Unable to sort by Artist then Song Name

On Saturday 24,April,2010 02:15 PM, Vaughan Chandler wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> Binary package hint: banshee
>
> When you sort your music by the artist column, the album name is always
> used as the secondary sort field, followed by track number, even if
> those columns are not being shown. This makes the songs seem to be
> sorted randomly for each artist, since the song names are not taken into
> account by the sort algorithm.
>
> For example, with only the artist and track name columns showing, you would see the following:
> ARTIST | NAME
> Guns N' Roses | Patience
> Guns N' Roses | Don't Cry
> Guns N' Roses | November Rain
>
> That appears to be sorted incorrectly, and only seems ok when the other columns are also visible, example:
> ARTIST | ALBUM | NUMBER | NAME
> Guns N' Roses | G N' R Lies | 5 | Patience
> Guns N' Roses | Use Your Illusion I | 4 | Don't Cry
> Guns N' Roses | Use Your Illusion I | 10 | November Rain
>
> Perhaps Banshee should automatically ignore hidden columns when sorting,
> or maybe just allow the user to specify a sort variable, such as "%A -
> %T" to sort by artist then track name.
>
> I am using Banshee 1.6.0-1 on Lucid (pre-release), but I've noticed this
> since I started using Banshee, several releases back.

Confirming, I have also noticed this behaviour.

  importance wishlist
  status confirmed

It would be great if you could forward this bug upstream to
http://bugzilla.gnome.org.

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Kind regards,
Chow Loong Jin

Thanks for the response. Should I post the bug upstream or is that for somebody involved with the banshee project to to do? This is my first bug report so I'm not sure about the process.

On Sunday 25,April,2010 03:50 AM, Vaughan Chandler wrote:
> Thanks for the response. Should I post the bug upstream or is that for
> somebody involved with the banshee project to to do? This is my first
> bug report so I'm not sure about the process.
>

If you could forward it upstream, that would be really great. Otherwise, someone
else would have to do it anyway, and I currently don't have the time to do it.

--
Kind regards,
Chow Loong Jin

I reported it upstream: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=616737

I have linked this report to the upstream one and I have marked as triaged for now because is still valid. Thanks!