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Hello,

This will be very straight forward but it's defeated me so far.

How do you load VLC such that it loads the files in order? It plays the files in the order that they are loaded ok, the first one plays followed by the second. But it doesn't load them in order.

If I drag and drop an albums worth of songs into VLC they end up ordered randomly in the playlist. I can't find any option for this.

Cheers.

When dragged and dropped, VLC just takes the order it gets from the windowing system / the source application. If it's not provided in order, there is no way for VLC to guess what the order was...

If you just tell VLC to open a directory, then you'll get the lexical order. If you want a specific order, create a playlist file.

Hi Remi,

Thanks for that. If I use the native VLC open folder option the files load in sequence.

I'm still a bit confused though. The files are named such that windows collation will order them the same as the meta data. ie they are named "album-song01", "album-song02" and so on. So they should load in order anyway. I guess it must be a Windows "feature".

Thanks again Remi.