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The thing is, to categorize your music, you should maybe use labels instead of putting them in lists. Mostly the only reason for these lists to exist is so that you can order them manually (and also have a song multiple times in the list, though I'm not sure anyone actually want that feature).
Though I must admit that there are currently GUI reasons to use lists instead of labels, such as being able to classify them using drag-and-drop. Suggestions on making the use of labels easier is welcome, I could of course allow opening labels in a tab that list all matching songs, and add the label to any song dropped on it, though it does feel a little strange so I'm still not sure about it.

What is label? Is it specific to GMusicBrowser or is it something in MP3 tags?

May be I am not using GMB correctly. The Layout "List, Library, Context" is too complicate. It has too many lists, library pane, playlist. May be I messed up somewhere. I was hoping this is the view closest to Foobar Media player (on Windows). I switched to the Exaile or Playlist view. This is now more bearable in terms of Sorting. But there is another bug. As soon as I click on a folder, GMB plays right away. I was expecting that it would expand the content of the folder to give me a chance to review the content.

Sorry I am wasting too much of your time. May be GMB is not the right player for me.

Hi,

How about re-order the entire list each time the content of the list is changed? The sort criteria would be what is currently selected. If you don't want to implement that "automatic sort on list change", is it Ok to add a button "Sort List" and let the user click on it to re-order the entire list?

When you said "Songs with no defined order (as your example)", why no defined order? I would think that their sort order is already define, by "Path,Album,Disc,Track,File" as shown in the top left of the screen shot.

BTW, how does GMusicBrowser behave when a tag is missing? For example, the Disc tag is most of the time missing in my albums.

Not working at all. I create a new list to make a test. I click on that sort icon, select various sort options. I even created a custom order (Album, Title or Filename)

For each sort option, I made the following test:
- Empty the list
- Drag & drop a folder from the file system. The title tag have the track prefix (like 01-Song1, 02-Song2). In my case, filename and title are identical.

Regardless of the sort option I selected, the tracks are always display in a seemingly random order:

Hi,

Using GMuscBrowser 1.1.12 on Xubuntu 13.04 x64.

I create a new Playlist, drag drop a folder containing an album with around 20 tracks. The tracks are displayed randomly. I need to click on the Filename header to have the tracks sorted correctly.

Question: Is there a way to have the Playlist always sorted by (Album, Track#)?

The album is perfectly tagged. File names are named with track number prefix ("01 - Track1.mp3", "02 - Track2.mp3", ... "14 - Track14.mp3", etc.). When played using other players (desktop, android players, Blackberry tablet, dedicated MP3 player) the tracks are always sorted correctly (by track number ascending).

Thanks in advance for any help.