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Author Topic: Preserving smartlist order when joining smartlists  (Read 878 times)

mark_h

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Preserving smartlist order when joining smartlists
« on: November 14, 2005, 12:07:37 pm »

When including smartlists into a new super-smartlist, why does MC ignore the sort order of the sub-smartlists?

I have two smartlists, each with their own sort order and I want to combine (concatenate) them into one smartlist, but preserve the sort order of each smartlist.  Unfortunately MC jumbles both lists together.

Any way to achieve this?

Thanks,

Mark
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Re: Preserving smartlist order when joining smartlists
« Reply #1 on: November 14, 2005, 11:23:56 pm »

This has to do with how the internals work.  Smartlists run file-by-file instead of gathering all the files from each token and merging them at the end.  This helps performance and makes super-smartlists that include the same file in each sub-smartlist more logical.

I wonder if there's an end around to accomplish the same thing, like building a temporary playlist (that supports order and duplicates) or similar?
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Re: Preserving smartlist order when joining smartlists
« Reply #2 on: November 15, 2005, 02:47:48 am »

Hi Matt,

Are you suggesting manually creating such a list?  I can see no way to automate this approach?

Cheers,

Mark
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