I have added a lot of new albums recently and, as I am one of those really annoying people who likes the index numbers to run from 1 onwards, I tried to re`index my collection but it kept failing. The process gets a bit further along if I start again but it will take ages and many trys to get it to the end.
As far as I can tell there are no missing entries but there are lots of duplicate index numbers now.
I had this problem a few months ago but like the idiot I am I thought I would try it again.
The last time you were able to run the process at your end without issue and I was hoping you could do this for me again. I won’t be re indexing again…I promise.
I’m not sure if we had this conversation earlier but: sorting on 4 fields for re-indexing doesn’t make sense to me. The way you have it now would:
First sort all albums from the same artists together,
then for albums with the same artist, it wil sort them by release year.
Then for all albums that have the same artist AND same release year, it will sort all those on TITLE.
So then, all albums that have the same artist, same release year, and same title, it will sort them on format.
And then it will assign an index number on that.
Can I ask the purpose of that sorting? Is this actually what you want?
(I’m probably able to re-index your albums again one time behind the scenes here, but I’m curious as to why that sort order)
Good afternoon Alwin,
The reason I had behind the selection is that I wanted the albums so that I have Artists, then release year, then titles (There are often more than one title released in a particular year) and then the format (I often buy different formats of the same title, CD, Vinyl, Digital etc.)
This section of the entries for the band Caravan shows what i mean in release year 2002.
There is probably another, easier, way to achieve this.
