Improve sorting of session playlists in History feature

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Reported by: esbrandt
Date: 2013-02-16T10:44:46Z
Status: Fix Committed
Importance: Wishlist
Launchpad Issue: lp1127120
Tags: library, polish, usability

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As dates increase in value as time goes on, the current session playlist sorting place your dates in oldest to newest order. This makes it quite hard to read, especially if the number of entries grow over the month.

I propose to switch to a ascending, from newest to oldest, sorting order with the following folder structure:

Year
  |
  Month
    |
    Date

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Commented by: rryan
Date: 2014-03-24T20:53:35Z

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+1, this would be better

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Commented by: naught101
Date: 2014-10-03T13:26:01Z

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I was going to suggest an option to auto-merge old history - something like any sessions older than a couple of days get merged by day, older than a month get merged by month, older than a year get merged by year, but this is a better suggestion.

Could we have it so that if you select the year, you get a merged version of all sub-histories?

Also, could we have it so that the more recent histories are at the top (reverse sort), and the most recent history is auto-expanded?

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Commented by: naught101
Date: 2016-10-21T01:41:25Z

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This is probably dependant on/related to https://bugs.launchpad.net/mixxx/+bug/1321841 and https://bugs.launchpad.net/mixxx/+bug/671632

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Commented by: daschuer
Date: 2016-10-21T05:39:53Z

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The solution is part of Joan's PR #991

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Commented by: ronso0
Date: 2020-08-05T20:56:45Z

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#2996

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Issue closed with status Fix Committed.