Bug 138944

Summary: Sorting playlist by artist sorts by album before sorting by year
Product: [Applications] amarok Reporter: Nael Masood <neochaos>
Component: generalAssignee: Amarok Bugs <amarok-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal    
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 1.4.4   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Ubuntu   
OS: Linux   
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Description Nael Masood 2006-12-18 04:10:45 UTC
Version:           1.4.4 (using KDE KDE 3.5.5)
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages
OS:                Linux

Using Amarok 1.4.4 in Kubuntu 6.10 ("Edgy").

I currently want to sort my Amarok playlist by artist, followed by year an album was released, then album name. I can sort the whole list by year, or by album. But when i try to sort the whole playlist by artists, individual artists' tracks are sorted by album name first, not year.

Example: I have the following three tracks (info is artist-year-album-title)

Backstreet Boys - 1999 - Millenium - Larger than Life
Backstreet Boys - 2001 - The Hits: Chapter One - Drowning
Backstreet Boys - 2005 - Never Gone - Incomplete

They are listed in the order I expect them to be ordered. When I order the playlist by album, then year, and then finally by artist I instead get this order:

Backstreet Boys - 1999 - Millenium - Larger than Life
Backstreet Boys - 2005 - Never Gone - Incomplete
Backstreet Boys - 2001 - The Hits: Chapter One - Drowning

There doesn't seem be any option in the playlist to choose a preference for sorting by fields (I know there's such an option in the Music Library, but I don't use it).
Comment 1 Alexandre Oliveira 2006-12-18 23:44:59 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 111157 ***