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Columns UI filter suggestions

Hi,

1. Is it possible to make Album filters sortable by date?

2. When clicking on an entry in a filter list, is it possible to "jump to" that result within the current view, without creating its own isolated playlist?

e.g. Your library has music from Artists A-Z.  Clicking on the "Artist G" filter entry will scroll to that artist; but then you can still scroll up/down to other artists.  In the Albums filter, if you then click on "Album H", the same thing occurs.

3. Can you hide the filter title (Genre/Artist/Album) and scrollbar?

Columns UI filter suggestions

Reply #1 –
I'm not a huge expert as far as filtering goes, but I sort my albums by date by modifying the album field to show the date before the album title, and this automatically sorts it. For a quick solution, I first used:

Code: [Select]
[$pad(%date%,15,' ')]%album%

As I have some albums that also use the month for proper date sorting (2012-03 is the format that I use, for example), I use:

Code: [Select]
[$iflonger(%date%,4,$pad(%date%,12,' '),$pad(%date%,15,' '))]%album%

I only tend to use this for affected artists (such as The Beatles) where they had multiple albums out in the same year, as it messes up proper sorting for the entire library as anything with a hyphen gets listed at the end of that particular year's albums.

As for points 2 and 3, I don't think that's possible in Columns UI and you might need to use other components, but others may know more than me.
 

Columns UI filter suggestions

Reply #2 –
Quote from: C3POwen on
I'm not a huge expert as far as filtering goes, but I sort my albums by date by modifying the album field to show the date before the album title, and this automatically sorts it. For a quick solution, I first used:

Code: [Select]
[$pad(%date%,15,' ')]%album%

As I have some albums that also use the month for proper date sorting (2012-03 is the format that I use, for example), I use:

Code: [Select]
[$iflonger(%date%,4,$pad(%date%,12,' '),$pad(%date%,15,' '))]%album%

I only tend to use this for affected artists (such as The Beatles) where they had multiple albums out in the same year, as it messes up proper sorting for the entire library as anything with a hyphen gets listed at the end of that particular year's albums.

As for points 2 and 3, I don't think that's possible in Columns UI and you might need to use other components, but others may know more than me.

Neat suggestion; unfortunately, I'm not sure it works for me, as my album list is rather skinny, and I don't particularly like the dates showing up (I often use full dates, e.g. 2012-03-10, as well).  Thanks anyway.

Yeah, as far as I'm aware these things aren't possible; I was wondering whether there was a workaround/component or if it might be implemented in the future.