[Your Library] Order/sort albums by release date/year

[Suikkari]

Now that the original release year should be available please add an option to the new album view to use it for sorting.

there could be options for at least:

"SORTED BY ARTIST / YEAR"

"SORTED BY ARTIST / TITLE"

"SORTED BY YEAR"

There could be some kind of subtle separator where the artist changes when listing the album covers. Also the release year should be shown in the album images.

[Crnelius]

Why would you not do it?

[bloodshy]

just do this, spotify.  it's necessary and everyone wants it.

[theteacat]

I've implemented a simple little web app that does this.

https://theteacat.github.io/albums-by-year/

Enjoy 🙂

[trustfundbaby]

Love this idea so much that I originally suggested it before being notified it was a duplicate of this 😄

I think its the closest thing to time travel we'll ever have!

[brietman]

Wow thnx theteacat , it's not perfect, but it works and looks great! Many thanks. Maybe you should work for Spotify 😉.

[theteacat]

Thanks breitman! Feel free to make an issue on the Github repository if you spot a bug or have a feature request. 🙂

[kbennall]

How is this a "new idea"? There are threads requesting this going back YEARS! 

[fridgecreative]

Amazing! Thanks @theteacat.

This has bugged me for years that I couldn't simply just view my albums by date. It was my only real issue with Spotify.

Love the fact that you've included toggles for Albums/Singles/Compliations too. Brilliant.

I am honestly so grateful!

[mooshisooshi]

I would love to see this! It would definitely make my decade playlists way easier to make instead of searching up every song in my liked songs for the release date 😕

[alexhorbach]

Please add this! There's a lack of functionalities when it comes to organizing the library. This is what prevents me from completely abandoning iTunes.