Listing of audio in VLAN iPad version

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Listing of audio in VLAN iPad version

Postby johndoejnr » 20 Jun 2016 07:31

I needed to list audio pieces in VLAN to make sure they're all in the correct order.

I had them in iCloud as -

1.
2.
3.
4.
etc etc

But then when I imported them into iPad VLAN, they came out as the following -

1.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.
2.
20.
21.
22.
etc etc

Can you please tell me how to list audio pieces in their correct order so that I can play them one after the other when needed? Cheers

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Re: Listing of audio in VLAN iPad version

Postby fkuehne » 20 Jun 2016 11:33

Ouch, interesting. Do your audio files include metadata defining the track number or does VLC need to rely on the naming of the files?
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Re: Listing of audio in VLAN iPad version

Postby cinephile » 20 Jun 2016 22:08

I had a somewhat similar issue myself, but I just simply imported them one by one in the correct order. I know this sounds tedious, but it's the only help I can offer

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Re: Listing of audio in VLAN iPad version

Postby ajmas » 21 Jun 2016 20:34

Could try adding zeros in front, such that the numbers are all the same length? What I suspect is happening here is that a alphabetical sort order is done (typical of most sort algorithms), rather than a 'natural sort order'.

For your numbers:

001
002
012
134

Just make sure it is padded according to the largest value.
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