Hi:

I have ext2 in my disk. In directory path/ I have a set of .wav files. Together they integrate a musical work. So, if I make an audio CD of them, they must be written into the CD in a certain order.

But doing 'ls -U' on dir path/ I notice they're not in the correct order. When using k3b to make the CD, then drag'n drop 'path/' is not an option. The files in path/ must now be dragged one by one to respect order.

The .wav files were generated by a shell script in the correct order. But of course each file gets written in the first "hole" the OS finds and most probably the resulting physical order (the order in which ls -U lists them) will not be the same. If I create a new dir and run the script in this dir, the order is not warranted to be the correct one. Is there a way out of this?

K3B knows nothing about the physical order on the disk. If your .wav-files are named in the right order, for example Track_01.wav, Track_02.wav, ..., K3B uses this order for sorting the files. You can also put all the files you want to have on the CD at once into K3B's project window and sort them manually with drag&drop in there.

Sometimes I think you just think too complicated.

Well, if that is what k3b does, to follow lexicographical order, this is good news for me. I was generating them with these names: track_1, track_2, ..., track_10,... I shall now do it this way: track_01, track_02, ..., track_10,... Thanks a lot.

Hi,

lexicographical order should read lexicographical order as set by your locale setting

Looking at the file names you use, the above is probably not appropriate for your above question but it does show that you don't have that much control on how and where files are written.

Here's a relevant example:

Thanks.