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Hi,

I read through the other topics as well as your to-do list and thought I'd make an alternate suggestion.

With regards to the request to not sort the films at the top of the list. I see why people do this, and I feel this could be extended to other areas of the script rather than just pigeon holing it to the top.

When it comes to my instant queue I'm pretty meticulous in how I keep it organized. It's a manual process at the moment, but I feel with a little tweaking, a script like this might be able to accomplish the same logical process I keep it organized with. My regular queue mirrors my instant queue but is not exactly the same

I'll just take my queue for example.

-At the top of the queue are a few select titles that I really want to watch soon.
-Following this are all TV shows (read: any title with multiple episodes)
-Next comes the highest rated titles 4.0 or higher that haven't already been listed, regardless of genre or format (no weight to HD or SD), order by runtime
-Next I have any HD titles that haven't already been listed, ordered by runtime.
-Finally I have all remaining titles by genre breakdown (classic, foreign, documentary, comedy, horror, drama, thriller, independent, action/adventure, sci-fi/fantasy, children/family), again within these genres the titles are sorted by runtime.

Obviously this is my own personal sorting, but I just couldn't help but notice your plan to block out the top few films could be adapted to block out multiple sections. Rather than make one special case, why not make it so that the user can define how many sections they want to block out and have different sorting configurations for each section. Then the sections can be moved around accordingly. Maybe one day a user decides they want their HD titles at the top instead of in the middle. Rather than sorting the HD titles to the top and losing all the other sorting they might have, they can just move their HD section to the top.

I've been holding out hope that Netflix might implement some of this, but it's been awhile and I haven't seen or heard anything like this.

This script is great, keep up the good work.

Maarten, love the script, and love to hear that you are developing further. Finally registered after years just to give some feedback.

I don't know how easy this is, but I would love to be able to sort my instant queue so that everything is alphabetical by title, BUT everything from the television genre remains separate from everything not of the television genre. As in, all the movies alphabetically, and then all the TV shows alphabetically.

It sounds like it will be possible for me to do this myself under the new version by sorting within line ranges even if it is not possible to incorporate something like this directly into the script.

CyricPL, I think some of what you are talking about might be possible with just the lock feature, and sequential sorts.

Right now, I usually sort my instant queue by star rating, then availability, then genre. At least when I do it in FireFox, it gives me a sort by genre, but within the genre the ones that might expire are on top, and then sorted by star rating.

I look forward to the new version that adds sorting by year. Because then I'll sort by my DVD queue first by star rating, then by availability, then by year. Hopefully, it will result in the newest, hottest movies on top.

If you sort by genre, then lock down TV, then sort alphabetically, wouldn't that do what you want? They might be clumped together in the middle, but you can easily move the set to the top or bottom then.

BadlandZ,

Yeah, that sounds like it should do what I want. Now's the part where I look like an idiot ... is the lock feature already part of the script? I never noticed it ...

No lock yet, that's next version. :-)