Enhance album sorting for "Various Artists" compilation albums

[s73nm (Sven M.)]

Via settings, I can determine how Roon sorts “Various Artists” albums in the album view. I can either have them sorted by the album name, or grouped under a “Various Artists”, which for me, when sorting albums by artists lists them between “Vangelis” and “Vaya Con Dios”.

In my CD collection, al my “Various Artists” compilation albums are sorted at the end, of my “regular” artist CD’s. Furthermore, they are then grouped by “series”, a concept which I’ve not seen in Roon.

I’d like to do the same in Roon, which basically means that
I would like to indicate a “series” to which a “Various Artists” compilation album belongs
I would like an option to sort the “Various Artists” behind all “regular” artists (so after ZZ Top), and have them sorted by “series” and release year.

[Carl]

@s73nm

I would like to indicate a “series” to which a “Various Artists” compilation album belongs

Could you not use tags for this?

@s73nm

would like an option to sort the “Various Artists” behind all “regular” artists (so after ZZ Top)

I too would preferer this, it’s how I have my physical CD collection organised (albeit in storage boxes these days and not on display).

[s73nm (Sven M.)]

@Carl

Could you not use tags for this?

Thank you for the suggestion. Although a tag could help in identifying and filtering, I don’t believe it would help in sorting the various artists by series and then year.

[Michael_Loomis]

Old thread, but what I do to sort all “Various Artist” albums to the end (after zz top), is the following:

Select the album
Select the “3 dots”
Select Edit
Select Edit Album
Type “zzz Various Artists” into the Album Artist field.

(It’s only slightly annoying to see the triple zz on these albums.