Sort Playlist by Album Year

[Orange]

I would really like to see the option of sorting the playlist by ARTIST then DATE OF ALBUM RELEASE then ALBUM TITLE. I'm a completist and I enjoy having things in the order produced by the artists themselves.

Don't get me wrong though, I'm very happy with the current state of QCD. Thanks a million, Paul! I spread the QCD gospel daily, and everyone loves it.

[plover]

I always name the album folders with the year at the beginning, which helps with this for some purposes.


"...twenty-four forty-five sixty-ten sixt'-seven..." ;)

[Hanzo]

If it isn't much trouble, can it be possible to add a sort option to sort files by creation date?

[Orange]

"...twenty-four forty-five sixty-ten sixt'-seven..."Yeah, that's right, Plover! :)

I name my folder with the date also, but if I ever need to use the Sort button within QCD those dates lose meaning. I'm unbelievably anal with my filenames and tags. I have nearly 5,000 mp3's and everyone of them follow the same naming convention:

Artist - Year - Album \ Album - # Title - Artist .mp3

This would have been an insanely difficult task without QCD and it's Tagging-Filenaming powers! All hail it!

[drewkeller]

i have found the Flexible Renamer quite handy for such things, also

http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA014830/english/FlexRena/

[Hanzo]

i have found the Flexible Renamer quite handy for such things, also

http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA014830/english/FlexRena/
Ever tried Lupas Rename?

[drewkeller]

Ever tried Lupas Rename?
no, never ran across it before, but it looks pretty handy too. i'll try it out next time i have a renaming project

[krazyd]

For music organizational type stuff, nothing I've found come close to The GodFather (http://users.otenet.gr/~jtcliper/tgf/) . :)

[drewkeller]

that is really cool
now i gotta figure out how to get it to apply the changes to my playlists. the godfather forum doesn't seem to be working.

[krazyd]

that is really cool
now i gotta figure out how to get it to apply the changes to my playlists. the godfather forum doesn't seem to be working.
What's your problem?

[drewkeller]

if i change the files names of my media files, my playlists will have invalid file references; they will point to the old filename, not the new one.

[brian]

For music organizational type stuff, nothing I've found come close to The GodFather (http://users.otenet.gr/~jtcliper/tgf/) . :)
krazyd - excellent recommendation, thanks very much indeed! I'd never done anything with my 1,500 file tags because I knew they must be a complete pig's ear; but an hour or two with The GodFather and now they're all in good order! One immediate benefit is that when I go to randomise a playlist, it really gets randomised instead of only partly so, as it did before (I assume the QCD randomiser operates on tags).