Q: How Do I Get My Winamp mp3 files To LOAD, In Order?
ok this one has irked me for years, i just figured the problem was between the file open dialog and how windows delivers the file manifest to applications -- the files come in physical order or something etc etc. either way it's been a pain selecting files and having the order jumbled in the playlist editor, only to re-sort them. it felt like more or less totally random, sometimes in order, sometimes starting halfway through the list, just generally annoying.
since winamp makes a great tool to audition files and build up playlists, i'm pretty keen on this working and it turns out there is fairly simple *feature* at hand - not a bug. in fact, winamp was probably designed with this in mind, and i just didn't get it how it worked. here's the deal, as posted (thank god) by another user...
"If you drag a group of say, 10 songs labled 1.mp3 - 10.mp3 into the playlist window, you would think that they would play in order...but the actual file that you clicked and dragged on will be first, example. 1-10 are highlighted, and you click on file #3 to drag the list in, well your playlist would be arranged 3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,1,2...so if you drag a list of files in the correct order into the playlist, always drag by the first file in the list that you want played.
that might be useless info, but it bugged the hell out of me for a while, so i figured i would share."
and there you have it !