Hei Brian

Brian Ferguson wrote:
> iTunes does have some strange attributes. As does sorting by Apple.
> Is there a difference to the 'Sort Order' when done form the Music
  [full list] folder compared to doing it through a Playlist?

No, the results are the same no matter from where I take the information.

> My guess is that this comparison can be checked using the
> Playlist  sort by Number and then selecting from the Music
> folder sorted by Artist - Cliff Richard.
> But I'm guessing too.

As written it's the same results no matter if I copy from the playlists 
(m3u or m4a type) or from the music folders, and it's also the same no 
matter which player I use - iTunes, Audion X, Cog or VLC.

> I see that you use OpenOffice, Erik. Try sorting there in its
> Spreadsheet mode and copy to Nisus Writer Pro.

I could do so, but it will be 'double-work', so I copy directly to NWP, 
highlight the påasted and use the sorting commands I've given to 'Sort 
by'. I've just finished cataloging Cliff Richard now.... Huh! it ended 
up with a huge file both with some images and lots of text - size apprx. 
50mb... Saved as both RTF and PDF, so I can have the information with me 
on an USB stick always to be able to see what I have and what I'm 
missing.:-)

Btw. the newly released OpenOffice 3.2.1 is the best ever OOo, and it 
will now fully replace any MSOffice on all my machines except one, where 
it will be alongside with MSO2008.

Cheers, Erik Richard

> On 08/06/2010, at 3:28 AM, Erik Richard Sørensen wrote:
>> Hello every ni's'e guy.:-)
>>
>> Well, I've begun to make what I should have done little by
>> little... I have started to katalog all of my CDs and LPs artist by
>> artist - just making one list from every artist with titles of the
>> albums and track titles... The LPs of course I have to type in
>> fully manually, but the CDs are quite a lot easier. Here it's just
>> to put in the disc and open it in iTunes or similar application and
>> then copy all titles into the list.
>>
>> And it's here the problem occors... Sometimes when I just paste
>> the copied list into NWP, the sorting order is totally out of order
>> so to speak, sometimes it's as it should be. - An example from one
>> of my favorit artists - Cliff Richard - "Cliff Sings" from 1958...
>>
>> 01 Apron Strings
>> 02 My Babe
>> 03 Down The Line
>> 04 I Got A Feeling
>> 05 Jet Black
>> 06 Baby I Don't Care
>> 07 Donna
>> 08 Move It
>> 09 Ready Teddy
>> 10 Too Much
>> 11 Don't Bug Me Baby
>> 12 Driftin'
>> 13 That'll Be The Day
>> 14 Be-Bop-A-Lula
>> 15 Danny
>> 16 Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On
>>
>> Sometimes such a pasted list shows up as this
>>
>> 02 My Babe
>> 03 Down The Line
>> 04 I Got A Feeling
>> 05 Jet Black
>> 06 Baby I Don't Care
>> 07 Donna
>> 08 Move It
>> 09 Ready Teddy
>> 10 Too Much
>> 11 Don't Bug Me Baby
>> 12 Driftin'
>> 13 That'll Be The Day
>> 14 Be-Bop-A-Lula
>> 15 Danny
>> 16 Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On
>> 01 Apron Strings
>>
>> I.e. the '01' will occor at the buttom of the list...
>>
>> Is this a 'bug' in NWP or in iTunes? - I've noticed many
>> times that copying information from iTunes lists most of
>> the time will copy in random order or directly in reverse
>> order with highest number first and lowest number last...
>>
>> OK, it's easy to sorten out by selecting the paragraph and
>> then use a command key - COM+AS for ascending and COM+DS for
>> descending sort order... But I wonder if others have noticed
>> something similar?

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