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owntone / owntone-server

Linux/FreeBSD DAAP (iTunes) and MPD audio server with support for AirPlay 1 and 2 speakers (multiroom), Apple Remote (and compatibles), Chromecast, Spotify and internet radio.
https://owntone.github.io/owntone-server
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feature-request: Support option for "Album by Artist" sort order #358

Closed chucksense closed 7 years ago

chucksense commented 7 years ago

iTunes has the ability to sort albums "by artist" rather than purely alphabetically. When enabled, if using Remote.app when you go to the "Albums" view, it will really order by artists, but have a listing for each album.

Presently, it seems forked-daapd only sorts by album title itself. It would be nice if the above behavior could be mimicked.

chucksense commented 7 years ago

Example of setup from iTunes: screen shot 2017-03-03

ejurgensen commented 7 years ago

There is probably something I am missing here, but in my Remote the listing order is not affected by the order in iTunes? When I select the Album view in Remote I get the albums ordered by title, even when I setup iTunes like you showed.

chucksense commented 7 years ago

Here are the same libraries, one as served from iTunes, the other as served from forked-daapd.

iTunes: img_4037

forked-daapd: img_4038

You can see the forked-daapd library is sorting albums by album title. The iTunes library is sorting by artist like the desktop iTunes.

I'm not sure why yours isn't doing this behavior? There is also this dialog in iTunes that is reached at View->Show View Options (or ⌘-J): view options-20170304113258

Perhaps that does it?

And finally, there is also a setting in the Remote app that may be triggering this: Sort by Artist.

img_4039

ejurgensen commented 7 years ago

Yes, the setting in Remote does the trick. I have fixed it now so that albums get sorted by artist when Remote requests it.