GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 670377
Add sorting options for browser
Last modified: 2020-03-17 09:28:34 UTC
I would think this request is fairly straight forward; it would be extremely useful if the album browser could be sorted in various different way. Unfortunately it's a little hard to look through the album list/grid if there is wayyyy too many albums to look through. Sure the search bar can be used, but for touch screens or for those who like the visual/album art searching better would definitely love this. For example under "View" there can be submenu called "Sort Albums" where a list something of the sort would be shown: Sort by Album Name (the current default) Sort by Album Artist (As in by Artist, then by Name) Sort by Average Rating (Average rating of all the songs) Sort by Album Length (Total length of all songs) Maybe also a Reverse Order Option at the bottom? I attached a picture to help describe my idea. As well, if it's not too much work, this also could be useful for the Artist Browser too! :)
Thank you for your suggestion. It's similar to bug #561109, but with a wider scope, so let's keep the two separate. It looks like the picture you mention is missing. I guess you forgot to attach it.
Created attachment 207999 [details] Album sort illustration Oh my apologies I must have forgotten to attach this. Here's the illusion of my idea/suggestion.
what do you mean by total length ? total duration of total size of song files ?
I meant length of the Album in time. For example, 10 songs, all of which are 5 minutes long, would have an album length of 10*5=50 minutes. Though on an additional note, one could also add "Album Size" to the list (as in number of songs on the album), either as a compliment or a replacement if more desired for memory reasons.
Created attachment 210512 [details] [review] sort album by rating and duration this patch must be apply after the first patch on old bug 561109
Banshee is not under active development anymore and had its last code changes more than three years ago. Its codebase has been archived. Closing this report as WONTFIX as part of Bugzilla Housekeeping to reflect reality. Please feel free to reopen this ticket (or rather transfer the project to GNOME Gitlab, as GNOME Bugzilla is being shut down) if anyone takes the responsibility for active development again. See https://gitlab.gnome.org/Infrastructure/Infrastructure/issues/264 for more info.