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App Version

1.4.2

Music Server and Version

Navidrome 0.6

What local environments are you seeing the problem on?

Desktop macOS

What happened?

When browsing large playlists in Feishin, there's a frustrating UX issue where the display order of the playlist directly affects how search results are ranked, creating an impossible choice between two conflicting needs.

Steps to reproduce

Current Behavior

Default playlist display order (oldest to newest)

Shows the same first 50 songs repeatedly
Makes it hard to discover recently added tracks
Large playlists become hard to navigate

Reversed playlist order (newest to oldest)

Solves the discovery problem
Shows recently added tracks at the top ✓
But: When searching within the playlist, the best match (the song you're looking for) appears last instead of first ✗

The core issue: The playlist sort order is directly coupled with the search result ranking, forcing users to choose between usable browsing or usable search.

Expected Behavior

Playlist display order should default to: newest to oldest

This is the standard pattern on Spotify, Apple Music, etc.
Users expect to see recent additions first

Search within playlists should:

Rank results by relevance (best match first)
Be completely independent from the playlist display order
Always show the most relevant result at the top, regardless of how the playlist is sorted

Why This Matters

Large playlists become unusable:

You're forced to scroll through hundreds of songs to find anything new
Standard UX expectation: Every major music service shows recent additions first
Search should be about relevance, not sort order: These are two separate concerns and shouldn't interfere with each other

Possible Solutions

Option 1: Change default sort order + decouple from search

Switch default playlist order to descending (newest first)
Make search results always rank by relevance, ignoring playlist sort

Option 2: Add a separate "search ranking" setting

Keep current playlist sort options
Add an independent toggle for search result ranking

Option 3: Intelligently handle both concerns

Default to descending order
Detect search context and always prioritize relevance in search results