On Monday 07 May 2007 23:12:50 Ryo Furue wrote: > Hi Pawel, > > I have only a partial solution to your question. > > | Is it possible to tell Konqueror to copy files in sorted order. Why? > | When I copy directory with some mp3 files to my mp3 player I want > | them be ordered by name, because my mp3 player gets them in the > | order saved in filesystem. > > I think you misunderstand the situation. > Files aren't ordered. This is not completely true (as you mention in passing). The underlying filesystem does provide directory entries in a specific order. Most filesystems don't vary this order unless a directory entry is added or removed. However, no file system I know of returns them in any order that means much to a user. In particular reiserfs stores a directory as a hash table, so it returns entries in hash order; a very enigmatic order to say the least. > If your mp3 files are presented in a particular order in your mp3 > player, therefore, it is your mp3 player that is presenting the > order, not the underlying filesystem. Not true. In the absence of any overriding logic, the filesystem will decide what order files are presented in. In particular, my iRiver presents the audio files in exactly the order the filesystem stores the entries. "Luckily" it's a very simple filesystem, so the entries are stored in the order they are created. (I'm not sure if directory entries get reused when files are deleted.) > I don't know much about multimedia players, so the following > is mostly my guess: The kind of ordering you want in a multimedia > player is often called a "playlist". So, I guess that what you > need is to find out how to copy your playlist along with > your mp3 files. I guess such a thing depends on your mp3 player. The OP's player might support playlists created externally. My iRiver does not, although it does allow you to build playlists using its interface (which sucks for building playlists). I find it much easier to simply transfer my files over in a specific order when desired, but I generally just play my collection on randomize. I would be nice to have an option in konqueror to transfer files in the order they were selected or the order they are listed in the UI. I've not seen such a feature, yet, and I'm not sure how best to present it to the user. Under normal circumstances neither option would be much of a performance hit, although filesystem order is more likely to take advantage of readahead and FS cache. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss03@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org/ \_/
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