Weird Album Sorting on Artist Page

[TinDefacto]

Hi there!

Some recent update -- I'm not sure which one -- sent the sorting of albums on an artist's page all out of wack. Now the order of an artist's releases may be (as in one case for me) 2021, 2016, 2019, 2013, 2020, 2013, 2011, 2014, 2019, 2016, 2022. It's not even alphabetical, so I'm really confused! I really appreciated the previous chronological order, and I don't see this issue being raised elsewhere, so I figured I'd point it out.

Thanks again for all the work y'all do. :)

[Chaphasilor]

That might've been #448 or #493

Could you check the full metadata in Jellyfin to see what the PremiereDate of these albums is, compared to the production year?

[TinDefacto]

Oh, interesting -- thanks for the response! I hadn't seen #448, and that looks most likely to be the culprit, but when I look at the metadata on Jellyfin, literally only one of the albums has a release date, and that's the 2022 one (which appears last). So I'm not sure what's going on?

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On Thu, Nov 23, 2023 at 3:03 AM Chaphasilor ***@***.***> wrote: That might've been #448 <#448> or #493 <#493> Could you check the full metadata in Jellyfin to see what the PremiereDate of these albums is, compared to the production year? — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#536 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/APV3DXJKVRC2ZBF7OGLVDGDYF37MPAVCNFSM6AAAAAA7XI5VB2VHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43OSLTON2WKQ3PNVWWK3TUHMYTQMRTHE2DMNJYG4> . You are receiving this because you authored the thread.Message ID: ***@***.***>

[TinDefacto]

And doing a quick survey of other artists, it seems like it's correctly sorting albums that have release dates filled in -- but for those that only have a year, I can't find rhyme or reason to the order it decides on. On Thu, Nov 23, 2023 at 3:34 AM Sebastian J. Garza < ***@***.***> wrote:

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Oh, interesting -- thanks for the response! I hadn't seen #448, and that looks most likely to be the culprit, but when I look at the metadata on Jellyfin, literally only one of the albums has a release date, and that's the 2022 one (which appears last). So I'm not sure what's going on? On Thu, Nov 23, 2023 at 3:03 AM Chaphasilor ***@***.***> wrote: > That might've been #448 <#448> or > #493 <#493> > > Could you check the full metadata in Jellyfin to see what the > PremiereDate of these albums is, compared to the production year? > > — > Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub > <#536 (comment)>, > or unsubscribe > <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/APV3DXJKVRC2ZBF7OGLVDGDYF37MPAVCNFSM6AAAAAA7XI5VB2VHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43OSLTON2WKQ3PNVWWK3TUHMYTQMRTHE2DMNJYG4> > . > You are receiving this because you authored the thread.Message ID: > ***@***.***> >

[Chaphasilor]

If there is no release date provided, the order is most likely just random, as you are observing. We should fall back to sorting by production year and then name I think

[TinDefacto]

Yes, I think that would make the most sense! Preferably by taking any blank release dates to be YEAR-01-01, so it gets sorted in with the dates ones, if that makes sense.

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On Thu, Nov 23, 2023 at 6:34 AM Chaphasilor ***@***.***> wrote: If there is no release date provided, the order is most likely just random, as you are observing. We should fall back to sorting by production year and then name I think — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#536 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/APV3DXMYVPGF3JI7PTCS7HTYF4YF7AVCNFSM6AAAAAA7XI5VB2VHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43OSLTON2WKQ3PNVWWK3TUHMYTQMRUGI3TCNBWGU> . You are receiving this because you authored the thread.Message ID: ***@***.***>

[Chaphasilor]

@Maxr1998 once mentioned that the server will fall back to sorting by year if it can't sort by date. So this issue is a bit confusing.
It it still happening in the latest beta? We've made some more changes to sorting on the artist screen :)

[Maxr1998]

I remember doing two PRs for this issue, since some changes were undone in between. Maybe that's just an artifact of that, and not actually an issue? @TinDefacto could you verify whether it's still an issue on the latest version?

And yes, the current settings also work if just a production year is set on the album, and the PremiereDate is missing.

[TinDefacto]

Hi! Okay, thanks so much for your work on this -- though I think it still needs a bit more work! Some artists on my server (like those that have multiple releases per year) have full release dates for each album -- these are now displayed in perfect chronological order, which is immaculate. However! For other artists I either have a mix of exact release dates or blank ones (i.e. just the release year) or only years for each release, no exact release date. These it seems to just be putting in alphabetical order by album name, which is very much not what I want. What I feel might be a good solution is to, for albums with only years and no release date, sort it by release date by filling in the missing ones with YYYY-01-01 (or something similar). Does that seem reasonable/doable? Thank you again!!

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On Wed, Nov 13, 2024 at 9:36 AM Max Rumpf ***@***.***> wrote: I remember doing two PRs for this issue, since some changes were undone in between. Maybe that's just an artifact of that, and not actually an issue? @TinDefacto <https://github.com/TinDefacto> could you verify whether it's still an issue on the latest version? — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#536 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/APV3DXPK5LTWYEQRH5OCRS32ANPWDAVCNFSM6AAAAABRWTYABOVHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43OSLTON2WKQ3PNVWWK3TUHMZDINZTHAYDAMRRHA> . You are receiving this because you were mentioned.Message ID: ***@***.***>

[Maxr1998]

As the sorting is done on the server side (except when offline), I suppose it should be fixed there instead. But thanks for reporting it, I'll give it a look when I find some time.