Hey, thanks for the great app! I’m glad I found it, and happy to support something that clearly has a lot of care and effort that’s gone into it.
One little thing I would love is the ability to sort the Library’s Albums view by “Sort display artist” rather than just “Display artist”. To be clear, I’d love to be able to ignore articles, so that for example, Arcade Fire and The Arcade Fire appear together in A.
Apologies if this is already listed as a request, I didn’t find anything that seemed to match.
Problem solved:
Solves the problem of albums by artists starting with “The” all grouped together in T, for example.
Brought benefits:
Sort titles are already a thing users benefit from, it’d just add consistency in being able to use them against artists in album view, not just for the album title.
Thanks for the reply! Album artist is supposed to be a single consistent value for an album though, so I’d be fine for it to “break”/order weirdly in the edge cases where an album has incorrect metadata. If it works in all other cases, for me it’d still be worth it
Well I have thousands albums with multiple album artists as many users, since unlike your believing it’s absolutely normal and supported.
Since order of artists is undefined, sorr by sort title does not work predictably and so won’t be added as only predictable things have their place in Symfonium.
No worries, I don’t have any problem with that situation existing, it just isn’t the case in my library I’m not trying to force it on others, where it doesn’t work, that would be silly. I was just putting in a request to add it as an additional sort option because it would be a big benefit to me. I wouldn’t even mind if you only used the “first” album artist in whatever order you wanted to define first, as it’d work fine for albums with only one album artist specified. If that doesn’t work for others, they don’t have to use it, right?
In a normal world yes, in our real world, people would use it then complain it does not work the way they want and trigger tons of support and bad ratings.
You have no idea the number of mails / issues about people enabling settings then complaining that the app does exactly what the setting say it will do.
I can’t afford more support so i do not add things that does not work 100% as expected.
