How to make Sort Title Work

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Hello!

I was wondering if someone can help me better understand how Sort Title works.

I recently have started an epic movie watching experiement with my wife dubbed the PLEXtravaganza

I have made an effort to group movie series together for a cohesive story even if they are not exact alphabetical order using the Sort Title option.

I have had no problems with this until I got to Marvel movies. Since there are over 10 movies, it seems to break.

As an example I tried to order these three movies as Marvel 1, Marvel 2 and Marvel 11 expecting them to sort into numerical order.

Alas, they do not. Does anyone have an idea how to get this to work.

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@anthonysnyder said:
As an example I tried to order these three movies as Marvel 1, Marvel 2 and Marvel 11 expecting them to sort into numerical order.

use a leading 0 for the 1-digit numbers
Marvel 01 etc

or simply use release years instead of consecutive numbers

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You could possibly have an issue with embedded metadata if you’re using MP4s
But more than likely it’s due to not padding the single digits with zeroes

As in Marvel 01, Marvel 02, ...

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Darnit… Just a bit too slow :slight_smile:

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Well…I feel dumb. That never would have occurred to me.

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Don’t feel bad. It just proves you’re not a full blown geek. :smile: Those of us that are know that zero is a number and comes first and computers are dumb - they don’t interpret meaning, just bits and bytes. When you’re using a computer to sort, the computer compares character-to-character, i.e. the first characters to each other, then the second, etc. and so on until a numerical value is totaled and then sorts them accordingly. A programmer might - if it was expected to encounter numbers in a sort list - program a function to accommodate grouped numerical digits, but this would be unusual and a very specific case to be worth that much work.