Bug: Android Auto inconsistent sorting of albums

pmattke — Sun, 04 Nov 2018 23:40:05 GMT

A few months ago, when using Spotify via Android Auto, it behaved like this:

Go to your music library
Select Albums
Albums are sorted by Artist, which is good IMHO because you can find them faster
Select a start letter to find what you're searching for
Albums are still sorted by Artist, so if I selected F, I would for example find the Foo Fighters Albums in my library

But since a while now, behaviour changed. Now It's like this:

The initial list of albums when you go to your albums, is still sorted by Artist
This makes me expect that, when I select a letter, I would find albums of artists that start with that letter.
But actually, when I now select a letter, it shows me albums that start with that letter, which is not what I expected. So selecting F would not show me the Foo Fighters albums (except the self titled one obiously), but for all other ones I would have to remember the album title

This only relates to Android Auto

Is this a bug or a feature? Imho, the old behaviour was much better. I don't find it quite user friendly, when selecting a letter changes the way the items are sorted.

And I think most people would remember the artist of their albums better then the album titles. So why did this behaviour change?

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Bug: Android Auto inconsistent sorting of albums