Sorting classical albums different than non classical as feature request

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Is there a way to do the following :

  • Sort all non classical albums on lastname of albumartist (done that, works fine)
  • And at the same time, "if album = classical then sort that album on lastname of composer. (And thus NOT on albumartist and/or conductor)

For example : I’ve like to sort all my non classical albums on the lastname of the albumartist and want my classical albums to be found by T from Tchaikovsky and not by B of Leonard Bernstein.

Best regards and thanks in advance,
Léon

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As far as I know you get one size fits all, an album is an album

there is no way to differentiate genre as you want,

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I would set up two bookmarks: one viewing non-classical and one viewing classical, with a different sort for each. Then just choose the bookmark you want with a couple of clicks.

Seems less confusing to me.

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i’ve hacked together a solution using my own metadata format, tagging Album Title as follows:

-Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 - Tennstedt
-Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 - Karajan
-Verdi: Otello - Levine
-Verdi: Otello - Chung

so that when i sort by Album Title, i get a list albums by composer. unfortunately Roon does not remember sort order, and insists on defaulting to Artist sort each time i go back to Classical, which is needlessly tedious.

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?
It does for me (android)

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does not. here’s a screen recording:

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OK, I can reproduce that.

Now, having gone away from that genres>albums>screen, to home, and then to the albums browser, I see the setting (including focus if set) that was used last time I went straight to the albums browser. It seems that the album view seen via genres is a temporary setup.

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Which one of the possibly many composers? Should albums be listed for any composer (duplicate entries)?

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I am pretty much doing it the same way.

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Was my initial reaction, too. But what is the current rule for sorting by artist if there are multiple primary artists? Does it take the first match?

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Dunno (only one Album with more than 1 Primary Artist) most are Various Artists. If I look at Compositions, where one can easily sort by Composer, I would say first listed is taken first and only. If it should work for albums it would also need a Various Composers for classical samplers (composers most-likely not credited on album level).

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As far as I can tell, yes.

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Yes, own tagging works always but the question was without extra tagging. I do the same with “various artists” when i want sorted the compilations by stereoplay and hifivisionen together. So albumartist is “various artists - stereoplay” and “various artists - hifivisionen” for example.

Best regards,
Léon

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You could sort on track level, for example i want to sort all Mozart tracks by M, regardless from which album or composer. On the other hand i want to sort my non classical tracks by albumartist. In case of a compilation that is V from Various artists.

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yes you could, but then you would be looking at the Track browser, not the Album browser. On track level, sorting by composer is already possible. I thought you wanted to sort the albums in album view.