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Toxikator:
Followup: it didn't work.

Is there some way to force tagnavi to sort by a certain value? It seems to be sorting by genre first, though I just want to use genre as the filter.

roolku:

--- Quote from: Toxikator on April 08, 2007, 09:07:53 AM ---Is there some way to force tagnavi to sort by a certain value?

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Yes, using a format string as Bascule suggested. However that should not be neccessary, as alphabetical by title is the default for no format string.


--- Quote from: Toxikator on April 08, 2007, 09:07:53 AM ---It seems to be sorting by genre first, though I just want to use genre as the filter.

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I can't duplicate that behaviour. I tried 3 testfiles with different genres (A,B,C):

title1 C
title2 B
title3 A

and used the following line in my tagnavi:

"music" -> title ? genre != "B"

The list shows

title1
title3

as expected. I have also tried to exclude a genre on my "proper" database

"music" -> title ? genre != "Dance"

and it worked as expected. There seems to be something unusual about you system, but I have no idea what.

Toxikator:
what player/build are you using?

Also, I'm beginning to suspect that genre is not the primary sorting characteristic.
The tracks seem to be sorted in reverse alphabetical order by directory (starting with the alphabetically last file in any directory) and the directories are sorted by date added (Tool is first b/c it was the first album I physically transferred to my iPod, ending with the most recent albums added).

I tried changing the "sort by" setting to newest date, date, and back to alphabetical, and each time nothing changed in that or any other folder  ???

Toxikator:
Figured it out! It was that the "max files in dir browser" parameter was set too low. It was causing the tracks to wrap around in a weird way; I'd get to the bottom and just see "y" tracks (and I knew there were Zs), and as I scrolled around the visible tracks changed, and sometimes tracks linked to wrong tracks; so I set the value higher and bam! works perfectly.

sweet! No idea why that happened, though.

lav:
Oh, wow, i was actually having a similar problem. I have all my tagnavi options set to show 'A to Z'-style lists (for tracks, albums, and artists), and at the top of those lists i have added an option called 'all tracks' which, naturally, shows all the tracks. When viewing tracks by letter (e.g., all tracks starting with A) everything was sorted perfectly fine. When i went to the 'all tracks' option, though, it had just completely random stuff. No order i could see.

Increasing 'max files in dir browser' fixed it, though. I guess now that i think of it that makes sense, but the name of the option ('dir browser'?) certainly threw me off until i read this thread.

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