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Request: Sorted playlists

I cant sort playlist the way that I like (drag & drop), neither in classic default UI neither panels UI. Seriously, noone noticed lack of this till now?

Request: Sorted playlists

Reply #1 –
Quote from: Xezzy on
Seriously, noone noticed lack of this till now?


I guess the people are satisfied with using Ctrl Shift Up and Ctrl Shift Down

Request: Sorted playlists

Reply #2 –
You can certainly reorder playlist items in the default (please don't call it "classic") user interface.

Just select the items which you would like to reorder and use drag and drop.

Request: Sorted playlists

Reply #3 –
Quote from: Frank Bicking on
You can certainly reorder playlist items in the default (please don't call it "classic") user interface.

Just select the items which you would like to reorder and use drag and drop.

Time consuming if you have playlist with 30+ tracks o.0 There are 3 fast ways to play playlist:
1.by random
2.whole albums
3.by order
I prefer the latter.

Request: Sorted playlists

Reply #4 –
Why not have a column built specifically to sort based on whatever criteria you use? (You can use the "Sort by..." option as well.)

BTW, as Frank mentioned, Drag and Drop IS supported in the DUI; does it not satisfy your requirements?

Request: Sorted playlists

Reply #5 –
Quote from: kanak on
Why not have a column built specifically to sort based on whatever criteria you use? (You can use the "Sort by..." option as well.)

BTW, as Frank mentioned, Drag and Drop IS supported in the DUI; does it not satisfy your requirements?


Nope, cause whenever I click sort by artist or whatever, all moving and shaking is lost. But maybe I can live with that, as long as I wont change sort

Request: Sorted playlists

Reply #6 –
Quote from: Xezzy on
Nope, cause whenever I click sort by artist or whatever, all moving and shaking is lost. But maybe I can live with that, as long as I wont change sort


So when you manually rearrange files, are you using some fixed criteria (looking at rating etc), or simply reordering based on your whims? If it's the first, you can use the method i've talked about.

Request: Sorted playlists

Reply #7 –
Quote from: kanak on
Quote from: Xezzy on

Nope, cause whenever I click sort by artist or whatever, all moving and shaking is lost. But maybe I can live with that, as long as I wont change sort


So when you manually rearrange files, are you using some fixed criteria (looking at rating etc), or simply reordering based on your whims? If it's the first, you can use the method i've talked about.


No, its completly subjective. Its music, not mathematical equations

Request: Sorted playlists

Reply #8 –
Quote from: Xezzy on
No, its completly subjective. Its music, not mathematical equations


Now i'm confused. Drag and Drop is implemented (which is what you originally asked for), so are keyboard shortcuts to do those moving in a much more efficient manner.

What do you want implemented to improve the current behavior?

Request: Sorted playlists

Reply #9 –
I think he wants to be able to sort the playlists by something (eg. random) and then can turn back to his "subjective sort".
so their are some possibilities:
-use multiple playlists
-save your playlist
-use undo (ctrl-z)
-somehow add an tag to all files with the list-number and then sort by that tag
 

Request: Sorted playlists

Reply #11 –
tagging: (you need the masstagger component for this)
-select files
-tagging/manage scripts
-add action: format value from other fields...
-dest field: SORTNUMBER (or what you prefer) -pattern: %list_index%
-run (you can save it and then later tag the files with one click)

sorting:
sort by %SORTNUMBER%