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jam_dav · 2021-03-17, 05:04

In Kodi Krypton my movies list view would list the movie name and the year of release. In Kodi Matrix the list view displays the movie name and a rating. I cannot find a setting that lets me change it back to the year nor does any search I've tried return a solution. None of the metadata has changed, just an in place upgrade of Kodi from Krypton to Matrix. The rating has no meaning to me and I use the year of release to determine a movie series order when they aren't conveniently named. If anyone can point my blind self to the setting I would much appreciate it.

**DaveBlake** · 2021-03-17, 18:12

What is displayed on the right hand side of list view in Esturay (and many other skins) varies depending on sort order. It is not something that you can configure, but if you sort by year (change the sort order in the side blade) then it will show year.

**jjd-uk** · 2021-03-17, 18:34

Looking at the code there doesn't appear to have been any change in sort criteria for Title sort provided by the Kodi core. To show year on the default skin you need to change Sort Methoid to year on the sideblade menu

If you are using a skin other than Estuary then maybe the skin author has changed something as skin can specifiy their own sorting.

jam_dav · 2021-03-17, 18:37

(2021-03-17, 18:12)DaveBlake Wrote: What is displayed on the right hand side of list view in Esturay (and many other skins) varies depending on sort order. It is not something that you can configure, but if you sort by year (change the sort order in the side blade) then it will show year.

Thank you for that information. I confirm it does work as you describe but surely if a sort order can determine what value is displayed there it can be configured. Sorting by year is less desirable than sorting by title. I'm not even sure where that rating value comes from but it is meaningless to me.

jam_dav · 2021-03-17, 18:39

(2021-03-17, 18:34)jjd-uk Wrote: Looking at the code there doesn't appear to have been any change in sort criteria for Title sort provided by the Kodi core. To show year on the default skin you need to change Sort Methoid to year on the sideblade menu

If you are using a skin other than Estuary then maybe the skin author has changed something as skin can specifiy their own sorting.

I am using the default skin that comes with Kodi which I assume is Estuary and use the same in Kodi Krypton but the list view is different between the versions.

FXB78 · 2021-03-17, 18:51

(2021-03-17, 18:39)jam_dav Wrote:
(2021-03-17, 18:34)jjd-uk Wrote: Looking at the code there doesn't appear to have been any change in sort criteria for Title sort provided by the Kodi core. To show year on the default skin you need to change Sort Methoid to year on the sideblade menu

If you are using a skin other than Estuary then maybe the skin author has changed something as skin can specifiy their own sorting.

I am using the default skin that comes with Kodi which I assume is Estuary and use the same in Kodi Krypton but the list view is different between the versions.

What source are you using, are the Movies scanned into the Library?

jam_dav · 2021-03-17, 19:01

(2021-03-17, 18:51)FXB78 Wrote: What source are you using, are the Movies scanned into the Library?

The source is configured as nfs. The storage is a synology nas that was configured under Krypton. An in place upgrade using the upgrade add-on in Kodi was used to upgrade to Matrix.

jam_dav · 2021-03-17, 19:02

Also since I don't see an edit post option here, yes the movies are scanned into the library.

**jjd-uk** · (This post was last modified: 2021-03-17, 19:09 by jjd-uk.)

I just check both Krypton and Leia and indeed they show date on right hand side which is completely at odds with what the code says should happen https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/blob/master...o.cpp#L230 it's defined there as Title and Rating and this has not changed. Maybe there was a bug before that has now been resolved to apply the correct sort attributes, although I can't see at the moment what could have possibly caused this change.

**jjd-uk** · 2021-03-17, 19:09

(2021-03-17, 19:02)jam_dav Wrote: Also since I don't see an edit post option here, yes the movies are scanned into the library.

It's an anti-spam measure for new forum posters, once you get past the Newbie status you'll be able to edit posts.

jam_dav · 2021-03-17, 19:10

(2021-03-17, 19:07)jjd-uk Wrote: I just check both Krypton and Leia and indeed they show date on right hand side which is completely at odds with what the code says should happen https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/blob/master...o.cpp#L230 it's defined there as Title and Rating and this has not changed. Maybe there was a bug before that has now been resolved to apply the correct sort attributes, although I can't see at the moment what could have possibly caused this change.

Thank you for confirming. At least now I don't feel like I've gone mad (at least about this lol).

**jjd-uk** · (This post was last modified: 2021-03-17, 19:19 by jjd-uk.)

While it appears what is happening now is correct behaviour (and always should have happened), I'd agree that how it was before might be preferable to some, so a alphabetical title sorting with year displayed, so I'll try and find the time to take a look as it will likely need a new Sort method.

jam_dav · 2021-03-17, 19:33

(2021-03-17, 19:18)jjd-uk Wrote: While it appears what is happening now is correct behaviour (and always should have happened), I'd agree that how it was before might be preferable to some, so a alphabetical title sorting with year displayed, so I'll try and find the time to take a look as it will likely need a new Sort method.

Awesome, thank you.

**scott967** · 2021-03-17, 23:28

For some background info, Kodi provides skinners a text label named "Label2" which is intended to be displayed on the right side of listed items. The actual info is defined by Kodi. Thus skins can use this label to get a context-aware info. But skins also have the option to fine tune what is displayed by using more specific labels. Estuary skin does do this for a couple of contexts.

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**DaveBlake** · 2021-03-18, 09:04

(2021-03-17, 19:18)jjd-uk Wrote: While it appears what is happening now is correct behaviour (and always should have happened), I'd agree that how it was before might be preferable to some, so a alphabetical title sorting with year displayed, so I'll try and find the time to take a look as it will likely need a new Sort method.

@jjd-uk I think the decision to tie the label2 contents to sort order was made for v16 or maybe v15, before that it was partly user configurable. Personally I would like to offer a user configurable approach again rather than hard coded, so that label2 defaults to the sort parameter but can be whatever the user chooses. Also let's not confuse sort method with label2, don't think about a dirty "fix" that adds methods e.g. sorting by title showing X, sorting by title showing Y etc., sorting by title is one sort method and filling label2 with X or Y is some other parameter.