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Re: DLNA client app that will play in track order

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Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> wrote:
> Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> wrote:
> > 
> > > I did originally ask for DLNA compatible because I thought it was the
> > > only show in town really but file sharing really makes much more sense
> > > in my situation (a home LAN).
> > 
> >   A point of warning there: When I use VLC in SMB mode (instead of DLNA
> > mode), the tracks in a folder (directory :-)) *are* (alphabetically)
> > sorted, i.e. *not* what you want. That's rather stupid, because the file
> > names of the tracks are '01 <title>.mp3', '02 <title>.mp3', etc., so an
> > alpha*numeric* sort would work just fine.
> > 
> Well that's not what I'm seeing in VLC for Android.  I've resigned
> myself to using SMB networking and have added my music directory on
> the server to the SMB sharing.  The tracks show up in alphabetical
> order of file name in VLC on Android which, with the track number as
> the start of the filename works OK.

  You're right, I'm seeing that as well. It was an error on my part.
Apparently I tried the 'By Folder' mode of the DLNA server, instead of
the SMB server. If I use the SMB server, I see the - desired - behaviour
you described.

> So I have what I want basically.  :-)  (except for a few directories
> where the file name wasn't started with the track number but I can fix
> that)

  Good to hear!

> By the way in VLC on Linux (and maybe on Windows, not sure) you can
> select the sort order of tracks in a directory by right clicking on
> the window showing the list of tracks.  It took me a while to find
> this when I first ran VLC on my Linux systems.

  Thanks. If I need/want to use the Windows version, I'll have a look at
it.

  FWIW, after trying several other programs, I use MusicBee (on Windows)
as my music manager/player, but in this thread also I learned about the
SMB/DLNA capabilities of (the Android version of) VLC, so maybe I'll
have another look at VLC.

  (AFAIC,) EOT.

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DLNA client app that will play in track order Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> - 2016-08-14 13:34 +0100
  Re: DLNA client app that will play in track order RVG <not.here@themoment.invalid.org> - 2016-08-15 15:29 +0200
    Re: DLNA client app that will play in track order Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> - 2016-08-15 18:59 +0100
      Re: DLNA client app that will play in track order RVG <not.here@themoment.invalid.org> - 2016-08-29 17:07 +0200
    Re: DLNA client app that will play in track order Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> - 2016-08-15 19:14 +0100
      Re: DLNA client app that will play in track order Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> - 2016-08-15 19:57 +0100
      Re: DLNA client app that will play in track order Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2016-08-15 19:44 +0000
        Re: DLNA client app that will play in track order Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> - 2016-08-16 09:24 +0100
          Re: DLNA client app that will play in track order Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2016-08-16 19:17 +0000
            Re: DLNA client app that will play in track order Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> - 2016-08-17 09:59 +0100
              Re: DLNA client app that will play in track order Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2016-08-17 19:55 +0000
                Re: DLNA client app that will play in track order Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> - 2016-08-17 21:48 +0100
                Re: DLNA client app that will play in track order Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2016-08-18 18:43 +0000

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