Comment by 247
well if you want to have music ordered alphabetically there is the album section in stock media player that still does this, personally anyway i don't have any disorganized music...there are spotify or...
View ArticleComment by ossi1967
@247: Thx for your pointing me to this tagging software. It's just that I'm not gonna use it because I don't want to organize my music, I just want to listen to it without any effort. > i generally...
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@michfu: I didn't? I never opened an artist's album list to find the album I was looking for? That's amazing.
View ArticleComment by 247
i perfectly agree on what michfu is saying. I know some people may find an alphabetical order better but to me is better by year, and that's because i generally know what record is after and what...
View ArticleComment by michfu
@ossi1976 I C. You can talk a lot about a use case you didn't *ever* use yourself. ;)
View ArticleComment by ossi1967
@michfu: > this is just polemic bs. I'm so glad you're not discrediting other ppl's opinions. It's not polemic bs. It's a fact. If your albums are sorted by year, you need to know that the ones...
View ArticleComment by michfu
> The solution works well for people knowing the release date for each and every album in their collection. @ossi1967 oh, come on, this is just polemic bs. > I'm not discrediting any opinion of...
View ArticleComment by Kim
Maybe it's high time that we close this discussion, and forward a wish to Jolla for an option for a selectable sort order. For me the subject has been answered, even though I don't like the answer :)
View ArticleComment by ossi1967
@michfu: I'm sorry. Yes, I'm of course being picky, but that's a good thing. We don't discuss here because we want to find out what's good for you or good for me, what you want or what I would prefer....
View ArticleComment by michfu
@ossi1967 sorry, you are being picky about words just to sort out others opinions. Of course I'm not sitting there looking how beautifully the albums line up by date. What an odd assumption. :) Of...
View ArticleComment by ossi1967
@michfu: Actually no, nobody stated they **find** albums more easily that way. People said things like "logical" and "the natural way of looking at" albums. Albums aren't there to bee looked at, that's...
View ArticleComment by michfu
@ossi1967 to be honest: There are *three* users in this thread telling you, they find albums more easily when sorted by date. What makes this not an answer? So your collection is badly tagged. Period....
View ArticleComment by ossi1967
@michfu: To be honest, I had asked for a use case that would benefit from sorting albums by date. There was no answer so far. (The use case for sorting by name is that you can more easily find them in...
View ArticleComment by michfu
I think it's clear now, that there are several use cases. It doesn't help repeating the same again and again.
View ArticleComment by Kim
@247: I would (and do) order my albums alphabetically, as I have no idea when the album was released, and frankly don't care! I'm sorry, but for non music buffs, the release date is close to being the...
View ArticleComment by 247
definitely not a bug cause it was requested by me, sorry to disappoint someone but as a music lover i see no point in organizing music alphabetically, if you own for example a record collection will...
View ArticleComment by michfu
For me mediaplayer was always far away from perfect. E.g. lacking a decent playlist (or rather queue). IMO mediaplayer is a piece of software, which would greatly profit from being opensource.
View ArticleComment by ossi1967
@michfu: > I don't get, why albums are sorted by artist, when you browse all of them. You're right, that's another bad design decision. One would expect to see albums per artist in the artist view....
View ArticleComment by michfu
Yes, it should be configurable. There should be even more options: I don't get, why albums are sorted by artist, when you browse all of them.
View ArticleComment by Kim
OK, It may be a feature (I must admit I haden't seen the entry in the release note), but in my eyes it still is an error! For a music enthusiast the release year probably is important, but for the...
View ArticleComment by michfu
+1 for sorting albums by year. This is the natural way of looking at albums for me. (...And Justice For All is *not* the first album of Metallica!!!) Compilations are not supported very well in the...
View ArticleComment by ossi1967
@nthn: Ah - I see where you're coming from when you compare to pictures/videos. It's a different type of media, though. I mean, neither the pictures I take nor the videos I record have meaningful names...
View ArticleComment by nthn
@ossi1967: I have never seen a media player that, by default, doesn't sort albums by date. You don't sort your pictures or videos alphabetically either, do you? In a file browser, sure, alphabetic...
View ArticleComment by ossi1967
@nthn: > Sorting by date makes a lot of sense, and is definitely not a bug. Mhm. Which use case am I missing? Sorting by an invisible and unknown criterion seems strange to me. When I scroll to...
View ArticleComment by nthn
@Kim: in that case, your tags are most likely wrong. There are two 'date' tags, namely 'date' and 'originaldate'. It sounds like your 'date' tags should instead be 'originaldate'. To clarify: the...
View ArticleComment by nthn
Sorting by date makes a lot of sense, and is definitely not a bug. However, I think the issue here is that these podcasts are all on the same 'album', but because their year tags are all different, all...
View ArticleComment by Kim
Except it isn't albums, if a compilation contains titles with the year of the original publication in the year tag, you will get an album per year and, in worst case, per title! It would be fine if the...
View ArticleComment by ossi1967
QuasarMX has a horrible UI and (before some more recent SailfishOS updates) didn't even play the media on the phone. I tried it in a different context and uninstalled it right away. Sorting by year of...
View ArticleComment by bocephus
Sorting per year makes perfect sense. I certainly want all my albums from a specific artist sorted by year of release, not alphabetically. In any case, I have no envy to litigate the merits of either...
View ArticleComment by ossi1967
I was about to give a similar answer (that it's meant to be this way and even listed in the release notes), still this most idiotic behaviour **is a bug**. The year is usually unknown and invisible in...
View ArticleAnswer by bocephus for Media player subdivides album after year tag
That's a feature, not a bug. As the release notes for 2.1.4.14 say: **Order music albums by date released, instead of alphabetically.**...
View ArticleComment by Lars Maria
I have the same issue, both now in Sailfish X (from 2.1.4) and since long time ago in my laptop running openSUSE Tumbleweed. I guess it's some kind of underlying lib that doesn't know what to do with...
View ArticleComment by nthn
@Lars Maria: I don't know where you get your music from, but the date tag is one of the most basic tags there is for all music formats, and it should always already be filled in *before* you get the...
View ArticleMedia player subdivides album after year tag
After upgrading my Xperia to 2.1.4.14, media are subdivided after the year tag. Where I previously had one album with about 400 podcast titles, I now have about 400 albums ordered in descending order....
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