Feature request: Sorting options

[sc113]

It would be more helpful to sort releases by artist's name for every day instead of release title

[jakubito]

@sc113 Are you proposing to keep the alphabetical order of artists within a release and sort by the first one in the list? Trying to figure out how to handle releases with multiple artists 🤔 But I agree, it would be more useful than what we have now

[jakubito]

I pushed this change as part of v1.7.10 release, let me know what you think @sc113

[sc113]

Yeah, it looks much better, thank you!

But there are few problems regarding prioritizing main artist or multiple artists:

1) the album's main artist vs collaborations\features.

• https://open.spotify.com/album/755yBlrk0Sz8tIgMMTgyr1 I follow The Avalanches and most artists from the collaborations on the album. By the logic, it should be filled under the main artist at first - The Avanlances, but instead it's listed under every credited artist sorted alphabetically - "Blood Orange, Jamie xx, Karen O, Kurt Vile, MGMT, Neneh Cherry, The Avalanches". So this album appearing under B instead of T.
• https://open.spotify.com/album/4Cejj7X43FU8YD9gUROeam the main artist is slowthai, but it appearing in the list as "James Blake, Mount Kimbie, slowthai"
• https://open.spotify.com/album/51my18W1EFlHAMZf10r5vn album by WhoMadeWho, but it filled as "Adana Twins, Rebolledo, Robag Wruhme, WhoMadeWho", appearing under A

2) order of album's main artists, when you follow few of them.

• https://open.spotify.com/album/1K91rH2qhN5jscP5pwtx3V the album is by Nocturnal Sunshine at first as listed on spotify. Maya Jane Coles is an alternative name of the artist, set to connect both profiles. it should appear under N at first, but instead, it filled under M as "Maya Jane Coles, Nocturnal Sunshine"

[sc113]

Perhaps, it might be useful if albums were on the list with the main artist as well.

Currently, the list format is:

Release title

Followed artists, #Additional artists & album's artist

But it may be more helpful to use

Album's artist

Release title (or #Album's artists - #Release title)

Followed artists, #Additional artist

And then the whole list sorted by "Album's artist"

It would also help to determine more clearly if the followed artist only participates in someone else's release or if it's their own release.

[jakubito]

Hi @sc113, please check out the newest version 1.7.11

Followed artists are now ordered by album group they belong to, in this order: ALBUM -> SINGLE -> COMPILATION -> APPEARS_ON

I hope you will find it better than it was before. I know it doesn't solve the second problem you described, but I decided to keep the followed artists being displayed first (the main problem is insufficient data from the API)

[sc113]

Yeah, it really became better, and the second case is much less common and not as confusing as the first one, so it is fine. Thank you!