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Interpret numbers when sorting; alternate submenu wording.

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dunno:
currently the submenus are
As Digits
As whole numbers

might I suggest the following instead;
With leading zero
No leading zero

Most tag applications have "leading zero" as the descriptor in options for respective "Numeric file sorting" settings, and it is far more descriptive than "As digits", or "Whole numbers"

Love this option, wish it had been done years ago, but got to keep busy whilst retired and retagging my collection without leading zeros is one way  ;D

Many thanks.

AlexP:
Have a look through the IRC logs to see the argument that has raged over many many days about the naming of this option...

dunno:

--- Quote from: BigBambi on March 02, 2009, 03:43:23 AM ---Have a look through the IRC logs to see the argument that has raged over many many days about the naming of this option...

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Indeed...

But what do you think, "With leading zero; No leading zero", more descriptive or not for "Numeric file order" ?.

Llorean:
It's not just about leading zeroes. In fact, leading zeroes don't actually factor into it at all.

1, 10, 2, 20, 3, 30 vs 1, 2, 3, 10, 20, 30. Notice a complete lack of leading zeros in those two lists of numbers? Yet they're one demonstration of the two different ways the algorithm sorts.

It would be completely misleading to name it your way.

dunno:

--- Quote from: Llorean on March 02, 2009, 09:23:24 AM ---It's not just about leading zeroes. In fact, leading zeroes don't actually factor into it at all.

1, 10, 2, 20, 3, 30 vs 1, 2, 3, 10, 20, 30. Notice a complete lack of leading zeros in those two lists of numbers? Yet they're one demonstration of the two different ways the algorithm sorts.

It would be completely misleading to name it your way.

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Hello Paul,
on the contrary, it's all about leading zeros, prior to this option if you wanted your tracks displayed in numerical file order in rockbox then tracks 1 through to 9 HAD to have a leading zero because, as you pointed out a long time ago thats how proper OS's display it, and windows way of displaying a numeric file list sequentially without leading zeros was/is incorrect, Linux rules and all that...
I have no idea of how ASCI sort algorithms are supposed to work, what I do know is that rockbox forced me to add leading zeros to my music collection so that the files would be numerically sorted, now I can go back to windows way of numbering my music without leading zeros.

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