Does anyone have a solution for sorting a music library by release date as a secondary sort?
What I’m trying to do is use the default album sort by album artist but instead of sorting album titles by name, which it does by default, I’d like them to sort by release date (originallyAvailableAt) instead. This is how I shelved my vinyls when I had several thousand of them years ago; Artist > Album by Release Date.
For example, Plex sorts these albums by default:
John Denver, Autograph (released 2/1980)
John Denver, Windsong (released 9/1975)
I’d like to sort this way:
John Denver, Windsong (released 9/1975)
John Denver, Autograph (released 2/1980)
The only way I’ve been able to make this work so far is to prefix the album title in the “Sort Album” field with 197509 and 198002 respectively but I fear it would be a tremendous amount of work.
If I remember correctly, when you hit “Save Changes” it causes a complete refresh of the Music Library, so you might have a long wait to see the change if it’s a large library.
Maybe something to be considered in the new and improved Music thing we’re promised will be here shortly. Seems like an oversight for the option to not be consistent across views.
This sort only acts on individual artists rather than acting on the entire library. I tried using both Library default and Oldest first and both sorted my library the same way. This was in response to a feature some time ago that was previously only possible by hacking the registry in Windows.
My goal is to sort oldest first when sorting my entire library because that’s how the albums for each artist are sorted. It should be sorting consistently but it’s not. As you can see, the albums sort by date for the artist but sort alpanumeric for the artist in the library.
