Duet Album order; composers

[RabanePaco]

After quite some hassle (see another post of me), just yesterday I got my Duet combo at last working.

It's really great! I love it.

I have started reading into the Wiki and I have searched the faq, but can't find an answer to the following couple of problems.

- The album order of my music collection seems more or less random. I have tagged all the albums neatly in Mediamonkey. (Bach: Brandenburg, Bach: Concerto's, Beethoven Symphonies, etc). I would like them in alphabetic order like in Media|Monkey. How do I do this?

- Is there a way to get an index of composers on the Duet controller?

Thanks.

[RabanePaco]

Now I see albums are sorted by artist (performer, orchestra in my DB).

How can I change this? Sqeezecenter Settings gives the choice "List albums by all artists for that album" or "List albums by band". [What is the difference?] I suppose this choice decides is the sort order?

But I want "Sort album by album (name)". I don't know by heart who performed my Bach Brandenburg concert's [In fact this one I happen to know, but most I don't remember by heart]. And I might have two different performances, that I want to keep next to each other.

I'm probably spoiled with MediaMonkey.

Hope someone can help, or at least give some pointers.

Thanks.

[amcluesent]

>Is there a way to get an index of composers on the Duet controller?<

Yep, CustomBrowse plug-in for the SqueezeCenter. Assuming you've added the Composer tags of course

>Sqeezecenter Settings gives the choice "List albums by all artists for that album"...<

So those setting are only relevant for compilation albums. Unless you've used the Artist field for something else, most classical albums wouldn't have differing artists across the tracks.

I use CustomBrowse for all my browse menus, it has no problem order by album name when looking at composers, genres etc.

[RabanePaco]

>Yep, CustomBrowse plug-in for the SqueezeCenter. Assuming you've added the Composer tags of course

Does this also gives other menu's on the duet's controller? There I need them most!

[amcluesent]

>Does this also gives other menu's on the duet's controller<

Yes. You may need to use the Controller's menu editor to enable these additional options and switch off the default Browse menus.

[slimpy]

Now I see albums are sorted by artist (performer, orchestra in my DB).

How can I change this?

In the default web interface when browsing albums click the dropdown list at the bottom left and choose your sort order.

On the controller it's somewhere in settings - advanced.

-s.

[RabanePaco]

[rabanePaco: albums are sorted by artist ] On the controller it's somewhere in settings - advanced.

How simple! RTFM, stupid (to myself).
This makes the controller much more useful.
Thanks.

[RabanePaco]

>Does this also gives other menu's on the duet's controller<

Yes. You may need to use the Controller's menu editor to enable these additional options and switch off the default Browse menus.

Sorry, but where do I find the "Controller's menu editor"?
I can't find something like this mentioned in Wiki, in the Faq's or with the applets.

[amcluesent]

>where do I find the "Controller's menu editor"? <

On the Controller, Settings->Home Menu

[RabanePaco]

>where do I find the "Controller's menu editor"? <
On the Controller, Settings->Home Menu

But, sadly, Conductors is not one of the choices.

But you can add composers through Custom Browse plugin also in the controller. Still have to find out the best way to do this all.