Alternate sort orders and search criteria<br><br>I'd really appreciate so...

Julian Bond - 2015-03-05 08:09:56+0000 - Updated: 2015-03-05 08:12:34+0000

Alternate sort orders and search criteria

I'd really appreciate some alternate sort orders, especially in the My Library, albums view. And especially sorting in reverse date order of release date.

Are there any tricks for searching on specific metadata fields? Like say year:2014

I also don't seem to be able to search on just my library.

Jim Newton - 2015-03-06 00:41:09+0000 - Updated: 2015-03-06 00:42:51+0000

While not practical with a huge library, you can edit album information and update the year for each album. I've found that the sort order goes by the year field in the album, from newest to oldest. You can manipulate this to create your own personal sort order.

Edit: Sorry, I misread you comment. My tips were for Artist view, not Album view.

Julian Bond - 2015-03-06 07:49:28+0000

I was wondering where you were seeing this sort order. But then went into a single artist and realized the albums for that artist were in reverse release date order. Yes, that's good, but even there I can't change the sort order to alphabetical. And yes, I really want this on the global album view, not inside individual artists.

A long time ago, I got my library properly tagged. I've been obsessive about correcting and updating tags on all new music before it gets put into the main file store ever since. So pretty much all my music has the Year tag filled in.

Jim Newton - 2015-03-06 16:32:40+0000

Totally agree that sorting and even filtering is a much needed feature, at least in the browser version. I don't use the Android or iOS version too often, though I do have devices with the app on it.

In the Artist view, if you remove the dates, they will sort alphabetically, but we should not have to manipulate this information for such a basic feature.