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

[jbinkley60]

I haven't tried it with albums yet but with TV series it works perfect, just like you described. It will put the first season first (episodes 1 to X) and then the second season (episodes 1 to X) etc... I'll try to give it a shot when I get some time and see if I am seeing the same thing.


Jeff

[jbinkley60]

I just tested a 3 disc audio set and it worked fine. You need to ensure that the disc and tracks are set properly in the properties tab for the audio tracks. Mine all still said disc 0 and I had to change them to disc 1, disc 2 and disc 3 but with a shift multi-select it was very quick. Once I fixed this it worked perfectly.


Jeff

[hsbrown2]

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No joy. They are all correctly set, unless I am missing something.

[hsbrown2]

Adding to this...

Maybe where wires are being crossed is in the fact that I am using the out-of-the-box active playlist that is at the "Album" level of the "Album Artist" playlist. At the album level, with the out-of-the-box playlists, I have one option to modify. You can only sort these by a single criteria. Default is "Track/Episode (Ascending)". I can select "Disc/Season (Ascending)", but then each track is just sorted alphabetically, but grouped by the disc number.

"Track/Episode (Ascending)" *should* always sort by "Disc/Season (Ascending)", then by "Track/Episode (Ascending)" by default. Or there should be some sort of option to select that does this. But I can't find it.

[hsbrown2]

A little bit more to add to this. I was able to construct a query that gives me what I want - although I can't say for sure if I'm using the correct tables that Mezzmo actually uses to build playlists. However what I can say is this query returns exactly what I want (for the particular album ID - in this case The Wall is 4192):

SELECT File,Disc,Track
FROM MGOFile
WHERE ID IN
(SELECT FileID
FROM MGOFileAlbumRelationship
WHERE ID LIKE '4192')
ORDER BY Disc,Track

The results return this (imagine it as a playlist). Sorry for the formatting, but you could paste it into a grid I suspect:

D:\Music\Pink Floyd\The Wall\Disc 1\In the Flesh!.flac 1 1
D:\Music\Pink Floyd\The Wall\Disc 1\The Thin Ice.flac 1 2
D:\Music\Pink Floyd\The Wall\Disc 1\Another Brick in the Wall, Part 1.flac 1 3
D:\Music\Pink Floyd\The Wall\Disc 1\The Happiest Days of our Lives.flac 1 4
D:\Music\Pink Floyd\The Wall\Disc 1\Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2.flac 1 5
D:\Music\Pink Floyd\The Wall\Disc 1\Mother.flac 1 6
D:\Music\Pink Floyd\The Wall\Disc 1\Goodbye Blue Sky.flac 1 7
D:\Music\Pink Floyd\The Wall\Disc 1\Empty Spaces.flac 1 8
D:\Music\Pink Floyd\The Wall\Disc 1\Young Lust.flac 1 9
D:\Music\Pink Floyd\The Wall\Disc 1\One of My Turns.flac 1 10
D:\Music\Pink Floyd\The Wall\Disc 1\Don't Leave Me Now.flac 1 11
D:\Music\Pink Floyd\The Wall\Disc 1\Another Brick in the Wall, Part 3.flac 1 12
D:\Music\Pink Floyd\The Wall\Disc 1\Goodbye Cruel World.flac 1 13
D:\Music\Pink Floyd\The Wall\Disc 2\Hey You.flac 2 1
D:\Music\Pink Floyd\The Wall\Disc 2\Is There Anybody Out There!.flac 2 2
D:\Music\Pink Floyd\The Wall\Disc 2\Nobody Home.flac 2 3
D:\Music\Pink Floyd\The Wall\Disc 2\Vera.flac 2 4
D:\Music\Pink Floyd\The Wall\Disc 2\Bring the Boys Back Home.flac 2 5
D:\Music\Pink Floyd\The Wall\Disc 2\Comfortably Numb.flac 2 6
D:\Music\Pink Floyd\The Wall\Disc 2\The Show Must Go On.flac 2 7
D:\Music\Pink Floyd\The Wall\Disc 2\In the Flesh.flac 2 8
D:\Music\Pink Floyd\The Wall\Disc 2\Run Like Hell.flac 2 9
D:\Music\Pink Floyd\The Wall\Disc 2\Waiting For the Worms.flac 2 10
D:\Music\Pink Floyd\The Wall\Disc 2\Stop.flac 2 11
D:\Music\Pink Floyd\The Wall\Disc 2\The Trial.flac 2 12
D:\Music\Pink Floyd\The Wall\Disc 2\Outside the Wall.flac 2 13

[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.