This feature was requested in 2019, but the request has since been locked. I’m re-opening it, as this would still be a very useful feature.
When viewing very large, manually created collections (examples include The Criterion Collection, Academy Award Winners, Disney Animated Films), it’s often a better experience to see the newest items first.
This is especially true when including collections on the Library Recommended or Home page — I’d like to see the newest stuff first in the carousel, without having to scroll. This means the displayed collection will noticeably update as new items are added, instead of always showing the same handful of items every time.
Currently, my workaround for this is utilizing the new custom order (drag-and-drop), which means manually reversing the order of each collection. This is painstakingly slow, and very difficult for large collections where I’m dragging an item and scrolling simultaneously.
Also… the feature suggestion you’re referring is still there, having some but not much support/votes.
I suggest you vote/comment in that thread instead in order to avoid distracting/dispersing votes even further by having another duplicate suggestion.
PS:
As BigWheel pointed out – as long as your collection is based on metadata information you can also use a Smart Collection which allows all kinds of sorting.
In this particular case, the collection has to be created manually — there is no metadata for “Academy Award Winners;” I have to edit each item to add this tag. If I create a smart collection from an existing collection, it’s just clutter as I’d then have two copies of the same collection in different sort orders.
I searched but didn’t find that other request, and will certainly vote for it! Thanks!
