[mythtv-users] any way to sort videos by alternate value

[Ronald Frazier]

On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 1:18 PM, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com> wrote:
> On 5/6/2012 09:44, Ronald Frazier wrote:
>>
>> I was wondering if there was any way to sort videos by some value
>> other than the title. I was thinking this would be useful for a few
>> circumstances. Normally, when movies are titled with numbers (1, 2, 3,
>> or part 1, part 2, part 3) they will sort just fine. However, once you
>> get to 10 parts, they will start sorting wrong (1, 10, 2, 3). You can
>> hack around this by using 2 digit numbers (01, 02 ... 10) but that's
>> ugly IMHO. Furthermore, if the movie uses names instead of numbers
>> (such as Lord of the Rings), the parts don't sort into the proper
>> order at all.
>
>
> Don't episode numbers take care of this?

I don't think so, but I may be wrong. If I've got all my DVD rips in a
folder, I want to ensure that all 3 Lord of the Rings come after
Lethal Weapon 4, and before Lost Boys, and that they appear in correct
order. How exactly would I let myth know that "Lord of the Rings - The
Return of the King" and "Lord of the Rings - The Two Towers" are the
same show despite the different names? If there were a way to do that,
then I suppose I could use the episode number to ensure proper order
(assuming that's taken into account by the sorting algorithm).

I took a stab at trying it right now, and it does not work. I set them
all to season 1, episodes 1, 2, and 3. I edited the name so the title
only contained "Lord of the Rings", and put the "The Return of the
King" part as a subtitle. Did that for all 3 movies, and all it did
was put the ugly 1x01 (which I don't really want for my movies) into
the title, but it still showed them in incorrect order.


-- 
Ron Frazier