Sorting Media by Date/Name

I just installed Serviio 1.1 Server on my QNAP NAS. I am amazed out how well it works and I can finally stream my music over 3/4G to my phone. I use ServiGO as the client and today I wanted to located a new podcast. I can't find a way to sort the files by date. Is this possible? I don't see any settings that allow me to do so in either the server or the client.

[will]

No, I could add an option to sort the current folder by date, but I don't think that would be much use. Was this a podcast that you had just added? Maybe a Last Added category might help?

Thanks for the reply. I have a bunch of photos and I wanted to sort from the newest to the oldest because I didn't know exactly what the name of the files were. They were sorted alphabetically I believe so that dates were pretty randomized.

[Illico]

I can't find a way to sort the files by date. Is this possible? I don't see any settings that allow me to do so in either the server or the client.

It's not to the server client (Serviio) to sort files, this is the renderer that choose how to represent files.
Some renderers support this feature, probably your Phone not.

[will]

Thanks for the reply. I have a bunch of photos and I wanted to sort from the newest to the oldest because I didn't know exactly what the name of the files were. They were sorted alphabetically I believe so that dates were pretty randomized.

Are the photos all in the same folder, or are they in sub folders? If they are in the same folder then I can probably do something about it.

Yes. I have them arranged in folders and those having sub folders. On average each sub folder has 20-30 photos and maybe some videos. Why does.the folder organization make a difference..just curious...
Thanks for looking into this.

[will]

Why does.the folder organization make a difference..just curious...

Because Serviio provides ServiiGo with date information for files, but not folders. So I could add an option to sort files in a folder by date, but I couldn't add an option to sort a folder full of folders by date. If you want the first (finding a the newest files when you know the folder name), I'll look at adding it for the next version, if you want the second (finding the folder that contains the newest files), then it won't be possible until the server is changed as well.

Aha. I see what.you mean. Sorting the files within a folder would be fine I think.
Thanks Will!

[will]

OK, i'll see if I can get it in for the next version which will be out around the same time as Serviio 1.3, although there are a lot of things on the todo list so it may be the one after.

Out of interest, was the Month category not good enough for finding recent files?

I don't think I even tried the month feature.My access to Sergiio has been down when accessing from ServiGo because i am running 1.1. I am going to he upgrading tonight to 1.2. ServiGo told me that my version was too old, ServiDroid continued to work beautifully though. Anyway, let me give the Month thing a try. Maybe that's all I need?

[will]

Yeah ServiiDroid works all the way back to 0.6 (although I haven't tested that for at least a year and don't plan on doing so), and although it is a pain to maintain, it OK because i'm just presenting a list of options to the user and can selectively show things mainly based on if the server includes them in the response/some if version is > X checks.

ServiiGo is different, in order to use some of the new features which I've requested be added to Serviio, I ended up having to write elaborate hacks to provide similar functionaility on the older versions, and as less than 10% of users were on 1.1 I decided it was time to drop support. When 1.3 comes out, I should still be able to support 1.2 for a while, although the app won't look as good on 1.2 as it does currently as I'm adjusting the layouts to work with the higher resolution thumbnails that 1.3 is brining. 1.3 will also have search and folder thumbnails to name just a few new features so I hope most users will upgrade pretty quickly.

Thanks for that info. Wish me luck in getting 1.2 installed. There is a qpkg i used last.night talthough the server works i can't get the web interface doen't appear to come up. Quite possibly it is my user error. Christian may have released a.non-beta pkg but i haven't found it yet. Worse case is that i have to manually install the bits but i'll do what i have to.

[will]

Which WebUI/version are you using?

Well, this is frustrating....
I have been scouring the forums all night and I've yet to find a viable way to fix my problem. I know this is off-topic from what we were discussing but here is my problem. When I try to access Serviio I get "You don't have permission to access /serviio on this server."

I installed the QPKG that Christian put together. It was 1.2.1_b11. That seems to be the latest one I can find.

Now, to get around this (or at least until a fixed QPKG is released) the workaround is by running a bunch of scripts. I don't mind doing that IF I knew Linux. There is one long post that talks about running a bunch of scripts which alledgedly fixes several problems (on being the issue with WebUI). Which brings me (finally) to your question. I have no idea how to find which version of WebUI i am using. It's probably simple to do, but I don't know how!

If I had a step-by-step "Linux for Dummies" guide I could probably pull it off, but the majority of posts I find are for people who apparently are quite well versed in running scripts, compiling stuff etc. Me? Not so much.

Sorry about the rant but I'm kind of frustrated at this point. The main reason I use Serviio is because it worked. I have tried just about all of them and Serviio was the ONE that actually worked, fast and easy to set up. Especially with ServioGo as the client. I thought my search was over. Really the ONLY reason I got it was to be able to access my media on my cell phone. I was quite happy. Then things went pear-shaped.

Any ideas?

[will]

Start a new thread in the NAS section or post in the NAS specific package thread (as otherwise those who use your NAS are unlikely to notice, but link to it from here so that I can have a look) and include what you did, information about file permisions (e.g. ls -l /opt/serviio (or wherever serviio is installed)), and if its there the serviio log. Other questions would be do you get that error when visiting the WebUI in your browser? If so, does ServiiDroid work at the moment?


If you PM me I can send you an older version of ServiiGo.

I see you could add an option to sort the current folder by date. I am interested in this fontion. Have you integrated this function in Serviio 1.3?

I have holiday pictures in a folder and i want to sort them by shooting date or more easily by date. I tried several server but every time the picture are mixe because the sort is made by name.

Tell me if you have put this function in serviio

Thank you

[will]

I see you could add an option to sort the current folder by date. I am interested in this fontion. Have you integrated this function in Serviio 1.3?

I have holiday pictures in a folder and i want to sort them by shooting date or more easily by date. I tried several server but every time the picture are mixe because the sort is made by name.

Tell me if you have put this function in serviio

Thank you

Do you want this for ServiiGo, or are you looking for it for Serviio for use on DLNA clients + MediaBrowser etc.. (This request was for ServiiGo, but your asking about Serviio)?

I had actually forgetten about this, so it didn't make it into 3.0, i'm making an issue now though so that I rememeber.

Hello
I have a PC with serviio installed. I want with my TV browse pictures folder and sort them by date to show it in order. Is it possible for you?

what is difference between Serviio / Serviiogo ?
Thanks

[will]

What TV do you have? It will be up to the TV as to whether it can sort content by date/title.

ServiiGo is seperate android app used to access Serviio remotely, and the OP wanted me to add sort functionallity to ServiiGo. So anything I add to ServiiGo is no use to people who access Serviio using their TV's etc...

I have a SONY kdl 40w5500. When i want to sort on TV, the TV show a message like that ' Functionnality not supported by the server'.

Can you add a functionnality on Serviio?

Thanks to try to help me.