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.
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 bugzilla. gnome.org.
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Chow Loong Jin