Posted by Curtis on 11/15/73 11:31

'twas 7 Nov 2005 13:07:31 -0800, when "Alexander"
<dowlandnewsgroups@yahoo.com> was compelled by mysterious forces of
nature to write:

>Hi all,
>
>I just discovered the nice feature of tag-it software and spent about 4
>hours labelling my approx. 60 GBs of mp3 music today. Grand! I´m
>happy!
>
>What I am NOT happy about is this:
>
>Why does Winamp still doesn´t put the files in the right order, if I
>mark all songs from an album and hit the "enter" key? The files are
>named properly in the Windows explorer and now also on the meta-tag,
>yet Winamp won´t play them in the right order and I still have to sort
>them out manually.
>What can I do? I didn´t find anything in the settings that would fix
>this.
>
It's done this as long as I can remember. Dragging the songs or the
folder from Windows Explorer scrambles the order, but opening files
from within Winamp will play in the correct order.
>
>2nd question - similar topic:
>I use a simple and quite small mp3-player while I run my errands, and
>whenever I drag new music into an existing folder, it gets sorted
>ANYwhere, but never right at the beginning or at the end of the already
>existing collection of songs in there.
>Does anybody know which "logic" these small mp3-players use? I suppose
>they´re not much different from a USB stick?
>
Guessing that it's just keeping the standard Windows alphabetical file
order.

>Thanks for the help and please forgive me for posting something that
>has probably been dealt with already.
>
>Alex

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