Squeller Posted January 13, 2023 Share Posted January 13, 2023 (edited) 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyingdutchman Posted January 13, 2023 Share Posted January 13, 2023 @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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squeller Posted January 13, 2023 Author Share Posted January 13, 2023 (edited) If it is really just filename, it wouldn't help. Edited January 13, 2023 by Squeller Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyingdutchman Posted January 13, 2023 Share Posted January 13, 2023 @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> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrewilley Posted January 13, 2023 Share Posted January 13, 2023 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyingdutchman Posted January 13, 2023 Share Posted January 13, 2023 @andrewilley the sort uses data held in the _DATA column of the android media database which is the fully qualified path Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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