justwondering 10 Posted July 21, 2018 Share Posted July 21, 2018 Small and nitpicky thing: It would be nice if the sorting algorithm could recognize roman numerals and sort them numerically. For example, currently "Men in Black 3" comes before "Men in Black II". No big deal but it would be nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkassassin07 418 Posted July 21, 2018 Share Posted July 21, 2018 +1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy2Play 8239 Posted July 21, 2018 Share Posted July 21, 2018 What is Display order: set to on the Collection metadata? Mine is set to Release date instead of Sort name. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justwondering 10 Posted July 21, 2018 Author Share Posted July 21, 2018 (edited) When I look at them inside the Collection they're in the correct order. I'm not sure what it's set to because I don't see an option to change display order in the collection. Edited July 22, 2018 by justwondering Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arrbee99 1551 Posted July 21, 2018 Share Posted July 21, 2018 Would it help putting something in the Sort Title... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy2Play 8239 Posted July 21, 2018 Share Posted July 21, 2018 I was referring to Collection view and you say that is correct. You appear to talking about Item view and as you posted it is by Name so they are sorting correctly. As "3" is numeric and "II" alphabetic. You must not use "Group movies into collections". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justwondering 10 Posted July 21, 2018 Author Share Posted July 21, 2018 @@arrbee99 I didn't know about the sort title field, thank you for that. @@Happy2Play When movies are grouped into collections and "Group movies into collections" is turned on, everything looks fine. This is only an issue for movies that have not been manually added to a collection, or when "Group movies into collections" is not turned on. There are lots of ways to avoid this small issue by manually modifying library data; I'm just saying it would be nice if the alphabetic sorting algorithm understood it automatically. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deathsquirrel 741 Posted July 22, 2018 Share Posted July 22, 2018 When group movies into collections is enabled the default sort order is release date. That's why it clears it up. I get the request but I expect it to cause fits for various users, probably non-English users, if implemented. Group into collections and sort order address it for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justwondering 10 Posted July 22, 2018 Author Share Posted July 22, 2018 As far as I can tell, "group movies into collections" does not apply when using a filter. So if you want to view a list of unwatched movies like I do, the options are to sort by name (with the problem I described) or by release date, where sequels are no longer grouped together. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solution ebr 14902 Posted July 22, 2018 Solution Share Posted July 22, 2018 Hi. The simple solution here for now is to use the sort title as it will make them sort however you wish. The sorting in play is not something we've written so it isn't easily modified. There also would be a performance impact all the time for something that is very rare. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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