Not sure if anyone except me has a need for this, but it'd sure help me a lot... I'd really like an option in jEmplode (from the right click menu probably) to set playlist properties from the tracks contained within that playlist. The main reason I want it is so I can sort my albums by year within artist folders, but I think it'd also be nice to set the "Source", "Artist", and "Genre" fields for playlists when applicable. Obviously this would only be relevant for playlists which contain tracks inside them, and the algorithm would have to deal with fields that aren't the same inside (for instance, playlist contains tracks from different years, or differnet sources.) But I think it could be as simple as the following and still be very useful for me:

For each playlist in the playlist tree (recursively)
If this playlist contains tracks, examine them
For all fields that have the same value for ALL tracks in the playlist (at this level), change the playlist's field to that value

The second feature, then, is a recursive "set playlist order" feature which, after I run the above feature, could sort recursively sort each playlist based on the value of a chosen field. It'd also be nice if you could choose a 2nd or 3rd field to sort by in case the first fields are equal. Or it could even get fancy and have a specified field for each level of the tree (Artist level sorted by "Title", Album level sorted by "Year" etc.)

So how hard would it be to implement these two features? I think it'd be really great, because with a few clicks, I could sort my entire "Albums" playlist tree by year within each artist. I'm sure it'd have other uses too, but I can't think of any others right now

So whaddya say, Mike?
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