In Settings => Interface settings => Artist page, I have selected “Sort: Year (Ascending)”
Therefore, that’s how it looks like: https://i.imgur.com/vQUrAsc.jpeg (as expected)
However, if I press “Play”, “Play Next” or “Queue”, songs will be ordered in a different order (can’t figure out how it’s chosen): https://i.imgur.com/rw4p4Am.jpeg (not expected)
Just in case, I uploaded a log (Tomatot 2)
Being able to play a discography chronologically (even with some songs inside an album have a different date, e.g. in a compilation, it won’t be a problem) easily.
Sorry, got it confused in between “artist album” and the “Album Artist” tag… How is the order chosen in the view I’m choosing though? Thanks for the workaround but I still find the current implementation confusing.
Again this is not a workaround…
You want to play albums in a specific order you go to the album view, you want to play songs in a specific order you go the song view.
Playing an artist have different meanings for different people so whatever the ordering applied will not please some. And again an album sort is not a song sort, the fact that you do not care about compilation and dates does not makes this the reality for the others.
If playing from the artist view is basically random and the order can’t be guessed/anticipated, what’s the purpose of this button? Why not make it the same behavior as the albums view? Especially since you can also sort albums in the artist page.
Playing an artist have different meanings for different people so whatever the ordering applied will not please some.
Well, that’s why they can choose how to order albums in the settings. At least it will please some people. At the moment, I don’t see who it’s supposed to please?
The order is not random.
Why not the behavior of the song view because well it plays songs since it also plays songs from compilations where the artist is the song artist but not the album artist ? You know again you are not the center of the universe.
You are currently the only one complaining so maybe it please the others who asked for it?
Seriously now stop trying to convince me you are the only one that matters and your need is the only need, it’s not sorry to disappoint …
How is it decided then? That’s what I’m asking since the beginning - I can’t figure it out.
I am not trying to make app tailored for me specifically. While of course I would benefit from the change, I thought it would benefit everyone else too. Thanks anyway.
Not really what you ask is how to change it to your liking
Again it plays ALL SONGS from the artist including some where the artist IS NOT THE ALBUM ARTIST. So no applying an album order here does not make any sense for the general use case that is not yours.
But it still tries to group by containing albums and have the songs in grouped albums in the track order.
Sorry for the necro, I’m quite confused by this as well.
Took me a bit to find what was meant here, but to get it to queue in a configurable order you can:
Open the artist
Click on the albums header
And then you get the “Albums from “ screen where you can configure sort
Play, play next, add to queue etc work like I would personally expect here
But what I don’t understand is what the order used when you click play next on the artists page itself is based on
In my case it plays from newest to oldest. It does keep in mind trackorder within albums. That’s the grouping mentioned I assume.
Is new to old just a hardcoded default?
Is it based on another list? It doesn’t seem to be the order of the track list for example.
Yes I agree it should be based on the set order of the artist tracks list. Mine doesn’t even seem to go newest to oldest. I can’t figure out the order queued.
Edit: the order for me when pressing the play next button on the artist page seems to be in order of album name a-z (alphabetically). My artist tracks list is sorted from oldest to newest. My artist albums are sorted the same way.
