[Feature Request] Sort by Playlist

[Jayinem]

I'm aware of the sort title option, but I would like to be able to have individual sort title per playlist that does not effect All or other playlists. The reason is I have a sidebar that's actually called "#playlist" (the # is so it will be first alphabetically) and I would like to rank the games I want to beat in order and not use alphabet on that while All still sorts them alphabetically. Then I can just edit game choose sort title and put a 1, 2, 3, etc.... in there. But if I do that now it will put the #1 game #1 in All and in all categories.

So basically if not a sort by title individual to the playlist, then have a playlist where I can sort the games however I want, and it does not effect the order of other lists. Whichever is easier to implement.

Edited November 12 by Jayinem

[Jayinem]

This is another idea involving making things specific to a certain playlist. I would love to be able to add certain apps to Launchbox like OBS (because I stream my Playstation 4 and 5 and Switch to PC with a capture card) without it being in All category. And I know there's OBS implementation to record games but that's not what I want or what I use OBS for. I actually play my other consoles on on my active PC monitor using a capture card and would just like to actually launch OBS from Launchbox which I know I can do right now by just adding it as a game but it would be in All with my other games. So basically an "other" category or "apps" that let's you put some app that does not show in All.

Edited November 12 by Jayinem

[C-Beats]

1 hour ago, Jayinem said:

I'm aware of the sort title option, but I would like to be able to have individual sort title per playlist that does not effect All or other playlists. The reason is I have a sidebar that's actually called "#playlist" (the # is so it will be first alphabetically) and I would like to rank the games I want to beat in order and not use alphabet on that while All still sorts them alphabetically. Then I can just edit game choose sort title and put a 1, 2, 3, etc.... in there. But if I do that now it will put the #1 game #1 in All and in all categories.

So basically if not a sort by title individual to the playlist, then have a playlist where I can sort the games however I want, and it does not effect the order of other lists. Whichever is easier to implement.

What you're asking for has been in the app for as long as I've been around (at least 6 years). In the Edit Playlist window for your playlist on the first tab set the sort to "manual" and then in the games tab order the games the way you want.

[Jayinem]

2 hours ago, C-Beats said:

What you're asking for has been in the app for as long as I've been around (at least 6 years). In the Edit Playlist window for your playlist on the first tab set the sort to "manual" and then in the games tab order the games the way you want.

Awesome! Never knew that. Thanks. But how do I sort them? I wanted Silent Hill 2 to be first so I put a 1 in sort title but it did not change the order. They seem to be just in a random order.

Edit: actually after refreshing it did, but it still changed the order to first in All.

Also about the 2nd request could that be possible where a game or app can be excluded from All. That way I could add something like Chiaki (Unofficial Playstation Remote Play streams PS4/PS5) or OBS and not have it included with my games? Not absolutely necessary but it would just be cool to use Launchbox as almost like a multimedia app.

Edited November 12 by Jayinem

[Jayinem]

I think I got it figured out to manually sort by editing the playlist.xml in data. It changed two games to 1 and 2 position in my #Playlist but kept them in order in All.

 

[faeran]

20 hours ago, Jayinem said:

I think I got it figured out to manually sort by editing the playlist.xml in data. It changed two games to 1 and 2 position in my #Playlist but kept them in order in All.

 

In the Edit Playlist window, after you've changed the sort to Manual, go to the Games tab, and you can move games up and down the list to your liking.

[Jayinem]

That's awesome, thank you. I'm all set as far as that, very happy.

 

So any opinions about excluding from all? Just think Launchbox could launch firefox, outlook mail, obs, chiaki, vlc media player with a separate playlist that's not related to games. I mean technically it could do those things now but I'm sure most don't want them mixed in with their games.

[JoeViking245]

50 minutes ago, Jayinem said:

So any opinions about excluding from all? Just think Launchbox could launch firefox, outlook mail, obs, chiaki, vlc media player with a separate playlist that's not related to games. I mean technically it could do those things now but I'm sure most don't want them mixed in with their games.

Excluding items from All would make All not really All.

I have several [non-]games similar to the examples you listed in several of my builds.  They're in their own Platforms. So not intrusive to anything else.  

Personally, I don't think I ever really click on All to look at/for games. But I do have it Enabled to show.  However, since it's enabled by default, I'm sure a lot of people do use it.

A possible option you could do is to rename All (in Tools-Options) to something like Everything.  Then create a new playlist and call it 'All'.  In the playlist, you'd have it exclude the items you don't want to see.  i.e. ROM Path - Doesn't Contain - Http

The problem with this is the playlist needs to get populated whenever you load it.  Depending on how many [actual] games you have in your collection, that could be time consuming.  (Minor. But still a factor.)

All, as it stands, is just that. It has no filters to cross-check against, so it can just grab your entire collection without prejudice.

My opinion, All should be All.  Without bias.  Non-games should be in their own platform and can be restricted as such (i.e. switch to Platform Category view and have the non-game platforms not have any "Parents" checkboxes checked.)