Queue sorting options

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The following configuration options allow altering the order in which source files are processed. This is useful when you want to give priority to certain files, or to achieve more complex tasks. Please note that if you don’t require sorting for any specific reason, it is better not to use any sorting at all for performance reasons, specially if you want to process huge amounts of source files.

Explanation of the sorting fields:

name: Filename to be processed. ie. "video.avi"
ext: Extension of the file. ie. "avi"
size: Filesize of the file to process.
date: Last modification date of the file.

Sort order modifiers:

ASC:  Ascending order. i.e. a-z, 0-9
DESC: Descending order. i.e. z-a, 9-0

 

queue_sort_local_files

Type: Optional
Default: (empty)
Accepts: name, size, date or ext
Example: queue_sort_local_files = size DESC
Description: Local sorting only sorts files and folders at the current folder level. This means that just the files and folders present in the currently scanned folder are sorted. Default sorting is ASC. You can set explicit ASC or DESC. Multiple sort fields are allowed separated by a comma, ie. size DESC, name

 

queue_sort_local_folders

Type: Optional
Default: (empty)
Accepts: name, date
Example: queue_sort_local_folders = size DESC
Description: Local sorting of folders can be done by name or date (last modified date).

 

queue_sort_global

Type: Optional
Default: (empty)
Accepts: name, size, date, ext
Example: queue_sort_global = size DESC
Description: The global sorting performs the sort after all files to be processed have been collected. Note the difference in sorting, for example sorting by "size DESC", will give us the biggest files of any folders at the beginning of the queue, while local sorting "size DESC" will give us the biggest file of the current folder first, then the 2nd largest file in that same folder regardless if there are bigger files in different folders.

If set, this overrides any local sorting setting.