Sometimes I like to listen to my most recent purchases, so have tried the 'Newest tracks' smart playlist.
The issue - and I appreciate this is because Strawberry is track (song) oriented - is that the playlist, whilst showing the most recent albums in the correct order, has the tracks in reverse order (the order in which they were encoded). E.g. the first track to play is the last track on the album; the last track to play is the first track on the album.
I can, of course, click on the 'Album' header in the playlist, so that I get the list sorted by albums title, with the tracks in the 'correct' order (Track 1 first). However, this destroys the 'Newest first' nature of the playlist.
I guess this is insurmountable - I guess that it would require multiple (hierarchical) 'Sorting' rules, rather than the single one currently offered in the playlist creator dialog...
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Metadata fields separator
Apologies if previously covered... Query relates to the separator for multiple entries in Tag metadata fields such as Composer. Having worked with quite a few media players over the years (long-time LMS [logitechmediaserver / Squeezebox] user), I had plumped for a semi-colon separator.
E.g. my 'composer' tag for "She Loves You" by The Beatles is "Lennon;McCartney" - Strawberry faithfully displays this as "Lennon;McCartney"! LMS (e.g.) displays it as "Lennon, McCartney" - the latter being what was intended, of course.
For me it's a bit lost in the mists of time (I did read an awful lot about the subject, yonks ago), but the argument is that a semicolon was chosen as one of the least likely characters to appear in artist / albumartist / composer, etc. tags. And, should thus be interpreted as a multi-item list separator metacharacter. Up to the developer, but should typically be replaced, for interface display purposes, as comma followed by one whitespace (, ).
Any thoughts, anyone? Had a trawl through strawberry.conf, and couldn't find a setting for a configurable metadata list separator character.