As this discussion just came up in the "New version 1.2.50/1.2.80 for DMP-A6/DMP-A8 release" Thread. Votes in this poll are displayed public. Poll ends on 2024-03-04.
Chronological does not make sense for classical recordings. For instance, I have over 70 recordings of works by Giuseppe Verdi. Sorting them by date is meaningless. All versions of Aida need to be sorted together, followed by all versions of Attila, then all versions of Don Carlo... The same would be true of symphonic works by Mahler: all versions of Symphony No. 1, should sort before Symphony No. 2... till you get to the unfinished Symphony No. 10. As has been asked elsewhere, which date would be used for sorting? Date of composition, date of performance (relevant for live recordings of Opera or concerts) or date of release of the album/CD/download. There are just too many variables.
You could decide yourself what date is most relevant for you and then tag the album accordingly. For me it is the original release date of the album. For you it might be the birthdate of the composer.....or his sister.....or her dog.
While we're making sorting suggestions, removing 'the' from the artist sort would be nice. i.e., The Who should be sorted under 'W'
Fully with you! I just added a corresponding post to the DMP-A6 Feature Request Thread. I hope the Zidoo Developers consider this.
.....And the Winner is: 1st Place (54%): The best solution would of course be to have the flexibility to select between chronological and alphabetical sorting of Albums under Artist. 2nd Place (32%): Albums under Artists in CHRONOLOGICAL Order while The Artists are sorted ALPHABETICALLY. For me the most logical way of displaying music collections because it shows the history and developement of a band/artist. 3rd and last place (14%): The current Alphabetic way of sorting albums is obviously the least desired option of all. I hope the Developers will consider the result of this poll for the coming improvements and updates of the Eversolo Software.
...sounds useless to me. I would never ever sort my albums by "date added". But that is just my personal preference.
Eversolo needs to simply honor the sort tag. Then you can sort things however you want. It fixes a number of issues I have with this device... it would mean I could remove prefixes like A and The and I could sort artists correctly... by their last name. I simply can't understand why they're not honoring this tag, it's mind numbing.
Yes, that’s pretty standard. iTunes automatically puts “who” as the artist sort tag, and defaults to artist sort tag for album artists. I prefer year-album as my file structure under album artist. I use Jriver as my metadata and storage manager. What tags does the DMP-A6 read, and can it handle custom tags ?
