Sort Playlist by full path!

[Squeller]

Hi,

IMO the most natural and obvious sorting of playlists is missing: By full file path (including file name). I have a classical collection on my Android which is perfectly sorted in file system.  I want to put classical works into a "Backlog" queue. There they appear in order of being added. I wish I could sort them like they are sorted in file system.

It could include those:

\Atterberg, Kurt\Symphony No. 03 (Rasilainen - RHDN)\3.01. I. Soldis - Sun Smoke. Lento.m4a
\Atterberg, Kurt\Symphony No. 03 (Rasilainen - RHDN)\3.02. II. Storm. Con fuoco.m4a
\Atterberg, Kurt\Symphony No. 03 (Rasilainen - RHDN)\3.03. III. Sommarnatt - Summer Night. Adagio -.m4a
\Shostakovich, Dmitri\Symphony No. 12 (Haitink - RCO)\1.01. I. Revolutionary Petrograd.m4a
\Shostakovich, Dmitri\Symphony No. 12 (Haitink - RCO)\1.02. II. Razliv.m4a
\Shostakovich, Dmitri\Symphony No. 12 (Haitink - RCO)\1.03. III. Aurora.m4a
\Shostakovich, Dmitri\Symphony No. 12 (Haitink - RCO)\1.04. IV. The dawn of humanity.m4a

Now I may want to sort it. There is no way I can sort by folder structure. Sorting by album makes no sense, many same names ("Symphony No. 3"), breaks the composer order.

Thanks for consideration.

Edited January 13, 2023 by Squeller

[flyingdutchman]

@Squeller Music Playlist Manager creates playlists directly in Poweramp. Apart from lots of other functionality, It has a filename sorting option for a playlist

 

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.flyingdutchman.newplaylistmanager&hl=en-GB

 

[Squeller]

If it is really just filename, it wouldn't help.

Edited January 13, 2023 by Squeller

[flyingdutchman]

@Squeller the sort is on the full path

the text was confusing. I have amended it to be clearer

<string name="sortby_filename">File Path</string>

[andrewilley]

I agree that sort by path/filename would be much more useful than filename only. However would you wish the re-sort to be based on the current Android filesystem paths, or the original full paths found in the M3U file (which may well be different).

Andre

[flyingdutchman]

@andrewilley the sort uses data held in the _DATA column of the android media database which is the fully qualified path

[Squeller]

On 1/13/2023 at 12:39 PM, flyingdutchman said:

@Squeller Music Playlist Manager creates playlists directly in Poweramp. Apart from lots of other functionality, It has a filename sorting option for a playlist

 

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.flyingdutchman.newplaylistmanager&hl=en-GB

 

 

TY, Now I tried it. I didn't find how to sort. I managed to accidentally delete all entries of a playlist, because I tried the supposedly "O" and "D" buttons. Arrgh. Where is the sorting? 

[6b6561]

On the previous screen, tap the three dots on the Playlist before going into the list.

[Squeller]

Yup, thx