Can one get Parole to play a tracks in track number order?

[ghe2001]

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On Sunday, October 11, 2020 1:30 PM, Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:

> Ralf Mardorf ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net wrote:
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> > On Sun, 11 Oct 2020 16:52:09 +0100, Chris Green wrote:
> >
> > > Parole plays these in alphabetical title order
> >
> > Assuming the file names do start with '0n - " then alphabetical as
> > well as lexical order should do the job. Seemingly it even ignores
> > lexical or alphabetical order. Does the software provide some random
> > play feature or something else, that might be activated?
>
> Exactly the problem, although the filenames start with 01, 02, 03,
> etc. Parole plays them in order of track title.

I had that problem with VLC, Python, and SoX.  They all process the tracks in ASCII-alphabetical order.  So I just renamed the tracks so they had titles that sorted in the order I wanted them to be processed.

If you want the order to be different at different times, you could make that happen with a small Python script with a list specifying the order you want -- and play them with SoX or equivalent.  Or select the order with several data structures with different orders, selected by $1.  It's not Parole any more, but you do have some control over the order played.

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Glenn English
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