LoneRider

Well, in looking into this, I've read various articles that say you *can* do this with iPhoto ... but there's a process where iPhoto effectively renames the files to get a correct order. Also, another writer told of wanting to generate a particular order from a slide show perspective and there is apparently a way to do this with QuickTime (Pro). So I think there are some contortions that one can go through to, eventually, accomplish the task. As I said earlier, I know I can rename the files (add 01, 02, etc., at the beginning of the filenames) to get this done ... but it seems that it should be easier to do. And I don't think it's that unusual a request. I know you said you've never tried to do this, but I do this pretty regularly ... usually with picture files and usually because the *story* of the pictures makes more sense with the files are displayed in a particular order. And that order is *not* typically alphabetical.

So, if you accept the position that this is not such a rare request, it would seem that the special "Burn" window in OS X could easily have functionality available to allow the user to, for example, order the file alias's any which way by dragging them. And, again, I know of several programs (and I think Toast allows this too, but I've never used it) where this is just standard functionality. So I'm sure I can pay $$ for another program to accomplish this on the Mac but, again, I'm just wondering if I've missed something (maybe a secret option?) that would allow me to reorder the files in a burn window and have them actually burn in that order.

Thanks for your reply ...