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StupendousMan - 05 Jun 2005 06:03 GMT

I am a bit confused. I just upgraded to WMP9 specifically for the 'auto
playlist' functionality. I highlight a few files and drag them into the
WMP window, and they are automatically added to the now playing list.
Great.

Here's the problem. The files I highlighted are in a specific order,
for obvious reasons. However, they seem to be added to the play list in
random order. Is that correct? I can click and drag them to re order
them, but I've already ordered the files.

Is there a setting or something I am missing?

R

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GD - 05 Jun 2005 20:50 GMT

Please see my post from yesterday "Playlist order workaround". Seems to be a
bug.

>I am a bit confused. I just upgraded to WMP9 specifically for the 'auto
> playlist' functionality. I highlight a few files and drag them into the
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> R

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Jack - 19 Jan 2006 05:54 GMT

I can not locate your post, would you mind posting the workaround again?

> Please see my post from yesterday "Playlist order workaround". Seems to be a
> bug.
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zachd [ms] - 08 Jun 2005 00:30 GMT

The shell is just handing off a data blob list of files to WMP - it's not
necessarily ordering the files in any particular fashion when it hands off
to WMP, which is why you'd see this.

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>I am a bit confused. I just upgraded to WMP9 specifically for the 'auto
> playlist' functionality. I highlight a few files and drag them into the
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> R

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StupendousMan - 10 Jun 2005 01:48 GMT

Are you sure? In general, the file explorer will attach a list of
files to the clipboard in the order they were presented. So when you
retrieve them from the clipboard, you merely have to get them in thier
natural order.

It's been a very long time since I wrote code for windows, but I seem to
recall order being preserved in all drag/drop/cut/copy/paste operations.

R

> The shell is just handing off a data blob list of files to WMP - it's not
> necessarily ordering the files in any particular fashion when it hands off
> to WMP, which is why you'd see this.

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