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Offline fohat.digs

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Can anyone answer a VLC player question?
« on: Thu, 13 February 2020, 10:01:01 »
I use VLC Media Player which I generally like, but how do you make songs play in numerical order?

For example, if I want to listen to "Revolver" by the Beatles and the songs are in the order
01 Taxman
02 Eleanor Rigby
etc

it seems that VLC always insists on playing them in reverse order. I have been through this many times, attempting recommendations from so-called experts that never work.

There does not seem to be a default "Sort by" in Audio-Playlist-Tools-Preferences, and even right-clicking and selecting "Sort by Numerical Ascending" etc each time never seems to work. Am I missing something?
"Starting in 2011, the deficits again started to shrink. During Obama’s term  the deficit was reduced by $900 Billion  before finally in 2015 the GOP managed to wrangle a “reconciliation” bill out of Obama where he again cut corporate taxes, as well as made permanent some of George W. Bush’s original tax cuts. This is the year everything reversed. Before this, under Clinton, Bush and Obama the deficit in almost every year was gradually decreasing. The balance we had of taxes and the economy was bringing the deficit down, the money coming in was slowly catching up with the money going out until 2015. Trump’s subsequent tax cut has continued the new trend even after the rest of Bush’s cuts have since expired. Obama had an average GDP of 2.3%, with 11.6 million jobs created and unemployment peaking at 10% in 2009, then falling to 4.3% in 2016. If we had continued on that downward deficit track, we would have again reached balance and another surplus in 2017-2018.
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Re: Can anyone answer a VLC player question?
« Reply #2 on: Thu, 13 February 2020, 18:02:36 »
Are your files tagged or do the 'Title's have a file extension (.something) at the end?  If they are not tagged sorting by Track Number won't work but you could sort by URI (path and filename) instead.  Or you could tag the files using something like EasyTAG.

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Re: Can anyone answer a VLC player question?
« Reply #3 on: Fri, 14 February 2020, 04:11:03 »
I do a playlist
ls *mp3 | cat > ./playlist.m3u

sometimes it will put two digit songs at the start and the list has to be manually edited.

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Re: Can anyone answer a VLC player question?
« Reply #4 on: Fri, 14 February 2020, 04:25:40 »
I do a playlist
ls *mp3 | cat > ./playlist.m3u

sometimes it will put two digit songs at the start and the list has to be manually edited.

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Re: Can anyone answer a VLC player question?
« Reply #5 on: Fri, 14 February 2020, 05:29:37 »
I do a playlist
ls *mp3 | cat > ./playlist.m3u

sometimes it will put two digit songs at the start and the list has to be manually edited.

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Re: Can anyone answer a VLC player question?
« Reply #6 on: Fri, 14 February 2020, 07:26:51 »
Thanks, but I will work around some other way.

That said, I loathe all things Apple and keep all my music as straight clean MP3 files without any sort of DRM in a straight conventional directory tree structure.
"Starting in 2011, the deficits again started to shrink. During Obama’s term  the deficit was reduced by $900 Billion  before finally in 2015 the GOP managed to wrangle a “reconciliation” bill out of Obama where he again cut corporate taxes, as well as made permanent some of George W. Bush’s original tax cuts. This is the year everything reversed. Before this, under Clinton, Bush and Obama the deficit in almost every year was gradually decreasing. The balance we had of taxes and the economy was bringing the deficit down, the money coming in was slowly catching up with the money going out until 2015. Trump’s subsequent tax cut has continued the new trend even after the rest of Bush’s cuts have since expired. Obama had an average GDP of 2.3%, with 11.6 million jobs created and unemployment peaking at 10% in 2009, then falling to 4.3% in 2016. If we had continued on that downward deficit track, we would have again reached balance and another surplus in 2017-2018.
– Frank V Walton 2025-07-01