Posted by fred-bloggs on 02/19/06 10:33

fredduc@gmail.com wrote in news:1140341593.829930.300760
@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:

> Hi all,
>
>
> I have a little question about sorting music in winamp: if the filename
> of a mp3-song doesn't has a number in it's name (for example:
> "song.mp3" and not "01-song.mp3"), but in the ID3-tag (v1 or v2) the
> track number IS saved, how can winamp then sort these files? If I just
> right click on a directory, it is always alphabetically sorted... I
> looked at all the options, but can't find a way to get my files sorted
> based on this tag. My only solution is to manually rename my files, but
> that is a hell of a job, and then sort them by filename... So I guess I
> have a wrong a version of winamp, or a missing plugin... How to use
> these tags?
>

You should be using WinAmp 5.13, previous versions have security
problems.

If you are using the Classic skin at the bottom of the playlist is the
MISC button which provides sort-list. The options are sort by title, by
filename or by path-and-filename. You want sort by title but you need to
get the title in the correct format.

In options-preferences (Control-P), general prefs, titles.
Read metadata on loading.
Use advanced title fomatting.
[%artist%-%album%-%tracknumber%-%title%]
would sort each album in track order.
For more details and complex formatting click help.

HTH

--
fred

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