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Title: Grouping by Folder AND sorting by filename
Post by: Ezhaac on June 07, 2021, 07:07:02 PM

Hello there =)

I feel like I'm gonna ask something rather basic but I've looked through the options, some forum posts as well as the wiki on grouping/sorting and I couldn't find what I'm looking for ^^

I'm not using tags or metadata for my music and I'd like to reproduce how VLC is sorting the files when I drag and drop folder into the playlist.
I'd like to sort them by folder AND within each folder: by file name.

Let's say I have these 2 albums from Ghinzu:

(https://i.imgur.com/Ox1Y53i.png)

If I drag and drop the "Ghinzu" folder in VLC, it will appear like that: one album after another, sorted by filename in each folder.

(https://imgur.com/vcWHSrr.png)

In MusicBee, so far, I managed to group them by folder:

(https://imgur.com/srgaVGP.png)

Or to sort them by filename:

(https://imgur.com/YUAe7g2.png)

But as you can see, none of these are doing the job.
Basically, when I group by folder, I can't get control over how it's sorted within these folders.

Am I missing something super obvious? xD
Thanks!

Title: Re: Grouping by Folder AND sorting by filename
Post by: frankz on June 07, 2021, 07:17:38 PM

This thread (https://getmusicbee.com/forum/index.php?topic=34959.0) may be helpful.

Title: Re: Grouping by Folder AND sorting by filename
Post by: Ezhaac on June 07, 2021, 08:04:34 PM

Yeah, that answer seems on point.

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I feel like "MB IS NOT A FOLDER PLAYER" should be a sub-title to the forum at this point.  If you don't want to tag your files properly, then it will be A LOT of work to make MB show your files the way you want it to.  Seriously, if you don't want to maintain a library, MB is NOT THE RIGHT TOOL FOR WHAT YOU WANT TO DO.