Fall back to year when Sorting by Premiere Date

[DoUEvenComputer 1]

I noticed this recently when reorganizing some of my media where the release date field is blank but the year field is valid. I thought I'd suggest a change.

When sorting by "release date" or "premiere date" in ascending order:

• Emby for macOS 2.1.6 and Emby Web 4.7.5.0
  • Titles with empty release date fields (but with a valid year) are listed at the top of their respective Year as though to use YYYY-01-01
• Emby for AndroidTV 2.0.79g
  • Titles with empty release date fields (but with a valid year) are listed very first in the list as though to use date 0000-01-01

If it's possible to have AndroidTV function the same, that would be great. To me it makes sense to "fall back" to the year if the release/premiere date is empty/unavailable. As it works now, when I sort by release date ascending, I have several movies of various years listed first even though they are clearly not the oldest media.

[Luke 42078]

Hi.  Can you try sideloading our standard android app on the same device and see how that compares?

https://emby.media/emby-for-android.html

Thanks.

 

[DoUEvenComputer 1]

I've sideloaded Android version 3.2.84 and confirmed this is not an issue. Thanks for that suggestion!

I read somewhere that the Android app will eventually replace the AndroidTV app on these devices. Will the Android version eventually be what the device downloads from the official Google Play store?

[Luke 42078]

2 hours ago, DoUEvenComputer said:

I've sideloaded Android version 3.2.84 and confirmed this is not an issue. Thanks for that suggestion!

I read somewhere that the Android app will eventually replace the AndroidTV app on these devices. Will the Android version eventually be what the device downloads from the official Google Play store?

Yes although I'm not sure when that will be. Thanks for the feedback.