[Feature Request] Sort songs by metadata.

[ghost]

I mentioned this sorta in a comment on another issue, but it would really be nice if songs were automatically sorted by track listing.

[deltabeard]

The only problem with this is the toll on performance, especially with large folders, as each audio file would need to be opened and have its metadata checked.
To mitigate such performance problems, a small database could be used to cache metadata information of audio files.

[ghost]

Ha, yea that's what I was about to mention. You could configure the database to refresh on open, or have it refresh periodically, or just do it manually.

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-- Leo Coogan 18 May 2021, 12:07 by ***@***.***:

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