Sorting by disc when sorting by track to list tracks on each disc in order

[jbinkley60]

I played with this a bit more and in a folder with all of the discs when I sort by track / episode it sorts like you want, by disc and then by episode. With a Smart playlist where I specify Album Artist contains the artist I want, I had to sort by disc and then it would put everything the way you want, by disc and then by episode. Active playlists get slightly different because of the other criteria used to select and group the playlist contents. Peter may have to weigh in here or you might try sorting by disc. I am not aware of an option for nested sorting like by artist and then by disc for active playlists.


Jeff

[hsbrown2]

I can't get it to work in any way I try. I tried everything that seemed logical to me, and like I said, I'm using the out of the box playlists for the "Album Artist" category, I could recreate it, but it doesn't seem to work in any way I can figure it out.

[jbinkley60]

Peter will probably need to look at this. To recreate your SQL query above you can create a new Smart Playlist and select the file path contains "Pink Floyd\The Wall" and then sort by disc. You might try this to see if it works and matches your SQL query. This will at least tell us that it is working the same as I am seeing it. I believe the stock playlists you are using are all active playlists.


Jeff

[Peter]

I tried in the artist playlist changing the track number of a file to 1 and disc to 2 so that I had two tracks with track 1 and a disc 1 and disc 2 and it did not order them correctly so I will need to check this.

[hsbrown2]

Any updates on this? Thank you

[Peter]

You can get files to list in disc then track order by adding the keyword Disc / Season to the active playlist then uncheck the box in options for only listing files at the lowest level. This will then list the files in disc then track order when viewing them at the artist level of the playlist.