ModelCitizen;147166 Wrote: > Why is that the *correct* way? The bug report does not make that clear. > What advantages does performing sorting in the new way help SlimServer? > For me and all Windows users it would be better if we got expected > behaviour (i.e. the same as Windows) if there are no obvious stated > advantages with the new implementation.
That's a really good question. Removing the punctuation and special characters probably makes _searching_ a bit more user-friendly, but I've never fully understood why these characters were also removed for _sorting_ purposes. In the database there are three distinct strings stored for all album and track titles, genres, and artist names - an unaltered string, used only for display purposes, a sort string, and a search string. From what I can tell, the sort and search strings are identical in all cases - each has been stripped of most punctuation characters and has been capitalized. Using ALBUMSORT, TITLESORT, NAMESORT tags can be quite powerful, and for things like artist names, it's the ideal way to do things like forcing a lastname/firstname ordering. But when those tags are not present, I could certainly understand using something more closely resembling the original, perhaps with punctuation not removed. -- JJZolx Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28778 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
