[Solved] Samsung TV Sorting

[apollokid]

@subJunk. Let me know if i can be of any assistance - if we could get a feature or even workaround to Samsung's AllShare sorting issue would be great. As of now all Samsung users playing their album collection is most likely having a pretty frustrating experience.

[SubJunk]

Hi apollokid, I've created a feature request on our tracker so either I or another developer should be able to make this happen for you guys, cheers
https://github.com/UniversalMediaServer ... issues/429

[nwg74]

I have a new Samsung H5500 TV and noticed too that music is by alphabetical rather than track order. I don't have this with other server software but would like to use UMS. Other software shows the filename which would work for me.

[wongnog]

Ok in a different, but related sorting issue - AllShare seems to sort everything inside your folders by title name so when playing an album it sorts in alphabetical order instead by track number causing the album to play out of the intended order. What we need is a way to trick AllShare by prepending track number to the title name.

Thats right, order by date won't work too.

I noticed the same thing. Just got a brand new UN55H6400 and noticed my large video folder is automatically sorted alphabetically, even though I have UMS set for file sorting/order "By date, newest first". Really annoying, I wonder if there's any way to fix this?

[SubJunk]

Yeah that is annoying... I guess we can add a setting to number files so "My Video.mkv" will become "04: My Video.mkv" but that's ugly. I wish they would just not be so intrusive with sorting.
Have you looked for a setting in the TV menu to disable automatic sorting?

[pipin]

Yeah that is annoying... I guess we can add a setting to number files so "My Video.mkv" will become "04: My Video.mkv" but that's ugly. I wish they would just not be so intrusive with sorting.
Have you looked for a setting in the TV menu to disable automatic sorting?

There is no setting for this. What about adding the date of the file in the front? Like (15-01-08)-My Video.mkv.

By the way I noticed that all folders have an "unknown" as creating time in the overview and when look at the detailed info it gives back the lowest possible UNIX TIme with 1.1.1970. Dunno if this a samsung glitch.

[apollokid]

Ok, I opened a PR to address it. https://github.com/UniversalMediaServer ... r/pull/487

[SubJunk]

In the next version of UMS there is a renderer option "PrependTrackNumbers" which adds the track number to the beginning of song titles. I hope that helps with this.