Is there a better way to view podcasts than by genre in the DB?

[floepie]

Currently, my iTunes auto-tags all podcasts with genre 'podcasts'.  So, in the database, when I select podcasts, the next view is naturally the artist.  As you well know, that is not intuitive, as the artist of a podcast is not all that apparent.  Is there a way to have it go directly to the name of the podcast directory (i.e. TWiT) without first having to see the list of 'artists'?  Thanks...

[GodEater]

Yes, but you'll need to get familiar with the tagnavi syntax, and write yourself a custom one that does what you want.

All I can do I'm afraid is point you at the documentation, since I personally don't use the database at all.

http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/DataBase#tagnavi_config_v2_0_Syntax

[floepie]

OK, thanks.  I have it pretty much worked out.  However, I'd like to sort the podcasts by 'date modified' in reverse order so that new ones appear at the top of the list.  Is this possible?  Not all podcasts are tagged with a track number, and I don't want to sort by title name either.  I'd like it just as I'm accustomed with the ipod firmware.  I don't see of a better way to sort such that newer podcasts appear at the top.  Some podcasts *can* be sorted by name, as their titles are "whatever #23" and "whatever #24", but many feeds are not titled with their number.  Thanks...

EDIT:  Additionally, I'm trying to use an album format such that they're displayed like "album (year)".  Should be easy enough.  So, I have this:
%format "fmt_album" "%s (%04d)" album year

But, that shows all albums as "album (00-2)".  If I raise the value to 8, the albums show as "album (000000-2)".   What's wrong with the above line?