[Easytag-mailing] sort list by property --> creation date

["Colin Brace" <cb lim nl>]

Hi all,

First, I have to say: Easytag is a great program and it keeps getting better. Thanks to Jerôme et al for all the good work.

There is something about sorting by date which is confusing me. Using Grip, I have ripped a three-CD opera recording into a single directory, which now contains 71 audio files. My next step would be to sort by creation date (ascending) and then recalculate the track numbers so they run from 1 to 71. 

However, I notice that after I sort by date, they are out of sequence. The tracks from the first CD are ordered between the second and the third. 

Ok, there may be an explanation for this. After I ripped the second CD, I noticed there was a typo in the title of first CD, and the output files were written to a different directory by Grip. So I copied them to the correct directory with cp -p. Then I ripped the third. 

So now Easytag sorts them out of sequence. Yet if I go to a terminal window and type "ls -lrt", which sorts the 71 files by time, they are in correct sequence. Is Easytag using a different time-stamp criteria, like "Last access", for sorting? Why the discrepancy with the bash shell?

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  Colin Brace
  Amsterdam