[slinkelist] Sorting albums

[Saleh Igal]

Reading recent messages on the list, it looks like I'm not the only one that
needs a way to define the sort order.  Besides the issues I have (see
below), other people seem to be having a problem with albums/artists
starting with "A" or "The" as well as the "I want to see 'Dean Martin' but
sort by 'Martin, Dean'" issue.

A user defined sort field would solve all of these issues.  It would require
some manual entry, but I end up doing a lot of manual cleanup on the CDDB
entries anyway.  A more general solution would be, for example, "User1"
through "User4" fields that could be displayed as sortable columns in the
"Library" and "Search" window lists.



(Messages rearranged in chronological order)

>>In CDJ, could you please add "sort" and/or "genere" fields to the
>>details for a CD? I have just under 400 CDs (with two more changers on
>>order) under CDJ management and generally just use the "Library" window.
>>
>>I'd like the CD list to break into logical groups, so Dead Can Dance and
>>Dean Martin don't end up next to each other in alphabetical order.
>>Thus, I could enter a sort field of "Gothic Dead 1986" and a sort field
>>of "Lounge Martin 1965" to group them with their peers.
>>
>>Up to now, I've worked around the problem by putting the CDs in the
>>changer in order and sorting on Player/Disc, but that unoptimizes the
>>ability to pre-queue the alternate changer.  That was good earlier:  I
>>had player 1 hooked to one input and player 2 hooked to another, and
>>only built playlists on one or the other player.  Now that I have a DXS,
>>I'd like to use queueing.

>From: Nirvis Help (David) [mailto:help@nirvis.com]
>Sent: Thursday, December 16, 1999 3:38 pm
>To: Saleh W. Igal
>Subject: Re: Feature
>
>Hi Saleh,
>
>The keyword and search features will allow you to find your music by genre.
>
>Any disc and/or track can have any number of key words associated with 
>it.  You can then go to the search view and find things by those 
>keywords.  Sorting by keywords is a difficult problem since there can be 
>any number of them associated with each disc.
>
>David Aue
>Nirvis Systems