including what I mentioned above)

[Daksh777]

What do you mean by "Albums on Artist's screen are ordered seemingly random"? They are sorted alphabetically

[tnyeanderson]

@Daksh777 it seems random because one expects to see the albums in order of release, not alphabetically. I agree this needs to be changed, or at least have sorting by release date on the artist page added as an option.

[Daksh777]

@tnyeanderson Ah, okay. I understand. I'm very used to seeing my albums alphabetically and so I never really thought about this.

[Vadrome]

Exactly @tnyeanderson Regarding the ordering of songs; it seems you fetch all songs from an artist, then sort them by their number. The simplest solution would probably be to add them to the song list when you fetch the album and not sort it at all afterwards. (provided that they are already sorted in the album)

Resulting in:

• All songs from the first album sorted 1 to n ascending
• All songs from the second album sorted 1 to n ascending
• etc.

Which would also make the ordering coherent.

[smcconne]

This is something I would really appreciate. "Artist then year" is a widespread standard because people like seeing an artist's discography as it was created, there's perspective you get from that ordering you can't match with a meaningless sort like whatever-the-first-letter-happens-to-be.

IMO a perfect music player would use artist-then-year but also separate "main" albums from "side", a per-album toggle so the main discog gets decluttered from unwieldy extras. Then, in a non-album mindset you could explore a whole section of tracks that aren't the main ones. But that's just me dreaming.