Sorting

[mfc]

As it is now, when Winamp sorts it sorts by the visible title as shown in the playlist. This is a very nice feature as you can change the apperance of the titles.
There is just one thing that could be used to improve the functionality of this sorting.

I have the setting set that the title of my mp3's include the album title and track number. You think then that it would be easy to sort the entire list after "Artist - Album - Track - Song name". This is what I want to achieve. But there is a small iritation when using the ordinary sorting, track number 11 is put before track number 2!

Winamp 3 took a small step towards what I wanted to achieve by adding "Sort by Track". Unfortunately this didn't care about the artists and album names.

So what I'm suggesting is that a new sort should be available as an option, a sort that uses a newer comparing algorithm, similar to the way Windows XP sorts files. Track number 2 should be promoted before track number 11. So instead of comparing char to char the sort should be comparing numbers inside the string also.

I will follow this post with a small comparing algorithm which does what I just asked for. (Probably it will need to be optimized and so on, but it's a small step ahead)

[DJ Egg]

Prefs - Titles

Replace your tracknumber string with this one:

[ $num(%tracknumber%,2) - ]

Tracknumbers will then be listed as 01, 02, 03 . . . 10, 11, 12

[%artist% - ][ %album% - ][ $num(%tracknumber%,2) - ] $if2(%title%,$filepart(%filename%))

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Read metadata when files are loaded into Winamp ?

[mfc]

Ohh!
That's great, I didn't know that the titles supported that kind of padding. I see it now though in the help file, but it's kinda hard reading that help now that I think of it, perhaps this help could be made easier to read then