Primary language of a song

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<a href="/ja/translator/stefano8" class="userpopupinfo" rel="user1450734">Stefano8 <div class="editor_icon" title="Editor" ></div></a>
登録日: 29.03.2020
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Is there any way to force a specific order for the languages of a multi-language song?
Right now, when selecting new languages in the dedicated box, they are set in a predetermined order.
Instead, they should be listed in a user-specified order, depending on the actual content of the song

For example:
https://lyricstranslate.com/en/walter-valdi-il-gallo-e-morto-lyrics.html
This should definitely have "Italian" as the first language in the list

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登録日: 05.04.2012

Honestly, never noticed it so far. I thought they were listed alphabetically, but that isn't the case in that song, so I don't know the criteria for it.

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<a href="/ja/translator/stefano8" class="userpopupinfo" rel="user1450734">Stefano8 <div class="editor_icon" title="Editor" ></div></a>
登録日: 29.03.2020

It follows the same order as in the dropdown menu.
In my case it is: English, Italian, Lombard (the favorites), then all the others in alphabetical order.
I don't know why the favorites follow that order (maybe it's just alphabetical), because I have only Italian as "native" (it would be logical to have it listed before the "fluent" ones).
Anyway, the order in the "favorites" is not really relevant to me.
I think the order should be customizable for every song; there is no single order (alphabetical, natives-first, favorites-first, or else) that is appropriate in all cases.

EDIT: the "other" languages are actually divided into "popular" and "more". Anyway, this doesn't change much what was said above.

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<a href="/ja/translator/fantasy" class="userpopupinfo" rel="user1277894">Fantasy </a>
登録日: 16.02.2016

One problem with the 'forced' order is when left-to-right and right-to-left languages are used. For instance, a song could be in Spanish, with a verse in Persian. But since 'p' is prior to 's' alphabetically, the text will be aligned right to left.

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<a href="/ja/translator/kevin-rainbow" class="userpopupinfo" rel="user1454922">Kevin Rainbow </a>
登録日: 03.05.2020

Yea, a primary language for an artist would be a good idea, I think.
Russian songs should naturally be prioritized for artists who primarily sing in Russian (likewise Italian songs for artists who primarily sing in Italian, etc). Right now if a Russian singer only sang one English song and its the least known song by him/her, it will still automatically show up at the top of the list of his/her lyrics. It would be nice to be able to set "Russian" as the primary language and make the English song show up at the bottom instead.