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Subject: Re: Sort files after ID3 track number
From: TP Diffenbach (rockbox_at_diffenbach.org)
Date: 2003-04-22

Quoting Chris Holt <amiga2k_at_cox.net>:

> On Tue, 22 Apr 2003 10:20:28 -0400, NoDbt41_at_aol.com wrote:
> >i agree, i would also like to see a way to organize tracks in a
> >directory by the id3 track number
>
> If you simply add the track number as the first part of the
> filename, it
> adds only two or three characters to the name, AND you get the
> advantage
> of track order listing on both the PC and the player.
>

I've written a patch to remove, from the directory listing, some arbitarry prefix -- such as a track number -- from the DISPLAYED filename.

For example, given a file name
01- Trackname.mp3
what would be displayed is:
Trackname.mp3

The patch allows specifying the charcter class (alpha, numeric, alphanumeric, punctuation, space) of the character to break on, and whether to display starting from the breaking character or the next character. In the example above, the breaking character class would be space, and the display would start after the first space.

The patch is complete excpet for the code to save the setting; when that's added I'll submit the patch.

Using this patch, you can name the file with a leading track number, for sorting purposes, and never have to see that track number displayed. Will this achieve what you want? 

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