Amarok problem

[Aaron Konstam]

On Fri, 2011-12-16 at 10:26 -0600, Steven Stern wrote: 
> 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

It would be nice if one could do that but Amorak does not give you that
choice. But I agree that the ordering is alpha numeric not numeric.
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