"sortorder" in Songs folder

I'm also not sure how you change text color.

Does this have anything to do with "listsort", by any chance?

you have to modify your folder's sm files...

in my case, i add at least 2 characters before the main title under TITLETRANSLIT code like:

#TITLETRANSLIT:[2 extra charcters] [main song title];

for licensed songs--- add 2 numerical characters in ascending order,
examples:

#TITLETRANSLIT:01 Be Your Wings;
#TITLETRANSLIT:02 Bonafide Lovin';

for New KOes--- no modification so it will be automatically arranged right after licensed songs

for CS DDR imports (displays after New KOes):
#TITLETRANSLIT:zv [main song title];

for BEMANI imports (displays after CS DDR imports):
#TITLETRANSLIT:zw [main song title];

for BOSS songs (displays after BEMANI imports):
#TITLETRANSLIT:zx [main song title];

for ES/RDA songs (displays after BOSS Songs):
#TITLETRANSLIT:zy [main song title];

for EES Songs (displays after ES/RDA songs):
#TITLETRANSLIT:zz [main song title];

misc: if you want a non-alphabetical order for RDA group just add a number after zy like:
#TITLETRANSLIT:zy1 Shiny World;
#TITLETRANSLIT:zy2 Sakura Sunrise;
#TITLETRANSLIT:zy3 Pierce The Sky;
#TITLETRANSLIT:zy4 Anti-Matter;
#TITLETRANSLIT:zy5 New Deacde;
#TITLETRANSLIT:zy6 POSSESSION;

Under Select Music Screen, press F9 button to switch between Native or Romanized text in songwheel banner to get rid of the first extra characters.

cons: they will alter the arrangement when you sort them by ABC aside from GROUP sort.

That's the reason i chose to apply that in my DDR X2 folder only.

Does it have to be done with every sm file in the category folder?

Yes. All he's doing is tricking the alphabetic sort. StepMania uses zA Brighter Day for sorting because it is the actual name of the song, but it uses "A Brighter Day" as the display name. Well, if there's a section you actually want in alphabetical order, you can skip editing the .sm for one such section (but no more than one).

If I read what the stepmania forum has told me correctly, all you have to do is place a "1" in the listsort tag of the song you want to be first, a "2" in the second, "3" in the third, and so on...

Am I correct in this?

Not quite. If you were here to simply name them "1" "2" "3" etc, it would start to disorganize itself once you reach the double digits. So instead of listing the numerically, it'll list them as so:

1
10
11
12
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9

So you need that zero at the beginning to prevent that from happening.

I know most people have it and this probably doesn't fit into the particular topic but...

to make a specific set of songs show "ONLY" (LIKE how DDR EXTREME had graduation as a first song)

in METRICS, go to the SortMenuActions line and add "sort,SORT LIST" and on the SortMenuNames add "anything"

for me, i have...

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
SortMenuNames=GROUP/SERIES:ABC:BPMIFFICULTY:FAVORITE:REPLICANT D-action
SortMenuActions=sort,GROUP:sort,TITLE:sort,BPM:sort,HARD METER:sort,PLAYERS BEST:sort,SORT LIST
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
and in that sort option i have the seven RDA songs in my own order.
Pierce The Sky
Sakura Sunrise
Shiny World
New Decade
Anti-Matter
POSSESSION
Valkyrie Dimension

instead of alphabetical letter first.
but i hope it will only be temp as I would like to find a way to have all my groups in specific orders.

... ... ... ... ...GOD I HATE THAT SMILEY WHEN YOU DON'T NEED IT!

you have to modify your folder's sm files...

in my case, i add at least 2 characters before the main title under TITLETRANSLIT code like:

#TITLETRANSLIT:[2 extra charcters] [main song title];

for licensed songs--- add 2 numerical characters in ascending order,
examples:

#TITLETRANSLIT:01 Be Your Wings;
#TITLETRANSLIT:02 Bonafide Lovin';

for New KOes--- no modification so it will be automatically arranged right after licensed songs

for CS DDR imports (displays after New KOes):
#TITLETRANSLIT:zv [main song title];

for BEMANI imports (displays after CS DDR imports):
#TITLETRANSLIT:zw [main song title];

for BOSS songs (displays after BEMANI imports):
#TITLETRANSLIT:zx [main song title];

for ES/RDA songs (displays after BOSS Songs):
#TITLETRANSLIT:zy [main song title];

for EES Songs (displays after ES/RDA songs):
#TITLETRANSLIT:zz [main song title];

misc: if you want a non-alphabetical order for RDA group just add a number after zy like:
#TITLETRANSLIT:zy1 Shiny World;
#TITLETRANSLIT:zy2 Sakura Sunrise;
#TITLETRANSLIT:zy3 Pierce The Sky;
#TITLETRANSLIT:zy4 Anti-Matter;
#TITLETRANSLIT:zy5 New Deacde;
#TITLETRANSLIT:zy6 POSSESSION;

Under Select Music Screen, press F9 button to switch between Native or Romanized text in songwheel banner to get rid of the first extra characters.

cons: they will alter the arrangement when you sort them by ABC aside from GROUP sort.

That's the reason i chose to apply that in my DDR X2 folder only.