Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] sort by year

["Andrew Conkling" <andrew conkling gmail com>]

On 3/6/07, Jonathan Matthew <jonathan kaolin wh9 net> wrote:
> We could probably solve this by changing the album browser from this:
>
>   [album]
>   all 3 albums (37)
>   aaaa (14)
>   bbbb (11)
>   cccc (12)
>
> to this:
>
>   [album  v]         [year]    [count]
>   all 3 albums                     37
>   aaaa                2011         14
>   bbbb                1963         11
>   cccc                1998         12
>
> which would provide sorting on name, year, and song count:
>
>   [album]         [year  v]   [count]
>   all 3 albums                     37
>   bbbb                1963         11
>   cccc                1998         12
>   aaaa                2011         14

Heck, adding the length of the album would also be good too. Suddenly,
the browser is crowded. ;)

> The main problem left is that albums don't actually exist in rhythmbox,
> so there's no good way to associate years with them.  This is something
> that we intend to fix, although no one has done any work on it as far as
> I know.

Well, right now all an "album" is is a bunch of tracks with the same
artist and album name, right? So why not just tack on the year there
too? I don't imagine there are too many albums with tracks with
different years, and it wouldn't seem bad to just show the most recent
year in such a case.

Or is there another problem?