Michael Sparmann <theseven_at_gmx.net> writes:
> [Paul Louden:]

>> The nice thing about "NN - Title.mp3" is that also works for filename
>> sorting, so doesn't require track number guessing.
>
> That's only true for numbers padded with leading zeroes, right?

If there's one convention that holds universally across all random album
downloads off the Internet, it's that within an album, the filenames
typically are sorted alphanumerically specifically to establish a track
order. Typically, the track number is part of the filename and
establishes that order, which often requires leading zeros.

But whether said filename component actually has leading zeros, and
where it appears in the filename, is hard to detect heuristically when
looking at a single file or at a random collection of files. (Assuming
that each directory holds only a single album is unsafe.)

sideral
Received on 2011-05-31