Sirion Posted March 31, 2013 Share Posted March 31, 2013 I know this works quite well when in library and viewing albums from an artist they get sorted by year. However in folder view they are sorted alphabetical and cannot be resorted. I tried the by year sort but it only affects the files in the folder not the folder itself, sorting songs by track number works great but sorting folders is what I miss.Sure I could use the library view, but as it doesn't support album artist it is useless to me and so I have to use the structure of folders.By the way, my folder structure looks like:MusicAlbumartist ( are sorted alphabetical and should stay so)albums ( are sorted alphabetical and want them to be sorted by year)songs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrewilley Posted March 31, 2013 Share Posted March 31, 2013 Erm, given that folders don't have ID3 tags, just names, how are you planning to sort them by year? (unless you put the year as the first part of the folder name, which is what I do with a couple of artists, but then you're still sorting by folder name). Folders do have createdates, but that's nothing to do with the songs in them, it's just a system date.Andre Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sirion Posted April 1, 2013 Author Share Posted April 1, 2013 But what about using the ID3 tags of the songs inside the folders to sort them by year? Or something like a text file which is placed inside the folder (like the AlbumArt.jpg) and gets recognised by Poweramp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrewilley Posted April 1, 2013 Share Posted April 1, 2013 The Folder sorting order does not care what's inside the folder, that's for the 'file' sorting level to use. Why not just do what I do and put the year at the beginning of the folder name? Sorted (if you'll excuse the pun). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sirion Posted April 1, 2013 Author Share Posted April 1, 2013 Because it would cut off my synchronisation settings in my home network and it doesn't look elegant (sorry, no better word). It shouldn't be a great issue to have a detection of a special file (as mentioned it works with AlbumArt.jpg so why not with another file?) to acquire a special sorting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrewilley Posted April 1, 2013 Share Posted April 1, 2013 I guess you need to decide whether Folder sorting is really what you really want then, as folders are Android filesystem items, not music data, so they aren't tagged with music tags like MP3 files are. If you want to sort by music tags, the Library option might be better suited for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sirion Posted April 3, 2013 Author Share Posted April 3, 2013 It would be if it supported Album artist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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