Sorting Preferences in 1.8

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I just posted about this in another thread.

Toggling sort order for all sort menu options

Core Machine (Operating system/System info/Roon build number) Roon 1.8 (build 764) stable Description Of Issue In the sort menu on any given screen, the sort order can be toggled (asc / desc) by clicking that menu option again. That is, for some options, but not all. Further, the same option might be able to be toggled on one screen but not on another. e.g. On the My Artists page, sort order can be toggled on Name and Most Played but not on Album Count On the My Albums page, sort order can…

Toggling the sort order does not work on all sort by menu items, and some work and some don’t on some platforms and not on others, it seems.

EDIT:

This was user error (caused by bad UX, IMO). See here:

Toggling sort order for all sort menu options

I just figured this out. You have to click on the actual arrow in the menu. Clicking on the text next to the arrow doesn’t toggle it, it just closes the menu. But here’s what’s most confusing… If I got to My Albums and change the sort to by Artist descending (Z → A). Then I click on the sort menu again and click on Sort by Artist again (the text not the arrow) it DOES toggle it back to ASC (A → Z). Which I guess is the default set in sort Settings. So freakin’ confusing. For my money, the sort…