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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: (not only dolphin): Directory doesn't behave as Queue (FIFO)
From:       Daniel Nicoletti <dantti12 () gmail ! com>
Date:       2013-09-16 0:07:51
Message-ID: CACo8zOfbHjZU-L2SAc17k7og97_PWUELqFVoqJnKBYS_cZxFVQ () mail ! gmail ! com
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Isn't this what track number ID3 tag
is supposed to do?

2013/9/15 Ralf Gesellensetter <rgx@gmx.de>:
> Dear KDE developers,
>
> this issue is not caused by KDE itself, but I feel the KDE
> team should make its own decision if this is a but at all:
>
> Preliminaries: If you create files in a freshly created
> directory, most filesystems won't remember the order
> those files had been created in.
>
> In 99.9% of all cases this might be sensible, because
> each fs has its own underlying system, and usually
> files are ordered by several well defined outer
> constraints (like date, name etc.).
>
> Problem Case: Rip a CD to ext4, and apparently
> "ls -f" will result in an arbitrary order, where
> old school FAT file systems (especially mounted
> on proprietary OS) would follow "first in, first out".
>
> If you later just copy your album to a mp3 player,
> using dolphin or just cp, files are written in that
> arbitrary order onto the vfat system of your player.
>
> And there are some players (e.g. iRiver E150) that
> would not sort play order by themselves, but play
> files one by one as written to the folder.
>
> So the assertion of mp3 players' firmware developers
> seem to comply to (formerly unresolved?) premises
> of microsoft fat developers, but collide with most
> native linux file systems.
>
> Solution. If this is a design bug (missing assertion
> for file systems in general), it should be addressed
> to the kernel team.
>
> Otherwise, it should be discussed, if dolphin or
> crusader could offer a workaround (feature
> request: option to copy files in the same order
> as files are displayed in source directory).
>
> Any comments on this?
> Thanks,
> regards
> Ralf
>
>
>
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