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Quick question about sorting #104

Closed vile80r closed 4 years ago

vile80r commented 4 years ago

The queue and Play From Here function are working flawlessly. Great job.

I have a question because I don't think it's an issue issue. It's always been this way but it'd be a nice feature.

I've seen this on some other Addons as well but never really understood why. It is the sort feature. It is always, by default, sorted by date with no other options to sort by name, length, rating, etc.

So, when I search for something and it propagates a return of videos is I hit the left arrow or left direction on either my gamepad or Yatse app to open the menu (it slides out from the left on my current build) I can change the list around to big list, poster layout, etc. Underneath is the "sort by" option that just says Date in gray and cannot be changed to something like name or length. Z

Is this something I can fix somehow or is it addon specific?

Thanks

T

vile80r commented 4 years ago

This may not even be an issue with the addon but more of a missing feature which means I've posted it in the wrong area and I apologize.

T

12asdfg12 commented 4 years ago

This "sort by" option from kodi requires informations which are not available. Usually we can extract from websites only the name, video page url and an image. If there is a possibility on the website to change the order, this can be implemented in the addon (like the 'Current sort' option in WatchXXXFree) but requires some extra work.

jdoedev123 commented 4 years ago

Just a side note. I experimented with adding different sorts for search results, but the results were inconsistent. Search results sorted by date for example did not always return the correct search result at the top. The feature was not added.

dobbelina commented 4 years ago

As 12asdfg12 pointed out, this program scrapes from different websites. And many of those do not provide the needed data to do any sorting. Therefore making it impossible to use the sort feature in the side panel, as that would only work if all the websites scraped, provided the same data. The sort feature in the side panel, is mostly intended for local files on your hard drive. Any sort feature that can be implemented, has to be done on a "site by site basis", as a clickable link. A good example is the "Lists" link in the newly added Eporner.