LSP - Sort presets by by instrument

[tresf]

Seems it would be useful to cache the XML instrument information and be able to sort by instrument in the LSP.

⚠️ This is a mockup

[Umcaruje]

+1

[teeberg]

Has that menu changed since this bug was reported? It's not showing me the separate type/instrument sections:

[tresf]

It's not showing me the separate type/instrument sections:

Sorry, that was a mockup. I've edited the original post to clarify.

[teeberg]

oh it's an enhancement request, not a bug! :-) got it, thanks for clarifying!

[tresf]

The .xpf files' instrument data aren't currently indexed, so adding this would require a method to extract and scan each .xpf on the server's filesystem and then populate a new "Instrument" column into the database for that file.

This is going to suffer upgrade issues as well as instruments get renamed internally, e.g. papu versus FreeBoy.

I vote we close this, but it's 100% technologically feasible and wouldn't be a whole lot of work.