[Tfug] xmms sort by track

[christopher]

hmm, that seems like a pretty basic thing. I've never
much cared for jukebox apps, but maybe I'll just have
to give one a try.

thanks any way ~ chris


On Sun, 5 Oct 2008 20:47:13 -0700
John Gruenenfelder <johng at as.arizona.edu> wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 05, 2008 at 05:32:49PM -0700, christopher wrote:
> >hey, is it really not possible to sort an album by
> >track number in xmms?
> >
> >I'm hoping I missed it in 'Preferences' because a
> >google search of 'xmms sort by track number' didn't
> >offer much. Thanks ~ Chris
> 
> I don't think this is possible.  The playlist in XMMS is extremely basic.  It
> doesn't do much with the extra metadata in files like track number, so you
> probably can't sort by it.
> 
> A possible workaround is to put the track number at the beginning of
> filenames.  Then you can tell XMMS to sort the playlist by path+filename and
> it will also become sorted by album and track order.  Not much of a workaround
> if you already have a lot of files, though.
> 
> I've begun naming my files this way not so much to appease XMMS but because
> other players (like my portable) have similar limitations.
> 
> 
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