Tracks From Album Appear Out Of Order

[foglabs]

Attached screenshot shows tracks 15 and 16 (the bonus tracks) showing up at the beginning of this album, when these two tracks should be at the end of the album. Track metadata has the correct sequential track number values for these tracks. Clicking 'album' label to reverse order does not change the displayed track order. This is on macOS Ventura 13.4.1.

Thanks!

[martpie]

Hi @foglabs! I am aware of some weird sorting issues that can sometimes happen indeed. Can you share those files somewhere so I can repro the issue and investigate what goes wrong exactly?

[foglabs]

sure I can google drive them to you on your gmail if that works! thanks for getting back to me

[martpie]

Sounds perfect!

[martpie]

I finally could have a look. Basically, the two bonus tracks have been released in 2021, and the rest of the album in 2022, and when we sort by artist, we sort like the following:

artist [asc or desc] -> [year asc] -> [album asc] -> ...

The reason is that imho albums should be sorted from their oldest release date to the newest. Removing this constraint sort the tracks in the "right" (whatever that means) order, but we lose the sorting by year.

[martpie]

Interestingly enough, Music (ex-iTunes) sort by Alphabetical order (minus "The"). In a way, that makes sense, as people are more susceptible to know the name of their album than their year of release 🤔

[foglabs]

hmm, I would want the tracks within albums to be sorted by track number. in any case, thanks for responding to my issue!

[martpie]

I think this is a change that makes sense :)