Is there a way of using Asset server by under the Artist section to have each album sorted by year of release rather than alphabetical?
If im exploring an artist im not familiar with i want to be able to listen to them in order of release. At the moment ive no idea what is a debut and which is a finale. Logitech Media Server used to do this by default, surely Asset can do it?
There is, but itās perhaps not the most elegant solution and will probably be quite a bit of work to set up. It requires you to use the Album Sort Tag and youāll need to put things like 1969 - Abbey Road.
I do this but Iād say I do about 95% of my browsing by Album Artist, and then I want the albums presented chronologically. Itās taken me quite a time to update all the necessary tags. I do it for all albums except Various Artists.
Just use the āAlbum by releaseā container under Artist, instead of āAlbumā. Or just have both.
Sorts in reverse chronological order (and I havenāt found a way to change this) but it is closer to your needs.
The alternative is to use the Year tag and put it into your browse tree. Annoyingly this sorts newest first and the display puts the year in front of the album title (or used to). It also used miss out albums where year was not populated.
i tried that and i lost the āartistā tab in asset to be replaced with āalbum by releaseā but all that did was list every album on my NAS by year order which i dont want.
I want to go into an artist tab and see their albums as i do now, just have them ordered by release date rather than alphabetical order
EDIT: found it, It was the second line down to change to album by release and now they are all listed in release order. So much better, thankyou.
I spent ages getting the containers just how I wanted them but it was time well spent.
Now if you ever work out how to get them to display oldest to newest, please post back here !
mine are displaying oldest first to newest?
There is a field with āinvā after it which i assume means inverted. You sure you havent got that one set?
Crikey Iāll have to check tomorrow. Cheers.
Ahh I see that container type was introduced with V7 - Iām still on V6. I went to 7 early on and had a bit of grief playing to the Atom so I went back and havenāt bothered checking since. Might have to do that now. Nice.
How certain are you that this info was accurate. Unless you have checked and amended the metadata yourself, my experience of these dates are that they are often wildly inaccurate or missing. I generally find it easier to go the the artists Wikipaedia page, which nearly always has an accurate discography.
Iāve used Assetās Dynamic Browsing to sort by date. Itās easy enough, but is it something I use?
It first relies on accurate metadata and that is something that needs managing, as has been mentioned in other posts, itās often not included or wrong. Then it gets more complicated with remaster, deluxe & other re-releases.
Bottom line is itās there but not used.
All my music is tagged correctly. I spent a long time a few years ago making sure
Anyone want to show copies of their Asset browse tree?
Asset UpnP Browse Tree ā¦ Edit as plain text
Album Artist / Album{no_track_list}
Album Artist / Album\Album
Album
Folders & Filename Browsing
Composer{no_track_list}
Composer\root
Genre{no_track_list}
Genre\root
Dynamic Browsing
Dynamic Browsing\Artist{a_to_z}
Dynamic Browsing\Composer{a_to_z}
Dynamic Browsing\Conductor{a_to_z}
Dynamic Browsing\Genre
Dynamic Browsing\Style
Dynamic Browsing\Year
Dynamic Browsing\Rating
New Albums
I like a simple life 
Hi Gavin, no I canāt give you whysā & whereforesā (sorry to say) Iām not into 'poota language.
All I know is when I have my browse config set to how I want it, thats what the āplain textā edit page looks like.
The Asset default setting for Album Artist/Album is followed by a +\Album line, I guess that line is that.
I keep a copy of the edit plain text as its a handy way to paste in my preferred settings if ever I needed a new install, & that happened a few times with Asset beta testing
My browse config screen looks like this ā¦
I think the difference is that the first will list albums, but not the contents, whereas the second will show album contents when you tap on the album in whichever app youāre using
Iām just guessing, I havenāt tried it yet as Iām nowhere near my system at the moment.
Thanks. Must just be an odd format of the plain text file.
Mine too.
Took me 15 seconds to sort both Artist and Album Artist into chronological album order by swapping Album with Album by Release.
Wanted it for ages and it was so simple and instant.
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