Comment 4 for bug 387111

Who the hell wants to sort their songs by title when all the songs ARE FROM THE SAME ALBUM? 99% of users, when they add an entire album to their playlist, want it added in whatever order the album creator intended, not according to track title. That's why Exaile works correctly (sorting by track number) when track numbers are present in the ID3 tag. It also works correctly when there are no ID3 tags present at all. It only breaks and works in an unexpected manner when artist/title are the only tags present in the ID3. How can that be considered the correct behavior?

And who wants their songs added sorted by rating? That doesn't make any sense at all. So you add a hundred songs to your list, starting with the lowest rated, crappiest ones first, suffering for an hour listening to crap songs until the quality gradually improves? Or you do the opposite and start with the best songs, then hit the stop button after the quality drops so low you don't want to listen any more? Maybe a tiny fraction of one percent of users might want that behavior.

So that leaves sorting by composer, which certainly makes sense, and can EASILY be done still while still CORRECTLY sorting each album by filename.

Again, every other media player on the planet gets this right, right out of the box. What's Exaile's excuse? Why is it that just about every Gnome application on the planet makes retarded assumptions that 99% of users don't agree with, save for a tiny minority consisting of only the developers themselves? What's wrong with a simple drop down box which asks me how I want new entries sorted by default?