Adding files to folder set to play through in order?

[Maestro232]

Hello,
I have a scheduled task to play one file a day from a folder in order. It works great. However, I need to add some files which will come earlier in the order based on file name. For example, let's say I have the following files in a folder...

2017-01.mp3
2017-02.mp3
2017-03.mp3
....
2017-99.mp3

When I set up the schedule it starts running through the folder and plays one file a day at a certain time. Now let's say that a couple months later I'm up to 2017-60.mp3 or so and I want to add the following files to the folder...

2016-01.mp3
2016-02.mp3
...
2016-99.mp3

What I would like the system to do is continue the next day by grabbing 2017-61.mp3 and keep going until the end, then when it gets to the last file in the folder, the next day it will start over at 2016-01.mp3

I am guessing that it probably works this way, but I can't really test it since we have a live station. Can anyone verify that this is how it will work? I'm basically wanting to make sure that the command to run through a folder in order will just use whatever is the next file based on filename, irregardless of when the file showed up in the folder.

Thanks for the help.

 

[djsoft]

If you change folder contents by adding or removing the files, it will start from the first file when played next time.

 

[Maestro232]

Thank you. I'm really glad I asked. So I guess we just have to time when we add to the folder. It's not the end of the world.

Maybe something to consider as a future change is to use a different mechanism for determining the next file to play...like a filename comparison with the previously played file at the time the schedule runs.

 

[djsoft]

Maybe something to consider as a future change is to use a different mechanism for determining the next file to play...like a filename comparison with the previously played file at the time the schedule runs.

Yes, I think we'll make it work this way in the future - thank you for your suggestion!