What is the feature or ability you would like to have?
Please explain your feature request. Add an image/screenshot if it makes sense to clarify things.
Currently the sort by category persists if you switch playlists. Feature request is to make this option configurable where the sort criteria is save per playlist. This way, different playlists can have different criteria, which is useful for building a setlist.
How will this feature help you and others?
Please explain how this helps you and other users. Keep in mind that feature requests that are too specific may not be added.
Suppose you are building a setlist with a specific order, pulling from other crates you’ve already made. You want to sort the other crates by specific criteria (BPM, Key, etc). However you’d like to keep the setlist in the predefined order.
Currently this requires changing the sort back and forth as you navigate across playlists, adding additional steps to the workflow.
Is this feature available in an existing product? If so, what product?
Please let us know if this feature already exists in any other software. This is helpful to understand the problem and perhaps come to an even better solution.
Beatport Pro
Does a workaround currently exist?
Please explain how you currently deal with the problem.
Clicking sort / unsort as needed when flipping between playlists.
This will be possible in the next beta, you can right click a playlist and overwrite the internal sort order. What that means is it will take the current order and make that the order in the database. So if you unsort the playlist (no arrow in the column header), that is the order you will see.
The “solution” offered here does not work for the ask.
All it will do is break whatever sorting I manually did.
My workflow is to create a playlist, and then program a set in a playlist, by referencing other playlists. Say I have dumped a lot of tracks that I want to play into a playlist, just a general list of tunes I may want to play. I then sort that by BPM to get a feel for the movement of the set through the BPMs.
I start building little minimixes of songs I know will go together in the playlist I will actually use when playing, a new one from the catch all bucket. Then I find that there isn’t anything in my playlist I created of songs I’d like to play that can bridge between those minimixes. So I go into a smart playlist for BPMs or generes or whatever, filter by key, and then sort by date added to see what I have thats new that might work.
But I want to go back and listen to the song I am trying to bridge, so i go back to my main playlist, the one with the minimixes, and now it’s all sorted by date added… not my manual sort, so I have to unsort, play the tune I want to mix out of, go back to my smart playlist… but oh no, now THAT is unsorted. So I sort by date added again, and continue trying to find a song. Oh, what did that song sound like again? Go back to my main playlist… shit, which one was it cause now it’s sorted by date added again… continue to the point of madness.
A simple “share sort between playlists” toggle for on and off would drastically improve my workflow in this app. The same way every other music browser in the world works.
If I hit “re-write order” of a playlist, that is sorted by date added, it destroys my manual sort. That is not a solution, that is severe frustration. Particularly because the undo button doesn’t affect sort at all.
There is an option in the next big update that remembers track selection, filters and scroll per playlist. However it does not (yet) remember the sorting