I have a problem with MP3s

jackthelad321

Hi

This problem has really started to bother me. Sometimes when an album, or an audiobook, hasn't been ripped properly, or there is some other problem, the order of the files is scrambled and always appears arse-about-face on an mp3 player - no matter what I do try to fix it. No doubt you know what i'm talking about, but for e.g., the files on the computer are 1 - 20 , say, and they end up permanamtely stuck in order on the mp3 player as, say,

6 -
8 -
17 -
2 -
etc.

Something like that with no coherence or logic and it's especially annoying for lectures or audiobooks which need a flow from beginning to end. I used not listen to as much lectures and audiobooks but now I love them and can't sit always sit at a computer where the order is able to be manipulated. It's fine for music as you can imagine but not so for the others.

Does anyone have a solution to this, or am I just stuck with it?

Thanks if anyone has any help
Jak

Edit: I should say it is often the product of RAR files, I have noticed, but I don't know if that's important of coincidental. It's also rare enough that it happens but always seems to be the things that (a) I really want to listed to and (b) utterly depend on a logical coherence for comprehension.

chin_grin

What mp3 player are you using? If you tagged the track numbers as 01, 02, 03 instead of just 1,2,3 that might work as it's the leading 1 in the tens that makes it play those files first.

You can use this program to tag them in batches.

http://www.mp3tag.de/en/

Also, I know this may sound obvious but be sure that you don't have "random" selected on the mp3 player.

jackthelad321

chin_grin wrote: »

What mp3 player are you using? If you tagged the track numbers as 01, 02, 03 instead of just 1,2,3 that might work as it's the leading 1 in the tens that makes it play those files first.

You can use this program to tag them in batches.

http://www.mp3tag.de/en/

Also, I know this may sound obvious but be sure that you don't have "random" selected on the mp3 player.

Hey to me the problem seems programmed in somehow, I am almost certain that it is something that happened at ripping. The numbers on a computer can be rearranged at a click, but they were ripped or copied or something in a strange order which appears. the only word i have is preset or programmed in after the fact. I may be wrong but I don't think the problem is the one you have put forth, though it seems logical I must admit and I have looked at it myself.

chin_grin

Yes and with that program you can change the metadata (the tagging data) of each track, or the "programmed in" details as you put it.

Also, have you checked that the mp3 player is playing the files by the filename and not the track number? (Alphabetically).

Torqay

You still have not answered the question? Which MP3 player?

Does the "problem" also occur with any software media player?

Of course you will need a 0 in front of all single digit track numbers for proper listing.

chin_grin

Torqay wrote: »

You still have not answered the question? Which MP3 player?

Does the "problem" also occur with any software media player?

Of course you will need a 0 in front of all single didgit track numbers for proper listing.

I don't on my creative zen. <hugs 60GB Vision:M> It doesn't need the leading zero.

jackthelad321

chin_grin wrote: »

Yes and with that program you can change the metadata (the tagging data) of each track, or the "programmed in" details as you put it.

Also, have you checked that the mp3 player is playing the files by the filename and not the track number? (Alphabetically).

Hey maybe that's the trick I'm missing. I am finding it hard to explain myself perfectly here. But yea I partly guessed some ripper software would be the solution, and I will def try that.

jackthelad321

Torqay wrote: »

You still have not answered the question? Which MP3 player?

Does the "problem" also occur with any software media player?

Of course you will need a 0 in front of all single digit track numbers for proper listing.

Hey, it's a Sony Walkman NWZ-8A16. 4 gig an absolute gem of a little player. I think a ripper may be my only solution, will have to see if that will make the difference.

jackthelad321

Hey I think I have found the problem. Seems it is something to do with the Titles indeed, just a slightly altered problem which wasn't immediately clear. Thanks for
all your help the problem has clicked into place: all that is wrong is bad naming of the files, it would seem, and that is what keeps putting them into a strange order. Well, that's what is seems on the current evidence. Perhaps the problem will persist but we'll see.