Sounds like it sorts them according to FID.

Sounds like a good guess. If you append an album, I think it should play that appended album in album order, but now that I think about it, I understand why it goes by FID. Because when you do a search, it doesn't pay attention to playlists. It finds everything with that album name, but it has no idea that those songs are all in the same playlist and have a specific order that you want them to follow. So, although I still think it's worth reporting as a bug, I think it probably could be better classified as "lack of a feature" rather than a bug.

If you drag a folder full of songs with sequential filenames, in addition to sorting them correctly in terms of playlist position, does emplode also give them FID's in the same order? Or is it the random Windows thing again?

It's the random Empeg thing. If you never delete a FID, then they always increment. But as soon as you start deleting and re-adding FIDs, then the deleted ones get re-used and you start getting sequential items with non-sequential FIDs. If you think about it, it's quite similar to the reasons that Windows files are sometimes out of order in their folders.

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Tony Fabris