Graves wrote: ↑Mon Sep 09, 2019 7:29 pm
Brings up another thought as well: Some of MMVs features aren't quite obvious to find or even be existant!
I agree 100% ... I wish more testers were so frank. It needs to be said.
I am not saying that it is bad ... or that it won't fly ... I think MM5 is really good, but it does need a well thought out and well executed set of intro animation panels for MM5 ... ie. one for filtering and sorting ... and another for web features .. and another for syncing ... and another MMA integration ... and another for auto-tagging ... and another for playlists ... etc
The problem is that seems to me that the MM people genuinely can't see this ... they designed it ... and they learnt it incrementally ... and they don't think that there is a problem.
Other smallish companies, who have great but complex s/w tools, address this issue. Example, the Wing IDE for Python:
- plus a library of pithy task based Wing Guides available from the product's tool bar
That is where the bar should be set IMO
Graves wrote: ↑Mon Sep 09, 2019 7:29 pm
Double clicking a genre does the trick, I see...
[snip]
Guess that's because something happens on clicking once already.
And you can't sort stuff there, within this great first overview showing everything
What are you double clicking to get there?
I get there, but it takes more than a double click?
Where did you double click?
BTW which part of that screen was new to you?
This bit? ... or something else
The bit indicated above is available from lots of places in the MM5 UI, and is an important part of the UI
ie. it is available from almost anywhere, via
these two routes and Ctrl+F
Your observation that there is no way to sort results from a filter, is interesting. ... That would a good addition ... example, for use in grid view mode, where there are no other available options.
Your initial question was asking about sorting grids of albums .... MM5 is deficient here.
AFAIK you can sort album grids here, but
only here
You cannot configure grid sort in other places where it would be useful, and expected. Examples:
- like here: in the in-line album panel in the Music>Composer node; the UI|skin does not make it very clear, but I have chosen the composer Delius ... his albums are sorted by date released (?), and that is fixed (?)
- or here at the Home screen ... I have selected the Artist Portishead ... again the albums cannot be sorted in the inline panel which opens up
- or here ... where you were, in Music>Genre ... the album sort sequence looks random, but is probably Date Released also
I think that their argument, is that these cannot be sorted because they are inline panels, and not grids ... but that is a piece on Monty Python reasoning isn't it
... the thing is that it is very desirable that their sort sequence be configurable IMO .. almost a basic requirement.
Your observation leads to the thought that the Filter facility could be useful here, and elsewhere ... ie. a "filter" that has no selection criteria, but which does have a sort criteria
But the most intuitive path would be to have a Sort option, for inline panels, in the View menu , and also in the Manage Views facility ... just like there is for the main grid in Music>Albums node