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A list of files in the player can be sorted by name and length.

Please add the option to sort by date.

When people have podcasts (in a series) that are not named consequently they may want to play them in the order they were released/downloaded.

Date doesn't seem to be a standard metadata field.

No, but file date would be fine for most people (I know it is for me)

I have made this a feature request
https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/11883