GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 745646
Improve sorting of "songs" view
Last modified: 2015-03-05 10:08:07 UTC
Elements in the "songs" view are sorted by time of insertion in the tracker database, I find this sorting inconvenient for 2 reasons: - A disc is added "at once" most usually, but the insertion order of the songs can differ from the actual song order, so the order of songs within a disc appears somewhat random - On shuffle (and large lists maybe), the current treeview position leaves you clueless about where the other albums/songs of this band are located, they can be actually scattered above and below. I'd propose to make the ordering more consistent here, I'm attaching a patch to make it based on artist/album/disc no./song no.
Created attachment 298588 [details] [review] query: Order songs query by artist/album/disc no/track no. This ordering seems more intuitive than the insertion time as known by tracker. Songs are more locatable in large lists, and it makes songs actually played in order with shuffle off.
Agreed, existing sorting doesn't make much sense after we have Recently Added smart playlist. Pushed as https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-music/commit/?id=3ddbe3f