Please can any one advise how the Meural Canvas 2 follows or formats the order of sequence of play for jpg photo images files from an SD Card? Or how to order - label them before inserting the SD Card. I want mine to play in date order so I can display my life and adventures as they happened!
Initially I have organised my folder in the date sequence & time the photograph was taken known as "Date Picture Taken". I unwittingly assumed the 'meural canvas 2' would play the files in the order they are stored on the SD card but they seem to play them completely in random order!
I am aware that in "Canvas Settings" in the App there is a "PLAYLIST BEHAVIOUR" section for "Image Shuffle" but even with this 'untagged or not ticked' it still plays my files in a seemingly random way or is it following an alphanumeric sequence or some other protocol of play?
Many thanks in advance if amy one can enlighten me. Thank you.
OK - so by trial and error I am able to answer my own query as follows;
Apparent Image Order as 'played' or displayed by Meural II
> Essentially it seems [not verified - by trial and error] that the Meural II products follow a number sequence when playing " .jpg " files from an SD Card.
> They do not follow the "date created" or the "sequence in which they are stored on the SD card", the latter which you may expect.
> Thus if you have loaded them on to an SD Card in date order or name order then the products programme appears to look for a straight
numerical order and 'plays' or displays them in numerical order - "numbers ascending"!
> It therefore follows if you get your image files in a folder in the order sequence you desire you then need to relabel ["rename"]
them numerically in the correct sequence - "number ascending".
Organising your image files
> If you wish to organise your image ".JPG files" there are automated way to do this in Microsoft.
Best to search this by the Microsoft software version your PC is using , for example "Windows 7 , 10, etc."
> For me I wanted to display my photo's in their correct date order - a recorded adventure of my phone and trips and memories.
> Thus I made sure all my photo's have a "date picture taken on"
- if your image files don't have this date you can add this by using free software like "Exif Pilot".
> Then you can sort your image files by correct date order if this is what you desire.
Adding sequential number files
> Once you have folders with images sequentially as you desire them you can then "rename" in number sequence order using Microsoft.
> This is an automated process - please follow the link below;
> Note if your total number of images is well within 4 figures, for example "5958" , then rename from start point "1000" [i.e.. Meural1 (1000).jpg]
> This is because the programmes apparent algorithm has problems with reading the correct number sequence when you use numbers of
different figures , for example compare 1 figure numbers [1 to 9], 2 figure numbers [10 to 99] or 4 figure numbers [1000 to 9999]
> If you have a large number of images probably best to start all numbers from 5 figures with the first "Image No.1" renamed as for example meural1 (10000).jpg and so on . . .
