[scott967]

Thought it was simpler, but life never is
A flag to be able to set random / alphabetical for a given collection could be enough.
Since most of the times alphabetical order is the same as chronological order (most cameras use names like "pict_9001","pict_9002", and so on) that should do the trick anyway.
May be you can consider to add this feature some day in one of your next releases?
Thank you anyway.

I also think a random/notrandom setting would be useful. (I typically want a sort by name/increasing slideshow ordering.) As it is, I simply open the collection rather than playing it, and then start a slideshow from there which defaults to non-random. Then you have the option of changing the sort order and direction as well.

scott s.
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