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Roman numeral sorting #25

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
This is the first half of the "Smart Sorting" issue from here:

http://code.google.com/p/videobrowser/issues/detail?id=23&can=7

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I noticed that the sorting was incorrect when movies which used roman
numerals were displayed in videobrowser. In my case, videobrowser sorted
the following movies in this manner:
Star Trek I
Star Trek II
Star Trek III
Star Trek IV
Star Trek IX ***
Star Trek V
Star Trek VI
Star Trek VII
It would seem that the program does not recognize the roman numeral in the
filename and treats it as letters, thus making IX (hindu-arabic #9) come
before V (#5). It would be nice if the program was made aware of this
particular nuance and correctly sort my videos.
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This is a very tough issue and may not be fixable though normal sorting 
methods. The solution may lie in metadata providers. If one or more offer 
alternative, sortable title-names, we could update the sorting algorithm 
to use the alternative title.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by ogre@chaocracy.net on 8 Oct 2008 at 1:48

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
One solution I can propose is the use of the <SortTitle> field in mymovies.xml. 
While
Video Browser displays the actual folder names, it can also make use of that 
field in
order to determine proper sorting order.

Original comment by TheCorpu...@gmail.com on 8 Oct 2008 at 10:01