Android Kindle Fire tablets need the following hypthothetical app:
1. Use the app’s file manager to select a folder of video files.
2. Automatically make a new playlist of all files in that folder.
3. Then apply a best-guess intelligent re-sorting of the playlist order, if file naming is not strictly 001-100.
4. Allow the user to make final adjustments in the playing order, by manual selection of files and moving them via hold-drag.
5. Save the resulting playlist in the folder, in the playlist format for any chosen video player.
Why is this needed? Because no video player I can find has this relatively simple and useful feature. Not even VLC. At present, when faced with a folder of 100 files where the first ten don’t sort correctly on ‘sort by name’ (i.e.: named “8, 9, 10” instead of “008, 009, 010”), one has to first fiddle on the Windows desktop with something like Winsome File Renamer, to get everything re-named in the correct 001-100 order. This is so that ‘sort by name’ will then give you the correct playing order in an app like VLC 3.x. Then you copy the files over to the Kindle Fire.
Here’s a simple demonstration of the file-name sorting problem that happens with ‘sort by name’, and that needs to be solved:
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