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Am I losing the plot here, or is there no way to create (and sort) a numbered playlist or collection within emby ?

I'm trying to create a numbered list - lets say it's the IMDB Top 250 Films.    I want the 'number/order' to show.

I can add them all that's not the issue - but as there is no way to sort on lets say a tag, or othered numbered metadata - all I have is the order they were created in the playlist ?  (name, date etc are all useless as this is a number ordered list).

Any ideas ?

GrimReaper
Posted
2 minutes ago, rbjtech said:

Any ideas ?

FR? 

Happy2Play
Posted

No, but at the same time is that not just a SortTitle?  But that is global and if you do not group into collections it mess with default sorting.

But would think the database would have to be expanded to accommodate this.

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GrimReaper
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SmartPlaylists plugin allows for various sorting methods during creation, don't know is it retained during subsequent content updates?

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1 minute ago, GrimReaper said:

FR? 

wow really, I thought I was missing something obvious ?!

Sort by 'Tag' in the collection/playlist would have been an option (if I added an IMDB 'rank' Tag) - but even that option doesn't exist.. 

ok thanks - hopefully this sort of basic functionality will be included in the long overdue Playlist revamp .. 😉

Posted
1 minute ago, GrimReaper said:

SmartPlaylists plugin allows for various sorting methods during creation, don't know is it retained during subsequent content updates?

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ah yes - is sort by 'Tag' there .. ?

(sorry, I don't have that Plugin installed atm)..

 

 

GrimReaper
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3 minutes ago, rbjtech said:

wow really, I thought I was missing something obvious ?!

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2 minutes ago, rbjtech said:

ah yes - is sort by 'Tag' there .. ?

Unfortunately not that I see.

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Posted

ok thanks for looking.

Time for a script I think - I guess if I create the .m3u playlist file dynamically from a imdb id list - then I think it will be updated on an emby refresh.

It won't display order numbers, but at least it will be in the right order ...

(why is nothing ever easy .. 🤣)

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GrimReaper
Posted

You could create separate strm library for those items only and then SmartPlaylists sort by SortName them?

Posted
2 minutes ago, GrimReaper said:

You could create separate strm library for those items only and then SmartPlaylists sort by SortName them?

That might work - thanks :)

All just looking at the SmartPlaylist source in VS - with a view to adding Tag as a sort item but of course you can have multiple tag's, so that's probably why it was never added as it'll get complex real quick .. 

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Posted

@Luke @ebr

Can you kindly advise what Metadata needs to be completed for an Item (a number..) to appear in the 'Number' column in the new table view ?

thanks.

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28 minutes ago, rbjtech said:

@Luke @ebr

Can you kindly advise what Metadata needs to be completed for an Item (a number..) to appear in the 'Number' column in the new table view ?

thanks.

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The embedded track number, or for episode, the episode number. Non-episodic videos will generally not have that.

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