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[ZombieBobie]

Hi,

I was just wondering if there's a way to make the sorting sort numbers to the bottom of the lists (filters, playlist, etc).

In example, currently it does:
10cc
A..
Z..


Whereas I would prefer if it did:
A..
Z..
10cc


Might seem like a small thing, but I've used 9999 as a "Unsorted" tag and now it shows up at the top which is a bit unfortunate.

If anyone know if its possible to modify the sorting algorithm, it would be appreciated

[MrC]

See if this idea is close enough.

Create yourself an expression column in a panes view, using the following as the first column:

formatrange(left([artist],1),100,0)

Use Descending as the sort order.

Use Artist as the second column, and perhaps Album and Name as the third and fourth columns.

This will group artists that start with A-Z, followed by artists whose first letters are numeric next, followed by anything else last (eg. artists w/punctuation marks as their first letter).

[ZombieBobie]

Thanks for the reply I appreciate it!

I did as you suggested and I believe I got that working (at least it looks like your attached picture). And I suppose its somewhat of a workaround, however, it would have been preferable if it was possible to instead of having to select either A-Z or 0-99 first, to just have the Artists sorted in that way. Any ideas?

[MrC]

I don't know that there are any other sort mechanisms.

Sorting seems to be limited to ascending or descending ASCII order (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII#ASCII_printable_characters if you are not familiar with this order).  This natural order makes it very simple and fast.