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BobbR
Channel Surfer
4 years ago
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Photo Playback Sequence Not Same as on USB Thumb Drive

I have an older Roku 3 device (Roku 4000) with a USB port with which I'm trying to play photos using the Roku Media Player.  Strangely, the sequence/order of images shown in the RMP is NOT the same a...
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  • AvsGunnar's avatar
    AvsGunnar
    4 years ago

    BobbR 

    Might not help, but in the folder options (press *), you should see "Sort".  Try changing from default to A>Z.

    Normally, I find all content "within" a folder will play correctly and numerically.  However, if the content is outside of a folder, then the RMP seems to get confused. (10 will play after 1 but before 2).  It just kind of sees all the 1's and groups them together.

     

AvsGunnar's avatar
AvsGunnar
Community Streaming Expert
4 years ago

BobbR 

Might not help, but in the folder options (press *), you should see "Sort".  Try changing from default to A>Z.

Normally, I find all content "within" a folder will play correctly and numerically.  However, if the content is outside of a folder, then the RMP seems to get confused. (10 will play after 1 but before 2).  It just kind of sees all the 1's and groups them together.

 

  • renojim's avatar
    renojim
    Community Streaming Expert
    4 years ago

    Alphabetically "10" comes before 2x (where x is anything).  In general you should use 2 or three digits with leading zeros if you want to number your items (e.g., 001 - some item, 002 - some other item, etc.)  Alphabetically 0 comes before every other number.

    • Strega's avatar
      Strega
      Roku Guru
      4 years ago

      I remember when smart numerical sorting (so you no longer had to use 001, 002 etc) appeared in some release of Windows and some people thought it was an insane thing to do  - with one of the reasons being that so many other platforms did not do that.

      • BobbR's avatar
        BobbR
        Channel Surfer
        4 years ago

        Thanks for your input!  I appreciate it.

    • BobbR's avatar
      BobbR
      Channel Surfer
      4 years ago

      Thanks for the advice!  I've implemented some of the suggestions I've received thus far from you and some other Roku community members, and they're all working to address my issues.

      THANK  YOU!

  • BobbR's avatar
    BobbR
    Channel Surfer
    4 years ago

    Thanks for your quick response to my question!  I did, indeed, change the sort option to "A-Z," and that seemed to work!  However, I did not do that before renaming the files within the folder, so I can't be certain that was the actual reason the changed sort option alone solved my issue.  When I changed the sort option to "A-Z," RMP did show the files in alphabetical order, even before a slideshow playback was initiated...something that did not happen prior to the sort order change.  That was a pretty good hint that that was the culprit.  I'm going to experiment with some other photos, but that certainly helped!

    THANK YOU!