xedothecat wrote:Hi there. A feature I would like to see added is the ability to sort by different fields after each field selection... if that makes sense. For example, I can only browse by artist->album (through the Library section) or by genre->album (through the Album List section). I have a lot of albums and I would love for the ability to view a list of artists in each genre first, before a complete album list. That way I can browse genre->artist->album so I could get a better overview of what I have available, instead of having to scroll through hundreds of albums. Would this be a possible/easy addition? Thanks in advance.
Interesting idea. The API only returns Songs by genre, so I would guess that the app, much like the Web UI, just looks through the song metadata to pull out the albums it lists. It probably wouldn't be much to take that info and filter by artist first, and cache the album info so only the albums from that genre are included when you browse the artist.
It may be slow, though: the album version just shows the albums as it finds them; it just fetches songs until it has enough unique albums to fill a page, then stops. To really get a complete list of all artists with songs in a genre, via the API, an app would need to load *every* song by genre since it can't presume there is any specific order in which the songs are returned.