List Episode name then series when displaying names alphabetically

[Mike Clayton]

Hi Petr

When listing media via title, could episode names be displayed then the series they come from.

Ie. List by Title, Letter P I get

• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Mans's chest
• Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
• Pitch Black
• Andromida (4/04):Pitiless as the Sun
• Farscape (1/05):PK Tech Girl
• BlackAdder (4/02):Plan B: Corporal Punish...
• Planet Terror
• Star Trek: Deep space Nine (2/17):Playin...

It would be much easier to read if the Episode name came first...

Ie. List by Title, Letter P

• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Mans's chest
• Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
• Pitch Black
• Pitiless as the Sun:Andromida (4/04)
• PK Tech Girl:Farscape (1/05)
• Plan B: Corporal Punishment:BlackAdder (4/02)
• Planet Terror
• Playing God: Star Trek: Deep space Nine (2/17)

[Petr Nejedly]

but they will still be sorted by the episode name, ie going to Titles -> P you will get episodes starting with P, not series. So you would end up with

• Movie staring with P
• Searies Name1: SSxEE: episodeNameStartingWithP
• Searies Name2: SSxEE: episodeNameStartingWithP
• Movie staring with P
• Searies Name2: SSxEE: episodeNameStartingWithP

Is that something you want?

[Mike Clayton]

Hi Petr

This is what I was thinking. Keeping the sort order exactly the same just put the Episode name before the series name

Before After Just easier to read

[Will Lunniss]

Is this being appied to other views (e.g. Last added etc...?), or is it only when going via Titles? I have code that extracts the series name, season number, episode number and episode title from the combined title when in the details view and this change will require a different regex pattern.

[Will Lunniss]

Actually this is going to be a pain for the case where the episode or show name has a : in it, as before I was able to make use of the (NN/NN): in the middle to seperate the two. I don't think its possible to reliably split something like Playing God: Star Trek: Deep space Nine (2/17) into episode name and series name. Any ideas?

[Petr Nejedly]

It will only be for Titles, does that help?

[Will Lunniss]

OK. I guess i'll just have to make a best effort approach in that case, from my own collection, its more likely that the series name has the : in it that the episode name.

[Petr Nejedly]

OK, so what if I change that to

Playing God: (2/17) Star Trek: Deep space Nine

[Will Lunniss]

If thats OK with the OP, then yes, that would then make it possible to extract the info I need. Currently its only cosmetic as it allows me to display 01. Pilot by the thumbnail, then Series Name - Season 01 undernearth, but in later versions I want to be able to let the user navigate straight to the series/season from an episode regardless of how they got there.

[Mike Clayton]

Work for me to.

Think we have a compromise

[Petr Nejedly]

ok, done