Server Version#: 1.31.2.6810
Player Version#: Web 4.103.2
Plexamp Version#: 4.6.3
I recently noticed that when sorting artists alphabetically the order differs between Plexamp and the Web UI.
Example:
Inspect the Sort Title of these artists. I can’t recreate this sort order in Plex Web.
Are you perhaps using an old/deprecated metadata agent for your music library?
The current one is called “Plex Music” and should appear on the Advanced tab when you Edit your library
It looks like Plex Web is doing alphabetical sort, which sorts numbers by individual digits, so you get:
1
10
11
1000
2
20
and PlexAmp is doing alphanumeric, so it sees complete numbers instead of individual digits:
1
2
10
11
20
1000
It’s called “natural sort”, and on my server, Plex Web is doing it in precisely the same way as Plexamp:
Interesting. I don’t have any numerically-named artists, but I have a few albums, and Plex Web shows natural sorting for them:
That’s the expected way. Hence why I was asking about the used agent.
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The current agent is “Plex Music” and has been since it was released.
For what it’s worth, (at a glance) I seem to get the same sorting order on the WebUI and Plexamp when sorting albums or tracks by title:
Then inspect the Sort Title of these artists.
Which web browser is used, on which operating system?
The “Sort Title” for these artists match the displayed text exactly.
The browser is Chrome: Version 111.0.5563.110 (Official Build) (64-bit)
on Debian GNU/Linux (Bookworm)
Do you have any browser add-ins activated?
I do, but nothing that would affect sorting in JavaScript. For what it’s worth, I get the same sorting order as Chrome on Firefox 102.9.0esr (64-bit).
For what it’s worth, this issue does still persist in 1.32.0.6918.
I would argue that the Plexamp sorting order is the desirable one.
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