Summary: | Sort Years by Ascending; Current Method Incorrectly Sorts Numbers | ||
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Product: | [Applications] amarok | Reporter: | Matt Hubert <matt> |
Component: | Collection Browser | Assignee: | Peter C. Ndikuwera <pndiku> |
Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
Severity: | normal | ||
Priority: | NOR | ||
Version: | 1.4.6 | ||
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Platform: | unspecified | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
Attachments: | Exemple of confusion |
Description
Matt Hubert
2007-08-31 09:03:52 UTC
bug 141049 is related. Created attachment 21559 [details]
Exemple of confusion
This is a representation of the confusion resulting of this 'bug'. It should be
self explanatory I think.
I have the exact same problem, with amaroK v.1.4.6, on Pardus Linux 2007.2. I find it very disturbing: When you select the 'ascending' sorting, the artist and the album are sorted accordingly, but the year is sorted descending. On the contrary, when you select 'descending', the year is now ascending, but not the album or the artist. Really it makes no sense at all. Maybe this is useful for some people, I don't know, but couldn't this be made configurable ? All right, well I think we all realise that the bug exists. Does somebody who's able to want to mark it as confirmed? The problem is that this 'bug' seems to be the approved way for Amarok to work. I remember changing the order many months ago - 1.4.1 or thereabouts - and it was reverted, so I'm reluctant to mark this as CONFIRMED. If I find the submitter, I'll try get his comments. Well, then may I suggest (as others have) having an option to either sort this way (currently dubbed as 'ascending', although it isn't), or sort in a normal, no-hacks-necessary 'descending' mode? I apologise, I got those backwards. Either sort the current way (dubbed 'descending') or sort in a new 'ascending' mode. The "Volume 1", "Volume 2" bug has hit me too so... fix coming up.. SVN commit 712411 by pndiku: BUG: 149408 Sort albums made in the same year alphabetically in 'ascending order', e.g. for a hypothetical best of album: 2000 - The Best of, Volume 1 2000 - The Best of, Volume 2 1999 - Our First Album as opposed to: 2000 - The Best of, Volume 2 2000 - The Best of, Volume 1 1999 - Our First Album M +2 -2 contextbrowser.cpp WebSVN link: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=712411 Awesome, thank you much! But, that's only half the issue. Now we have descending order working properly, but what about ascending order? Example: 1999 - Our First Album 2000 - The Best of, Volume 1 2000 - The Best of, Volume 2 Ascending should at least be an option, because it makes more sense to display your albums like that (for reasons outlined above in the main bug description). And, if you drag an artist into your playlist, it adds it as ascending, despite showing it as descending in the context browser (which I would say is technically a bug). I'd say the proposed solution would be to display your albums in either ascending or our newly-functioning descending order, and depending how you display them, that is how they will be added into the playlist upon adding an artist. Ah, I see. Only issue is that we're not adding new configuration options for 1.4. Maybe for 2.0 we'll do that. :-) |