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

[Chris Green]

On Sun, Oct 11, 2020 at 08:20:30PM +0000, ghe2001 wrote:
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> On Sunday, October 11, 2020 1:30 PM, Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
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> > 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:
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> > > > Parole plays these in alphabetical title order
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> > > 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?
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> > Exactly the problem, although the filenames start with 01, 02, 03,
> > etc. Parole plays them in order of track title.
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> 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. 
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> 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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The track 'title' is *not* the same thing as the filename, that's the
issue basically.  There are various items of metadata for each
track/file which include track number, album name, track title,
artists, genre, etc.  I want to play tracks in track number order,
which just happens (because I named them that way) to be the same as
file name order.  Parole seems to only be able to play tracks in track
title order.

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Chris Green