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Folder sort on left pane ... 4.7b2

PostPosted: Sun Aug 05, 2012 4:10 pm
by osnet
Hi guys ...
a lil question ...

my data is stored accurately based upon the artist / group / band names and sorted alphabetically
each letter has its own directory, followed by the dir of the band, followed by the dir of the album / single name

in SS i put these folders to scan
A /var/media/A
B /var/media/B
C /var/media/C

etc ....

but i have a lot of stuff which i cannot sort under alphabetically order ....

so i just added somthing like

Live Sets /var/media/Sets
or even
Filme /var/media/movies
Serien /var/media/serien

unfortunately all the content of folders that where listed explizit at the bottomof the A - Z list are now mixed up and thrown to the other artists ....
is there a way to get the old sort function back ?

thx in advance

Re: Folder sort on left pane ... 4.7b2

PostPosted: Sun Aug 05, 2012 8:54 pm
by osnet
mmh meanwhile i discovered, that SS is sorting some stuff based upon ID3 tags .... gnarf thats bullshit ... i dont have time and motivation to correct all ID3 tags of all 2 TB files

Re: Folder sort on left pane ... 4.7b2

PostPosted: Sun Aug 05, 2012 9:11 pm
by BKKKPewsey
One thing you could do, as those files are in their own folders, is to use shortcuts.
I do that for my compilation albums which are in a various artists folder.

If you do not have ID tags correct I suggest you go back to 4.6 which uses the directory structure

:mrgreen:

Re: Folder sort on left pane ... 4.7b2

PostPosted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 4:33 am
by osnet
aaa thanks mate ... downgrading to 4.5 did also fix the problem with my podcasts ... now everything works fine again ...

Re: Folder sort on left pane ... 4.7b2

PostPosted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 7:32 pm
by denmalley
For my miscellaneous sets I use folder names that are preceded with an underscore ( _ ). SS defaults to sort these to the bottom of the list but you can put them at the top by editing Settings> genera> Index. Just put _ at the front of the list.