Sort your NZB files alphabetically before downloading them. nzbsort will allow you to stream/uncompress the files in the right order and possibly pipe the output to a media player.

Developer comments

We don't respect the alpha sorting for the first .rar file, since .r00 should be before .rar but in practice, we want it after.

Usage:

This tool was designed to be simple and work with stdin/stdout. Here are a few examples, all doing the same thing:

nzbsort < original.nzb > output.nzb
nzbsort original.nzb > output.nzb
cat original.nzb | nzbsort > output.nzb

Play stuff before it's done

Now that you can get your files in order, here is one way to play a movie right away without having to wait for everything to be done (requires mplayer and rar:

 # First identify the final file name
rar l "My Movie.part01.rar"
mkfifo "My Movie.avi"
rar x "My Movie.avi"

 # Reply 'Y' when it prompts you to override, now press ^Z and resume the
 # process in the background with 'bg':
bg
mplayer "My Movie.avi"


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Requirements:

· Python