[mythtv-commits] Ticket #2592: Sorting problem in MythMusic

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#2592: Sorting problem in MythMusic
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 Reporter:  anonymous  |        Owner:  paulh
     Type:  defect     |       Status:  new  
 Priority:  major      |    Milestone:  0.21 
Component:  mythmusic  |      Version:  0.20 
 Severity:  medium     |   Resolution:       
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Changes (by paulh):

  * owner:  ijr => paulh


Comment:

 I think the best solution, which has already been mentioned, is to make
 sure your files are properly tagged.

 The second solution is to rename your files to a format where MythMusic
 can get the proper track numbers from the filename. So you would use
 something like
 {{{
 artist_name/album_name/01-track_name
 }}}

 You must use '-' as the separator here otherwise it wont work and you need
 to change the 'Filename Format' setting to something like
 'ARTIST/ALBUM/TRACK_TITLE' If anyone cares enough about this and wants to
 improve the filename parsing, maybe to make extracting the track number a
 little smarter, take a look at MetatIO::readFromFilename() in metaio.cpp.


 For people who can't or don't wont to rename there files I'm just about to
 commit something that at least sorts the tracks by the track title if it
 can't do it using the track numbers. It isn't perfect for example if you
 have tracks named something like 1-Track1 2-Track2 ... 10-Track10 then
 they will be displayed as 1-Track1 10-Track10 2-Track2, that is they are
 sorted alphabetically not numerically but it is better than what we have
 now.

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