Isn't this what track number ID3 tag is supposed to do? 2013/9/15 Ralf Gesellensetter <r...@gmx.de>: > Dear KDE developers, > > this issue is not caused by KDE itself, but I feel the KDE > team should make its own decision if this is a but at all: > > Preliminaries: If you create files in a freshly created > directory, most filesystems won't remember the order > those files had been created in. > > In 99.9% of all cases this might be sensible, because > each fs has its own underlying system, and usually > files are ordered by several well defined outer > constraints (like date, name etc.). > > Problem Case: Rip a CD to ext4, and apparently > "ls -f" will result in an arbitrary order, where > old school FAT file systems (especially mounted > on proprietary OS) would follow "first in, first out". > > If you later just copy your album to a mp3 player, > using dolphin or just cp, files are written in that > arbitrary order onto the vfat system of your player. > > And there are some players (e.g. iRiver E150) that > would not sort play order by themselves, but play > files one by one as written to the folder. > > So the assertion of mp3 players' firmware developers > seem to comply to (formerly unresolved?) premises > of microsoft fat developers, but collide with most > native linux file systems. > > Solution. If this is a design bug (missing assertion > for file systems in general), it should be addressed > to the kernel team. > > Otherwise, it should be discussed, if dolphin or > crusader could offer a workaround (feature > request: option to copy files in the same order > as files are displayed in source directory). > > Any comments on this? > Thanks, > regards > Ralf > > > >>> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe << >
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