Artist Sorting Differs Between Plex Web UI and Plexamp

[SE2Dev]

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:

[OttoKerner]

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

[beckfield]

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

[OttoKerner]

It’s called “natural sort”, and on my server, Plex Web is doing it in precisely the same way as Plexamp:

[beckfield]

Interesting. I don’t have any numerically-named artists, but I have a few albums, and Plex Web shows natural sorting for them:

[OttoKerner]

That’s the expected way. Hence why I was asking about the used agent.

[SE2Dev]

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:

[OttoKerner]

Then inspect the Sort Title of these artists.

Which web browser is used, on which operating system?

[SE2Dev]

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)

[OttoKerner]

Do you have any browser add-ins activated?

[SE2Dev]

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).

[SE2Dev]

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.