I’m trying to sort some movies by using the Sort Title and it appears that Plex screwed up on this. For example:
Hopalong Cassidy 1, Hopalong Cassidy 2
When I get to #10 and so forth, Plex is seeing the “1” and resorting that to the beginning. It appears Plex is looking at each character and sorting based on that and not sequentially.
Any help/fix for this??? VERY frustrating!!
Plex sorts by standard ASCII sorting and “10” comes before “2” by that standard. The fix is also quite simple instead of using 1, 2, 3 etc use 01, 02, 03. To get correct sorting you need to leading pad everything to the same length.
I actually use dates most of the time and if more than one movie I want grouped were released in the same year I append a two digit month. That is my sort fields look like this “MovieName yyyy mm” with “mm” being optional. That way I do not have to worry about which movie was actually #1, #2 etc. The release date is even of the same screen you see when editing the sort title so it gets pretty easy.
@Elijah_Baley said:
Plex sorts by standard ASCII sorting and “10” comes before “2” by that standard. The fix is also quite simple instead of using 1, 2, 3 etc use 01, 02, 03. To get correct sorting you need to leading pad everything to the same length.I actually use dates most of the time and if more than one movie I want grouped were released in the same year I append a two digit month. That is my sort fields look like this “MovieName yyyy mm” with “mm” being optional. That way I do not have to worry about which movie was actually #1, #2 etc. The release date is even of the same screen you see when editing the sort title so it gets pretty easy.
Yeah I tried using 01, 02 etc but when you get to 10, 11, 12, etc Plex bumps those and things get out of whack again. I will try using the dates like you suggested
@jsc1205 said:
Yeah I tried using 01, 02 etc but when you get to 10, 11, 12, etc Plex bumps those and things get out of whack again. I will try using the dates like you suggested
Sort titles like that should work fine. They do for me. BTW: Spaces matter so each title need to EXACTLY match up to the sort point like:
MovieName 01
MovieName 02
…
MovieName 10
MovieName 11
etc.
However trailing spaces do not matter.
What I do when creating the sort field is copy the leading field up to the point where the actual sorting should start and then paste that into each sort field and type the rest manually. So for the above I would copy "MovieName " (without the quotes but with the trailing space) and then paste that into the sort field of each movie and then type 01, 02 etc. as needed.
@Elijah_Baley said:
@jsc1205 said:
Yeah I tried using 01, 02 etc but when you get to 10, 11, 12, etc Plex bumps those and things get out of whack again. I will try using the dates like you suggestedSort titles like that should work fine. They do for me. BTW: Spaces matter so each title need to EXACTLY match up to the sort point like:
MovieName 01
MovieName 02
…
MovieName 10
MovieName 11
etc.However trailing spaces do not matter.
What I do when creating the sort field is copy the leading field up to the point where the actual sorting should start and then paste that into each sort field and type the rest manually. So for the above I would copy "MovieName " (without the quotes but with the trailing space) and then paste that into the sort field of each movie and then type 01, 02 etc. as needed.
Yes I tried that and Plex was still moving movies incorrectly. For example I used the following to make it simple for the Hopalong Cassidy movies I have. This is what I used in the Sort Title field:
Hopalong 01, Hopalong 02, …Hopalong 10, Hopalong 11, etc
Plex bumped 10, 11, etc up before 01, 02. Did the copy/paste thing like you mentioned to make sure I got things exactly the same. But maybe I missed something. Will look again. Thanks again and will let you know what I find out.
Be sure you are using zeros “0” rather than Os “O” I had a sort problem in another app and that is what it turned out to be.
@Elijah_Baley said:
Be sure you are using zeros “0” rather than Os “O” I had a sort problem in another app and that is what it turned out to be.
Yep definitely using “0”
@Elijah_Baley got it working now so not sure exactly what was going on. Thanks again for your time and help!
