From: David Newhook <d_newhook_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 11:42:03 -0000

You're right Jorg, it's just my library was made a long time ago from my
entire record collection and I didn't configure musicmatch to put the
tracknumbers at the front of the filename. I never needed to as musicmatch
could sort by the tracknum in the id3 info tags.

I know rockbox can get at this information (when you browse the id3 tags).
How difficult would it be to sort by info in the ID3 tags? I imagine the
sorting works at the filesystem level (fat32) rather than reading the tag
information of the mp3s.

I imagine a module that scans the id3 tags of all the mp3s in a directory
and then plays them in order wouldn't be very fast/efficient.

Maybe a module that does the above and generates a playlist file for you?
Then you can just select the playlist. I think that would be cool!

----- Original Message -----
From: "[IDC]Dragon" <idc-dragon_at_gmx.de>
To: "Rockbox development" <rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se>
Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 10:44 AM
Subject: Re: Play songs by tracknum


> > I just wanted to know if anyone knows how to, or would like to be able
to,
> > play a directory of tunes sorted by artist, tracknum then title.
> >
> > I haven't found a way to do this yet. I know this can be achieved with
> > playlists, but I haven't found a tool for compiling lists in the order I
> > want (any suggestions) and to be honest, I think generating all those
> > playlists for achieving a simple sort, would be overkill.
>
> I think most people organize their folders as artist/album/tracks.
>
> > Or maybe everyone simply enjoys listening to their album tracks in
> > alphabetical order?
>
> It's very common to have the tracknumber (as two digits) in the filename,
> either at the beginning or preceded by the (constant) artist/album info,
but in
> any case before the title name. So alphabetical sorting gives the correct
> order. I have rarely seen different, just the title name would be really
> inconvenient.
>
> Jörg
>
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