Are there any plans for human readable sort in any of the clients? I'm currently aware that Plex/Web does not sort in human readable (natural) style. To clarify for the non-techs, my movie section (by default) would be sorted in ASCII order and look something like this:
10 Rules for Sleeping Around
12 Angry Men
13
13 Assassins
1408
2 Fast 2 Furious
21
21 & Over
28 Days Later
28 Weeks Later
3 Ninjas
30 Days of Night
300
etc....
As opposed to human readable/natural sort which would produce:
I find it annoying too but the way around it is to use letters or numbers at the front of the sort order (when you manually edit the metadata). Either use A,B,C or 1A,2B,1B or just 1 - 9, etc. so that you can choose the sort order and then lock the sort order field.
I do the same thing with movies in a collection, and sort them according to the order of release date rather than title (e.g., Alien - Alien 1, Aliens = Alien 2, etc.)
I think this will be codeable with a Little regex magic (something like /\d+\s/) for catching the number and automatically create a sorting name afterwards.
It would be nice to see this done. Emby clients do it…
Edit: correction: the Emby Web client does it; the Windows 8/10 client doesn’t. I suspect that’s because the server doesn’t automatically set a sort order, and then it’s down to clients to manage human-readable sort orders.
Would love to see this too. This should be considered a bug, not even a feature request. In no world should a media manager put the number 10 before 2.
