[SM5 release] StepMania 5.1.0 Alpha 2 released

StepMania 5.1.0 Alpha 2 release notes
Bugfixes, NewField improvements, and a new fullscreen backend for linux.

StepMania 5.0.11 release notes
This will probably be the last release in the 5.0.x line. Maintaining two separate branches is a hassle, and the 5.1 branch is in good shape.

If you downloaded 5.1.-2 before this post, you have a version with broken autogen. Turns out it was broken for 5 months and nobody noticed.

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I'm getting an error on the SSE2 version of SM 5.0.11, the non-SSE2 version works though.

That SSE2 exe is a few versions outdated because non-SSE2 support was dropped. The main exe is the SSE2 exe now.

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Hope I'm forgiven for bumping, but I have a question about SM5. Is there a metric option to sort songs in a customized way? As it stands now, obviously putting songs in a folder, it just sorts in alphabetical order:

A
ABSOLUTE
Bad Routine
CANDY

However, what if we want to sort songs differently, like having licenses first, then originals in the same series folder, like:

CARTOON HEROES
La Bamba
WE WILL ROCK YOU
321 STARS
PARANOiA Survivor
SAKURA

Not sure if that was asked and/or answered before, but interested in utilizing such a feature if available. Or do we have to change the folder names to be have numbers and be in numerical order to sort that way?

it was definitely asked and answered before: https://zenius-i-vanisher.com/v5.2/viewthread.php?threadid=6521


I recommend editing the "SongManager PreferredSongs.txt" file located in the Themes/_fallback/Other folder so that any theme that doesn't have this type of file can use it by default.

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Much appreciated, I will give it a look and play with it.

To whoever made the Edgy noteskin, it looks very cool. I think it should support dance and techno modes too.

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Just got around to trying this but it still doesn't sort from the file after editing. Example, my file reads this:

--- DDR 2010
DDR 2010/According to You
DDR 2010/Bad Romance
DDR 2010/Battlefield
DDR 2010/Hey, Soul Sister
DDR 2010/Love Shack
DDR 2010/Missing
DDR 2010/My Life Would Suck Without You
DDR 2010/Need You Now
DDR 2010/Rio
DDR 2010/So Fine
DDR 2010/Venus
DDR 2010/Curry Up
DDR 2010/Double Tornard

But songs like Curry Up, Double Tornard are still showing after the Bs. Any idea what I'm screwing up?

add a "/" at the end of each line. I looked through my waieiGroupSort (which is a variatation of PreferredSongs.txt) file and all of the lines in the .txt (save for the folder names, obviously) end with "/"

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Still no dice for me. It now reads:

--- DDR 2010
DDR 2010/According to You/
DDR 2010/Bad Romance/
DDR 2010/Battlefield/
DDR 2010/Hey, Soul Sister/
DDR 2010/Love Shack/
DDR 2010/Missing/
DDR 2010/My Life Would Suck Without You/
DDR 2010/Need You Now/
DDR 2010/Rio/
DDR 2010/So Fine/
DDR 2010/Venus/
DDR 2010/Curry Up/
DDR 2010/Double Tornard/

And they're still appearing in alphabetical order. Does the SongManager file need to be renamed, or some other metric changes so that it reads it?

hmm... thats strange...

But then again, that .txt file isn't always used and I'm not really a coder myself to implement changes so it can read it (besides, that was a 2.2 year old thread, so its probably outdated), Though the Waiei, CyberiaStyle (CS8 and CSLA, specifically) and D3NEX Themes utilize the "Group.ini" feature to sort songs and extra stage folders, so you might want to download one of those themes and tinker with it.

EDIT: Ah, what am I doing, its probably using the current theme's SongManager files for sorting instead of the _fallback one. Copy and Paste the sort there and see if it works. The Waiei, CS8/CSLA and D3NEX Themes will use their own version of the SongManager files so don't always expect the song sort to carry over those themes.

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I tried that as well. I've altered between putting it in the _fallback\Other folder, and the theme I'm using \Other folder. I've also altered between using either "/" or "\" in the file, because I noticed the example that was in the PreferredSongs file in the theme when installed.

As it stands now, the PreferredSongs file in both _fallback and theme are identical. Still not sorting in my custom order. And we are sure that it's the PreferredSongs and not PreferredSort, right?

Try the PreferredSort.

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Still nada. This may be a silly question, but was this feature broken in a previous version. I'm still using SM5.09a2 from last year, and I wanted to at least see if I could get this sort working here before upgrading to SM5.1.0a2.

If not, unless I'm doing something wrong, the sort isn't working, at least not for me... I've put entries in the PreferredSongs and PreferredSort files in _fallback, Theme, even the default locations...

Upon searching for other threads related to the PreferredSort.txt file, the feature might be broken/outdated as the file goes all the way back to 3.9/3.95... I never really used it back in the day to find out how it works. Then again, it said that it didn't work in 3.9/3/9+.

Well, it was worth a try though. I don't see any other working way atm other than using the #TITLETRANSLIT trick or Waiei's Group.ini feature to sort the songs.

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Hm, I wonder if the group.ini thing works solely with waiei, or can it be configured to work with other themes. Can you give an example of what the group.ini file looks like and/or how it's configured.

Also, what about the #TITLETRANSLIT trick? I only know that to change how SM reads the song itself, but that'd be useless if I were to have a song like Curry Up have a #TITLETRANSLIT to like xCurry Up, just because I want it to show towards the end of the folder....right?

Group.ini, according to waiei, only works with 5 themes at the moment: Waiei/Waiei2, D3NEX and CS8/CSLA. Basically, The Group.ini file's main purpose is to set/customize extra folders and sort songs, along with menu colors and meter type. However, their functionality between these 5 themes vary, which is why I just use Waiei because it uses most of the commands. A typical Group.ini can start like this:


You can sort songs using either #SortList_Rear or #SortList_Front. These will make changes to the aforementioned GroupSort file in the theme. To do this, put the following in the .ini:



There's other commands to put in there as well, but explaining it would take up the entire page, but you can look it up in Waiei's Theme website.

Also, the #TITLETRANSLIT trick isn't really recommended anyways since it always screws with the ABC Sort and wastes the slot needed for songs that don't have translated titles yet. Of course, you can switch the #TITLE and #TITLETRANSLIT around to get a similar effect that can be still ABC Sort-Friendly, but it still leaves the untranslated titles.

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Finally figured it out; got razorblade's input as well. There was a change in the metrics.ini file that also needs to be edited to get it to sort this way. Basically added "Preferred" to the MusicWheel section.

However a new question just came to me, and it's about the series jackets showing on the musicwheel. I see in the graphics that the series jackets are named like group 001 DDR, 010 DDR SuperNOVA2. I thought all I needed to do was name the folders under \Songs to be similar (DDR, DDR SuperNOVA2) for it to show the jacket graphics, but it's not. It's showing a "common fallback" graphic instead. How is it configured to show the series folders jacket when navigating the songwheel? Another metrics change, or naming the graphics differently?

Never mind, I feel stoopit -- I figured out what I was doing wrong. Jackets in the song group folder....duh....