Restore order of tracks in the playlist

[Adam Olsen]

Several times it happens that I wrongly press (for example) Artist button in the current playlist, that reorders it from A to Z (or Z to A) but there is no way to recover my own order, that is lost with this wrong action.
There should be a way to replace the personalized order of the tracks.
An idea is: The first time I press (for example) the Artist button, the playlist is ordered for Artist from A to Z, the second time I press it, the order is Z to A, the third time, that order is canceled and there is again my own edited order.

I dream this feature, but I never saw it in a player like Exaile!, or Amarok, or any other.

Saluti.
Andrea

This ticket was migrated from the old trac: re #576

[Steve Dodier-Lazaro (sidi)]

This is feasible technically, but I'm not sure if it is a very good approach, since users won't expect it to happen. I would instead like to have a way to let the user manually fix the sorting of the playlist (so if (s)he does something wrong, (s)he still can remove the last added sorting criteria instead of clicking everywhere again to "rebuild" it).

I can only think of two ways to implement this : a list of tags that can be reordered in the prefs dialog, or in a separate dialog that can be opened either via a menu entry (global menu or playlist columns menu), or via a keyboard shortcut. The best might be the menu entry in the Columns menu.

[Mathias Brodala (mathbr)]

In plain GTK getting this behavior is as easy as wrapping the model with a gtk.TreeModelSort instance and setting the column_sort_id for all columns. Doesn’t work that way in our case though...