Alpha Group for Albums sorted by Artist?

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(06-01-2016 15:06)simoncn Wrote:  

(06-01-2016 14:34)Briain Wrote:  Are you thinking that navigating into the albums container, then after opening the 'Z' sub-container you would find the album 'Afterburner' (by ZZ Top), for example, or am I totally misunderstanding the request (I'm assuming you aren't suggesting that, but I'm just using that to highlight my confusion over what is being proposed)?

Yes, this is what is being proposed if you have set Album.sortTags={Artist, Album}.

I suspect you are not the only person who would find this surprising.

Haha, well I never do anything normal and it is perhaps peculiar to others and not something most people would use. Let me explain my reasoning (if that is what it is).

My particulars are that I use Kazoo as a control point, which (for # albums) displays the album title and album artist under the album art. I find having all albums on the one browse level sorted like that is the nicest way to browse. No need to keep going back up and down through artists for example. In fact if I am really looking for something in particular for a particular reason I tend to use Search. It's just that normally I browse and pick what I fancy.

I know roughly where an album is alphabetically by artist so that's not the problem - usually. However, I have just purchased a Linx tablet. Not such a big screen, and not so easy to scroll, and not so fast, as the laptop which I use. So for that device, it would be nice to have this feature I requested to break down my album collection a little. Going as far as per artist is too far - it may seem odd to browse all albums by artists beginning with A or whatever, but I'm not talking a search here - it's browsing.

Hope this clears it up, and if it's not something you'd use then don't