Sorting an artists albums by year?

[andefeldt]

Hi,

iTunes has this feature and I hope that I can do the same in MM.

I have MM set up so I have a list of all my album artists. These are listed alphabetically. Just like I want it.

But, all the albums are also listed alphabetically. I would much rather have them listed by year instead. Can this be done in MM?

What I have now (the date in () are listed in the "year" tag):

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Bad Religion
      - Recipe For Hate

The Beatles
      - A Hard Day's Night (1964-07-10)
      - Abbey Road (1969-09-26)
      - Beatles For Sale (1964-12-04)

What I want instead:

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Bad Religion
      - Recipe For Hate

The Beatles
      - A Hard Day's Night (1964-07-10)
      - Beatles For Sale (1964-12-04)
      - Abbey Road (1969-09-26)

Please tell me that this is possible in MM (and how)!

[Lowlander]

Sort on Album Artist, hold the Ctrl key and sort on Date, release the Ctrl key.

[andefeldt]

Thank you so much!

It's perfect now!

[rrfpacker]

Lowlander or andefeldt,

Could you explain this process a bit more? I, too, am interested in sorting albums by year in the Artist or Album Artist node. Is that what you two are talking about?

If so, I need more guidance on what you mean by Sort on Album Artist...do you mean click on the library node? Then do you hold Control and click on Year node or Date column?

Or am I just missing it?

[Lowlander]

Yes you first click on the Album Artist column header to sort on Album Artist. Then you hold down the Ctrl key and click on the Date column to apply secondary sorting on Date (So sort is Album Artist then Date).

The Ctrl key is used to apply sorting on more than 1 column.

[MusicBringer]

I think what we are all asking for is to be able to sort Albums in Date Order in the Node tree on the left (not the Columns in the main window - that sort just like a table in a spreadsheet when clicking the heading)

Having Albums listed in Alpha order in the nodes is not only unnatural but lazy coding.
Other than prefixing the album Name with the date - which looks ugly - I have found no workaround when using Tree Nodes. Yeah I know it can be done in Magic Nodes - which makes a nonsense of the fact you cannot sort in the Tree. That's MM for you

[nohitter151]

I think what we are all asking for is to be able to sort Albums in Date Order in the Node tree on the left (not the Columns in the main window - that sort just like a table in a spreadsheet when clicking the heading)

Having Albums listed in Alpha order in the nodes is not only unnatural but lazy coding.
Other than prefixing the album Name with the date - which looks ugly - I have found no workaround when using Tree Nodes. Yeah I know it can be done in Magic Nodes - which makes a nonsense of the fact you cannot sort in the Tree. That's MM for you

So what's wrong with MagicNodes? Hide MM's nodes and show the MagicNode instead. You can even make it sub to Library so it will be seamless.

But why have a solution that suits everyone when we could just force everyone to do it your way, right?

[rrfpacker]

Lowlander, thank you. I was pretty sure that's how it was.

And, Yes, I would much rather have the date sort in the Artist node of the library. But as nohitter said, it can be done with MN, I just have to figure out how to do it.

[nohitter151]

Lowlander, thank you. I was pretty sure that's how it was.

And, Yes, I would much rather have the date sort in the Artist node of the library. But as nohitter said, it can be done with MN, I just have to figure out how to do it.

There's already a preset for it when you install.

[rrfpacker]

nohitter,

I knew you would say that, but the only MN I have been able to find isn't what I want; it has extra steps to get where I want. That's why I have to figure something out or live with what is available. I'm not going to bash MM, I like it, and I like how powerful the scripts have made it. I still have much to learn in order to modify it for me.

[nohitter151]

nohitter,

I knew you would say that, but the only MN I have been able to find isn't what I want; it has extra steps to get where I want. That's why I have to figure something out or live with what is available. I'm not going to bash MM, I like it, and I like how powerful the scripts have made it. I still have much to learn in order to modify it for me.

Ok, I'm not sure which node you are trying or how it isn't what you want, but let's just start over.

Does this meet your needs:

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Album Artist|Icon:Top level|Child of:Library|Position:First child\<Album Artist>\<Album|Sort by:Max(Year)>

[rrfpacker]

A big YES. Thank you so much. If that's in MN, I've missed it. Thank you.

[nohitter151]

A big YES. Thank you so much. If that's in MN, I've missed it. Thank you.

Happy to help.