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Reverse Sorting String

Now this may be an incedibly stupid question, just wondering how I could get my playlist sorted in reverse order, e.g. from Z to A rather than from A to Z when I'm sorting by artist name. Tried -%Rating%, Reverse %Rating% but nothing seems to work. I don't really want to use the Reverse command every time I try to get my playlist sorted. Is this possible at all?

Reverse Sorting String

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Now this may be an incedibly stupid question, just wondering how I could get my playlist sorted in reverse order, e.g. from Z to A rather than from A to Z when I'm sorting by artist name. Tried -%Rating%, Reverse %Rating% but nothing seems to work. I don't really want to use the Reverse command every time I try to get my playlist sorted. Is this possible at all?
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If it's with numbers, yes.  Just subtract the value from the maximum number for that field.  For instance:
Code: [Select]
$sub(5,%rating%)

will sort reverse by rating.

Reverse Sorting String

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Now this may be an incedibly stupid question, just wondering how I could get my playlist sorted in reverse order, e.g. from Z to A rather than from A to Z when I'm sorting by artist name. Tried -%Rating%, Reverse %Rating% but nothing seems to work. I don't really want to use the Reverse command every time I try to get my playlist sorted. Is this possible at all?
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If it's with numbers, yes.  Just subtract the value from the maximum number for that field.  For instance:
Code: [Select]
$sub(5,%rating%)

will sort reverse by rating.
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Wow! This did the trick. Thank you so much for your fast reply.

Reverse Sorting String

Reply #3 –
Using this sort string:

$if2(%album artist%,%artist%)
$if2(%album artist%,%date%)
$if2(%venue%,%album%)
%__codec%
$sub(10,%rating%)
%disc%

That works so long as all tracks in an album has the %rating% tag. If they dont, the listing will be wrong, like 10,9,tracks with missing tag,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1.
Btw i use 1-10 rating, and only display 1-10 instead of all those dots etc, that shouldnt matter though.

Any ideas topdownjimmy?

Reverse Sorting String

Reply #4 –
A cop-out solution is: Sort your playlist first so that the tracks are in the "forwards" order (the one that you want to invert). Then resort your playlist with something like

$num($sub(999999999,%_playlist_number%),9)

Haven't tested this but something like the above should do it. Sorry it's a two-step solution.

Reverse Sorting String

Reply #5 –
@Zoominee: I have a "Playlist->Sort->Reverse" option, which should be much cleaner than the method you suggested.

Reverse Sorting String

Reply #6 –
@gfngfgf: Cool, i probably have that option too then! Never occurred to me because i've never thought about reverse sorting playlists until i saw this thread...