Amarok problem
Steven Stern
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Fri Dec 16 16:26:19 UTC 2011
On 12/16/2011 09:36 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-12-16 at 00:54 +0100, Brendan Jones wrote:
>> On 12/15/2011 10:16 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote:
>>> The Linux Journal's picks for favorite software has come out.
>>> The favorite Audio Player so I decided to try it. But something strange
>>> happens. In the playlist track 10 and 11 comes between track 1 and 2.
>>> Track 10 and 11 appear also in their proper place in the playlist.
>>>
>>> What can one do to straighten this out?
>>
>> Sounds like the metadata for the file is incorrect. Amorok is sorting
>> the filename (or incorrect title) alpha numerically. Meaning:
>>
>> 1 - first
>> 11 - second
>> 12 - third
>> 2 - fourth
>
> I asked for the sorting by track number. Why did that not work?
> How does one get the sorting to be numeric?
> Where does the metadata come from anyway?
Try editing the track numbers so they're "01", "02", etc. IIRC, the
field is sorted as if it were a string, not a number.
--
-- Steve
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