The ability to sort content, particularly videos, into folders has long been asked for by the PlayStation community. Turns out we actually have it with Firmware 2.0. If you already knew this, then carry on your usual business – if not, then here’s a guide.
All you have to do is select a video, press triangle, go to Information and edit the “Album” – this will be the name of the folder it is grouped under. Give the same Album name to every video you want in that folder – it might seem a repetitive task, but after you’ve done it once you should only need to type two letters and let predictive text do the rest. When you’re done, press triangle on any video, go to “Group Content” and then “By Album”. As you can see in the picture above, it should group them all into album folders. The only downside, is that the moving video thumbnails don’t work any more.
This works for pictures, music (obviously), videos and games. So there we have it – custom content folders.
I noticed this too… really useful feature, and my things are now looking ace and organised, but you need a lot time to do it if you have a lot of videos, I have nearly 200 on mine, so it took forever, was worth it though… tis really nice to be able to do it with games too, sorting demos n games n stuff… ^_^
Comment by Martin — Nov 13, 2007 @ 5:00 pm
cool! now i wish they would add VIDEO playlists. would be nice to play all my music videos as a playlist.
Comment by warhawk fan — Nov 13, 2007 @ 5:02 pm
Nice, thanks for the tip - my Games list was getting very messy - now my OCD will be sated!
Comment by MrGilder — Nov 13, 2007 @ 5:18 pm
Too bad they omitted the option to sort games by name (what an odd omission). Why do I want to sort games by format (games come in different formats?)?
Comment by George — Nov 13, 2007 @ 5:33 pm
I hope they get the moving video thumbnails fixed, because I miss them so much that I cant use this feature
Comment by 82% — Nov 13, 2007 @ 5:40 pm
did this lake it to the online manual ?
Comment by Draxredd — Nov 13, 2007 @ 5:50 pm
A handy tip: You can rename entire folders of videos.
I had 120+ videos to rename so I simply ran through all my movie trailers as fast as I could, renaming to an album called ‘h’ (the default character when you start renaming).
Once I had all my movies renamed to album ‘h’, I renamed their album folder to Movie Trailers. Made it a fraction quicker than renaming to ‘Movie Trailers’ each time.
Music However… not doable as I’ve 35Gbs of music. It *really* needs the ability to add entire albums to playlists…
Comment by Tony Nibbles — Nov 13, 2007 @ 6:02 pm
Oh yeh and ThreeSpeech - can you find a fix for the Remote Start problem?
Basically when you enable the new Remote Start firmware 2.0 feature, the PS3 will turn itself on and off automatically, as it gets confused by pings from network items that are not PSPs trying to connect (thats an assumption).
There is some confusion in the community about this and a guide / details of how to prevent it would be great.
Comment by Tony Nibbles — Nov 13, 2007 @ 6:16 pm
Gooooo GAMESEY.COM!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Comment by Akz — Nov 13, 2007 @ 6:35 pm
It can be really repetitive. I just used one letter abbreviations on each file for whichever folder I wanted it to be. Then I renamed that folder into something longer. It takes less clicks to type in “t” and start than to force it to go trailers with predictive text and then just rename ‘t’ to trailers later.
Comment by tearsofash — Nov 13, 2007 @ 6:42 pm
@Tony Nibbles
There is the option to add an entire album to a playlist.
Go into the playlist editor, ie, from playlist, tringle, edit, then press left on the D-Pad, to go to your music, click ‘x’ on an album (or however else you have the music grouped)
If you the press the tringle once more, you can add an individual track or press up on the D-pad and select ‘Add all’
Good stuff Sony thanks, I can now create playlists of favourite artists.
Comment by Demibeard — Nov 13, 2007 @ 6:47 pm
Nice article - I’d already done it, but I know a lot of people hadn’t realised it was now possible. A couple of issues though (some mentioned above) :
1. Need the option to sort Games by Title. This is available for Videos and Photos so why not Games ?
2. Need animated thumbnails for Videos. The thumbnails for Games are still animated so why not Videos ?
3. Whilst highlighting a folder in Photos and Videos, the names of any other folders are still visible. However, when looking at a folder under Games, any other folders are not named.
Also the transparency of certain thumbnails doesn’t look too good against the grey folder background (ie. LocoRoco).
Apart from that it’s great to finally be able to organise things properly.
Comment by Topov81 — Nov 13, 2007 @ 7:01 pm
I love this feature, no complaints!
Comment by Youlikeyams — Nov 13, 2007 @ 7:11 pm
i know that all my movies dont have the animated thumbnail anymore…….nearly destroyed me that did,i loved that
movies i downloaded of the store,didnt have the animated thumbnails,but teh ones i copied from my PSP memory card did,now they dont
and when sorting into folders,i would of liked for me to name the folders and move them myself,although it is better this way than the old way..seems an oppertunity has been lost
Comment by metallicorphan — Nov 13, 2007 @ 9:30 pm
@12, 13: Did you know you can create the video thumbnail previews?
http://ps3explained.com/beginner/create-video-clip-previews/
Or is it that they stop working inside folders?
Comment by Flame — Nov 13, 2007 @ 11:02 pm
What the devil is a 2500 JB device. Is that some super byte?
Comment by Lean_go — Nov 13, 2007 @ 11:50 pm
here’s a video tutorial.
http://ps3mods.blogspot.com/2007/11/how-to-organize-your-games.html
Comment by ps3mods — Nov 14, 2007 @ 12:21 am
@ Lean_go - its a 250gb external HDD
Comment by Tom Eccles — Nov 14, 2007 @ 9:35 am
Nice feature but I think I prefer to see the video moving, maybe do this when my hard drive is busting at the seams.
Comment by BENNE77 — Nov 14, 2007 @ 10:09 am
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i know this has anything to do with this but
when i am online playing playstation network keeps disconnecting any 1 know how do sort it ?
do u think i should send it back to playstation?
Comment by ryan — Jan 13, 2009 @ 8:46 pm
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