[2555] Track number tags without leading zeroes are incorrectly sorted

[coryoon]

Hi,

Was playing around with the various skins on offer for AIMP today when I found this, no idea if its intended behaviour or a bug or if its something I can personally fix in the sorting templates or something...

I noticed that when you tell AIMP to load up and play an entire folder either by dragging and dropping or through the context menu, it doesn't quite know how to sort songs correctly. Initially, I thought it was entirely due to the "sort by file name" option, which I turned off but I noticed further errors happening. To that extent I noticed that it was still reading from the file names for sorting even though I turned that off earlier.

In the first attachment, we can see I've loaded up an album that has track number tags without any leading zeroes (1, 2, 3 etc) but the filename DOES have them. Thus, everything is sorted correctly. However, in the second attachment we have an album that has no leading zeroes in either the tags or filenames, and AIMP shoves the tracks tagged #10 and above right below the first one.

Any way of fixing this at all without going through my entire music collection and retagging things to have leading zeroes? Thanks!

[Artem]

What app version? What to do reproduce the issue?

[coryoon]

Latest version (v5.30.2555). Turn off "Sort by file name" In Playlist > File adding. Have two albums over 10 tracks long. Both should have track numbers in the filename but only one should look like "01, 02, 03..." whilst the other should look like "1, 2, 3...". Both of them should have track number tags that look like "1, 2, 3...".

Should replicate the situation I'm in exactly. The one with "01, 02, 03" in the file name will be sorted correctly but the one with "1, 2, 3" in the file name wont be, which is the issue.

[Artem]

If the "sort by file name" option is switched off, AIMP will add the files in the order they came from the external application.

[coryoon]

That doesn't seem to be the case though. If I add to the playlist via the context menu or by dragging and dropping the folder onto the playlist, it still displays them out of order. Far as I can tell, it's clearly misreading track number tags without leading zeroes as well as reading from file names regardless of if "sort by file name" is on or off.

If the number tags are like this:
1. Track 1
2. Track 2
...
10. Track 10
11. Track 11

then what will happen is AIMP puts them into the play list like so:
1. Track 1
2. Track 10
3. Track 11
4. Track 2

This does not happen if either the number tags have leading zero (e.g. "01" not just "1") or if the file name has them (e.g. "01. Track 1").

I've never seen this isssue in other players before which is why it's confusing me so much.

[Artem]

The "sort by file name" option must be switched on to resolve this issue.

[coryoon]

But why? Would it not be better to make AIMP properly understand number tags without leading zeroes? Even if it was turned on, it's not guaranteed to work properly. I first found out about this issue *because* that option was turned on due to it also causing incorrect sorting. Right now it really is looking as if the correct solution is to either systematically go through every single folder of music I have on my hard drive (over 300gb worth) or stop using AIMP for something else, and I'd really rather not do either of those...

[Artem]

Would it not be better to make AIMP properly understand number tags without leading zeroes

Its already understand. When you switch the option off, AIMP does nothing with incoming files, just add them as it send. Order specified by external app, not AIMP