Albums not sorted when using multiple NAS directories

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#1

I have my music sorted by quality: lossy, lossless (cd) and hd audio. These are top level directories under a ‘music’ share. Under each of these is a directory tree with albums.

I pointed Volumio (current version, on an RPi 3B) to ‘//servername/music/hdaudio’ first and it imported it fine.
Then I added ‘//servername/media/lossy’ and that imported fine as well, but the Albums view is not sorted anymore. Instead, I see the hd audio albums first, sorted A…Z, then the lossy albums sorted A…Z. Strangely, the Artists view is sorted the way you’d expect it (a single listing, A…Z).

I let it sit there overnight and I believe it finished importing everything.

I have other things I do not wish to import into Volumio under //servername/music so I cannot simply import that.

Is this behavior expected?

#2

OK, I had another look and think I should have named this “Album view sorted by path name rather than album name”.

I created a test share and put a couple of albums:

Coldplay - Live 2012/ Dire Straits - Love Over Gold/ Foo Fighters - Wasting Light/ Garbage - Bleed Like Me/ Imagine Dragons - Evolve [Deluxe Edition]/ Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker/ Muse - Absolution/ Muse - Showbiz/ Rammstein - Herzeleid/ The Cult - Love/
The album view is like this:
volumio1.jpg

Next, I moved the music into two subdirectories:

dir1/ dir1/Dire Straits - Love Over Gold/ dir1/Garbage - Bleed Like Me/ dir1/Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker/ dir1/Muse - Showbiz/ dir1/The Cult - Love/ dir2/ dir2/Coldplay - Live 2012/ dir2/Foo Fighters - Wasting Light/ dir2/Imagine Dragons - Evolve [Deluxe Edition]/ dir2/Muse - Absolution/ dir2/Rammstein - Herzeleid/ dir2/The Who - Tommy/
The album view is no longer sorted by artist:
volumio2.jpg

Finally, I put everything back in the top-level directory but renamed the path names like this:

01 - Foo Fighters - Wasting Light/ 02 - The Cult - Love/ 03 - Rammstein - Herzeleid/ 04 - Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker/ 05 - Muse - Showbiz/ 06 - Imagine Dragons - Evolve [Deluxe Edition]/ 07 - Muse - Absolution/ 08 - Dire Straits - Love Over Gold/ 09 - Garbage - Bleed Like Me/ 10 - The Who - Tommy/ 11 - Coldplay - Live 2012 /
The album view follows:
volumio3.jpg

It seems that (unlike the artist and genre views), the album view follows the filesystem layout and is not a database view.

My actual media library is > 90K files, so you can imagine that I use something a bit more elaborate than “all albums in their own dir under a single share” to store it. Unfortunately, this makes the album view rather useless as it’s impossible to find anything in a view of thousands of albums if they’re not sorted.

Is this intentional, not implemented or a bug?

#3

Not implemented, but we can fix it!

#4

+1 for me, would be great to have this fixed.
thank you in advance (and thanks overall for volumio)

#5

I’m also sorting music into directories such as FLAC, MP3, Vinyl Rip so I have the same issue. Would be nice to see it fixed :slight_smile: