K3B 0.10, Suse 9.0, tried running under both KDE 3.1.4 and Gnome 2.2.2. I realize this is not a K3B list but... When I try to build a Data Cd project in K3B, it insists on putting the files in alphabetical order. I want to specify the order. (I'm trying to burn an MP3 mix.) There must be an option setting somewhere to allow this but I can't find it. Does anyone know how to put files into a Data CD Project in arbitrary sequence? Thanks for any assistance. Don Henson
On Saturday 15 November 2003 16:30 pm, Donald Henson wrote:
K3B 0.10, Suse 9.0, tried running under both KDE 3.1.4 and Gnome 2.2.2. I realize this is not a K3B list but...
When I try to build a Data Cd project in K3B, it insists on putting the files in alphabetical order. I want to specify the order. (I'm trying to burn an MP3 mix.) There must be an option setting somewhere to allow this but I can't find it. Does anyone know how to put files into a Data CD Project in arbitrary sequence? Thanks for any assistance.
You could add a sequence number to the start of each filename: 01_track.mp3 02_track.mp3 ... The zero is necessary so you don't get the sequence 1, 10, 11, ... 19, 2, 20, ... HTH Dylan -- Sweet moderation Heart of this nation Desert us not We are between the wars - Billy Bragg
On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 10:23, Dylan wrote:
On Saturday 15 November 2003 16:30 pm, Donald Henson wrote:
K3B 0.10, Suse 9.0, tried running under both KDE 3.1.4 and Gnome 2.2.2. I realize this is not a K3B list but...
When I try to build a Data Cd project in K3B, it insists on putting the files in alphabetical order. I want to specify the order. (I'm trying to burn an MP3 mix.) There must be an option setting somewhere to allow this but I can't find it. Does anyone know how to put files into a Data CD Project in arbitrary sequence? Thanks for any assistance.
You could add a sequence number to the start of each filename:
01_track.mp3 02_track.mp3 ...
The zero is necessary so you don't get the sequence 1, 10, 11, ... 19, 2, 20, ...
HTH
Dylan
I'm sure that would work but we're talking about a library of over 2500 songs and changing the filenames at this point would mess up a whole bunch of other stuff. Good idea but not really practical. Don Henson
On Saturday 15 November 2003 18:26 pm, Donald Henson wrote:
I'm sure that would work but we're talking about a library of over 2500 songs and changing the filenames at this point would mess up a whole bunch of other stuff. Good idea but not really practical.
How about: Create a temporary working directory, make symlinks in that directory to the files in your playlist, rename the symlinks (krename can do it as a batch, and I believe the bash command mv can as well,) use the symlinks in K3B and away you go. Yeh, it's a cludge, but it'll work until you find a better way. Dylan -- Sweet moderation Heart of this nation Desert us not We are between the wars - Billy Bragg
On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 11:38, Dylan wrote:
On Saturday 15 November 2003 18:26 pm, Donald Henson wrote:
I'm sure that would work but we're talking about a library of over 2500 songs and changing the filenames at this point would mess up a whole bunch of other stuff. Good idea but not really practical.
How about:
Create a temporary working directory, make symlinks in that directory to the files in your playlist, rename the symlinks (krename can do it as a batch, and I believe the bash command mv can as well,) use the symlinks in K3B and away you go.
Yeh, it's a cludge, but it'll work until you find a better way.
Dylan
-- Sweet moderation Heart of this nation Desert us not We are between the wars - Billy Bragg
I couldn't find any info on changing filenames with changing numbers in man mv so I went to Krename. It looks like it'll do what I want but I couldn't for the life of me figure out how to create the template and where to put it. So where & how? Don Henson
On Saturday 15 November 2003 21:30 pm, Donald Henson wrote:
I couldn't find any info on changing filenames with changing numbers in man mv so I went to Krename. It looks like it'll do what I want but I couldn't for the life of me figure out how to create the template and where to put it. So where & how?
Sorry, try man rename
Don Henson
-- Sweet moderation Heart of this nation Desert us not We are between the wars - Billy Bragg
On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 15:28, Dylan wrote:
On Saturday 15 November 2003 21:30 pm, Donald Henson wrote:
I couldn't find any info on changing filenames with changing numbers in man mv so I went to Krename. It looks like it'll do what I want but I couldn't for the life of me figure out how to create the template and where to put it. So where & how?
Sorry, try man rename
That looks like it does what I want but I'm just too tired to figure out what man is telling me. I'll work on it some more later. Thanks for hanging in there with me. Don Henson
On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 20:26, Donald Henson wrote:
You could add a sequence number to the start of each filename:
01_track.mp3 02_track.mp3
I'm sure that would work but we're talking about a library of over 2500 songs and changing the filenames at this point would mess up a whole bunch of other stuff. Good idea but not really practical.
I think dylan meant rename the files in the project in k3b, not the files directly on your hard disc. Hans
On Saturday 15 November 2003 23:59 pm, H du Plooy wrote:
On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 20:26, Donald Henson wrote:
You could add a sequence number to the start of each filename:
01_track.mp3 02_track.mp3
I'm sure that would work but we're talking about a library of over 2500 songs and changing the filenames at this point would mess up a whole bunch of other stuff. Good idea but not really practical.
I think dylan meant rename the files in the project in k3b, not the files directly on your hard disc.
That did cross my mind, but since I don't use k3b myself I didn't know if it allowed it. Dylan -- Sweet moderation Heart of this nation Desert us not We are between the wars - Billy Bragg
On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 04:00, Dylan wrote:
On Saturday 15 November 2003 23:59 pm, H du Plooy wrote:
On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 20:26, Donald Henson wrote:
You could add a sequence number to the start of each filename:
01_track.mp3 02_track.mp3
I'm sure that would work but we're talking about a library of over 2500 songs and changing the filenames at this point would mess up a whole bunch of other stuff. Good idea but not really practical.
I think dylan meant rename the files in the project in k3b, not the files directly on your hard disc.
That did cross my mind, but since I don't use k3b myself I didn't know if it allowed it.
Dylan
As it turns out, K3B does allow that and while it's a reasonable workaround, the problem really should be resolved in K3B itself. I'm awaiting a password so I can create a bug report not. Thanks to both of you. Don Henson
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