Twonky sorting music in "folder" mode (still...)

Its not about linux skills, its about what is and isnt possible to do from the twonky settings interface

it isnt possible to do the from the twonky settings interface

so you going to have to edit a file by hand

if you can read you can do it, its easy

You can use putty or winscp, but WinSCP will be the easiest way to do it

WinSCP can be found here http://winscp.net

  1. Enable SSH access http://mybooklive/Ui/Ssh

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  1. Connect using WinSCP

  2. Login as “root” password is “welc0me”

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  1. change path to /usr/local/twonkymedia-5/resources/views

  1. Open view-definitions.xml by Double Clicking on it

6 Scroll down to till you see this <container name=‘folder’ id=‘music/folders’

  1. Add albumart and sortcriteris to the container string

You can use, what is already being used on the other music containers

  • albumart=‘1’ sortcriteria=‘+pv:numberOfThisDisc,+upnp:originalTrackNumber’

Or you can do as they did in the post you referenced, your choice

  • albumart=‘1’  sortcriteria=‘+upnp:originalTrackNumber,+dc:title’

This is the part where you would insert you choice from above

This is what it would look like when added

  1. After making the desired changes to view-definitions.xml, save it, close it, and close WinScp

  2. Restart twonky server by unchecking enable and then checking again to enable it

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  1. All done
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