Can anyone answer a VLC player question?

[fohat.digs]

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?

[tp4tissue]

Use foobar2000 for music

[suicidal_orange]

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.

Hopefully the Windows version is very similar to the Linux one or this may be gibberish

[gipetto]

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.

[yui]

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.

i love that now that is pretty much universal computer language, all major OS now including bash makes it much easier, still not sure that many windows users even know about cli and terminals but nice to have

[Sintpinty]

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.

uugh

[fohat.digs]

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.