Sorting issues tracked at http://www.ventismedia.com/mantis/view.php?id=8260

-Rusty

nope, it does not have to do something with the prefixes...
but it is tracked, so maybe it will be solved in the future...

[i]edit: weird... just noticed that the detailed view works prefectly. so i guess there is something wrong with the "art with details" view[/i]

never noticed it before: but why isn't it possible to chose columns in the "art view"?

Custom sorting issues could be related to: http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=59961

Have you sorted by Summary first then Custom Field second?

Edit: Also does it work fine if in "Show Details" view?

i always though a resolution of 640x480 is enough...back in the old days it was :lol:

but here is the little "photo-story" and see what's happening:
the new selection (everything is fine):
[url=http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/51/blub1v.jpg/][img]http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/2865/blub1v.jpg[/img][/url]


selecting an artist (messed up already):
[url=http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/577/blubzwischen.jpg/][img]http://img577.imageshack.us/img577/3426/blubzwischen.jpg[/img][/url]


back to the full artist list (back to the old sorting):
[url=http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/98/blub2.jpg/][img]http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/3311/blub2.jpg[/img][/url]

[quote="heartofhate"]edit: unfortunately this fix does not work... at first it worked but if a different artist ist selected in the tree everything is messed up again. but thank you for the hint pman[/quote]

Could you post a screenshot for when it works with the settings i gave you and then a screenshot for when it gets messed up (ie for individual artists). Also include in the screenshot the only highlighted columns you use.

Just a note, when you upload to imageshack, select the option "Do Not Resize" and then upload a thumbnail. Thanks

thanks pman for the fix. i'll try this tomorrow.

my sorting works like this:
custom field (i named it albumtype so i can differ between albums, live albums, singles and so on.) + artist + date

edit: unfortunately this fix does not work... at first it worked but if a different artist ist selected in the tree everything is messed up again. but thank you for the hint pman

[quote="heartofhate"]problem in screenshot one: the sorting should display ac/dc, accep, ... at first but i actually starts displaying alestorm (another weird thing: only one of three albums) and then skips again some artists...
problem in screenshot two: it does not care for the release dates (even it is selected)...

hopefully there will be a properly solution soon[/quote]

Yeh I can see what's going on with both pics. 1st one is missing out loads of artists under A and so on, and with 2nd pic dates are not ordered correctly when it comes to the same artist. I think it's simple to sort out, but it would be helpful to know the below:

- What's the column with "Album" listed for all your songs?
- Also what's your ordering, is it Artist + column="Album" + Date or something else?

[u]Hopefully a fix:[/u]

1. First, if you got to Tools->Options->Player->Playback Rules.
2. Under "Art View" have 1st line=[b]<Album Artist>[/b] and 2nd line=[b]<Date>, <Album>[/b].
2. Go to View->and then in Art+Details view, and order by "[b]Summary[/b]" only. That should hopefully fix it for you heartofhate.

Just to note, if you havent filled in "Album Artist" in the above, then replace it with "Artist".

problem in screenshot one: the sorting should display ac/dc, accep, ... at first but i actually starts displaying alestorm (another weird thing: only one of three albums) and then skips again some artists...
problem in screenshot two: it does not care for the release dates (even it is selected)...

hopefully there will be a properly solution soon

I must be missing something, but I don't see an issue in either screenshot. But then again I also can't get a good look - they're so small.

I have the same problem - I think that MediaMonkey doesn't like AC/DC :o

But as you can see in http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=59636, it's like this problem can't be solved properly. I still have the same annoying sorting problem in Artview with details.

yesteday i installed MM4 [1418] and there i have got weird sorting results.
when only one coloumns is selected everything works fine but when i select more then it becomes a bit messy. usually i have three coloumns selected (year, artist and a costum one).
here a screen (the albumtype, year and artist is selected...so the artist should be by alphabetical order with an ascending release date of the albums):

when you look at the tree then you should notice that acdc should be visible in the main window but it is not :roll:

[url=http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/42/jiab.jpg/][img]http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/4176/jiab.jpg[/img][/url]


and this happens when an artist has more albums...
[url=http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/197/16175428.jpg/][img]http://img197.imageshack.us/img197/5018/16175428.jpg[/img][/url]