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So, when you sort, it changes the playback order? Yes, sorting does change the order. Consider this simple playlist. First item has a name 25.track.mp3, but since it has metadata in it, it won't be sorted properly, because it has some garbage in metatags. If we had a possibility to omit reading met...

And you're not answering my question. Of course, for playback. It is what are playlists for, right? We put a bunch of files into the playlist and all we need is to sort them according the file name, not by a metadata. And URI column is not suitable for this task because it does not work properly wi...

For the playback? For the selection of the file to open? For a media library like? Here's another example how showing filenames in playlist is useful: When we need to sort compositions according filename (i.e. all of them are prepended with index number). ALSO if 'do not preparse' option is used, w...