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kartik-venugopal / aural-player

An audio player for macOS, inspired by Winamp.
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Sorting when adding folders to playlist not alphanumerical #29

Closed shoopdawoop closed 3 years ago

shoopdawoop commented 3 years ago

When adding folders to the playlist on macOS the playlist is not sorted by filename or ID-tag track number, which I would have expected.

Feature or missing feature? ;D

kartik-venugopal commented 3 years ago

Hi, thanks for your question.

Are you referring to 1 - The entire playlist not being sorted when adding folders / tracks ? OR 2 - The new folders / tracks not being added in alphanumeric order ?

Please clarify.

By design, when you add new folders / tracks, only the new items will be added in an alphanumeric order (from what I remember). That is ... if you're adding 10 new tracks, those 10 tracks will appear in the playlist in alphanumeric order. But it won't sort the entire playlist. Of course, if you want to sort the entire playlist, there is a sort option (see button with up down arrow icon).

In other words, even though you can sort the playlist whenever you want, the playlist won't remain sorted. This is by design, because users are allowed to re-order tracks at will. So, in order for the playlist to remain sorted, you would have to prevent the user from reordering tracks manually, which would not be a good user experience.

One thing that maybe can be done is adding a new option to "Sort entire playlist when new tracks are added", but I don't know how useful that would be. Is this what you're requesting ? If so, I would have to think about how to do this.

Please clarify. Thanks.

shoopdawoop commented 3 years ago

2 - The new folders / tracks not being added in alphanumeric order ?

I am referring to this only.

When I add multiple files to the playlist (empty or not) by selecting them in the Finder and dropping them on the playlist, the files do get added in alphanumerical order.

But when I drag and drop a folder that contains the files, the sort order of these files is not alphanumerical.

So far I have only tested this on macOS 10.13.6 btw.

kartik-venugopal commented 3 years ago

Ok, I was able to reproduce the issue on my system, and I have developed a fix for it.

I will release the fix (along with a new feature) soon in version 3.2.0. You can upgrade to 3.2.0 when it comes out and try it out to see that it has been fixed.

Thank you for reporting this issue ! Cheers. mC

kartik-venugopal commented 3 years ago

The fix has been released in version 3.2.0. This issue is now closed.