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Audio Files Play Out Of Order
When I use Windows Media Player or VLC media Player to play WAV files stored on my (brand new) ReadyNAS Duo, they play out of order. I have the files named as : 01 Track one title 02 Track two titl...
I have also had this problem running a ReadyNas Duo using UPnP.
I had the problem with a Roberts 83i and a Cambridge Audio NP30 player (both British-designed).
After looking carefully at the playing order it was apparent that the 83i was sorting using the 'Title' field in the ID3 tag and the NP30 was sorting by file name. Interestingly both manufacturers of the players told me that the sort order was determined by the uPnP server - clearly not the case.
I fixed the problem by using an ID tag editor to add track numbers to both the Title field and the beginning of the filename of each file. I used a free editor called Mp3Tag to do this. It is not very easy to use unless you are familiar with 'regular expressions' in text editing but it is very powerful in that it can automatically edit many files (including in multi-level subfolders) using a single command (and has full undo capability if you make a mistake).
It is important to use leading zeros in the track numbers (01, 02 etc); I first used the 'autonumber' function in Mp3Tag to put correctly formatted numbers in the 'Track' field and then copied these to the beginning of the Title field and filename using the 'Format Value' function.
If I had known about this issue beforehand I could have added these numbers by specifiying the correct tag and file formats when ripping the CDs and saved myself some trouble.
For some multidisk classical sets I found it useful to use a 3-digit track number where the first number corresponds to the disk number in the set (101, 201 etc); this makes it possible to put all the tracks in one folder while retaining the identification of the disk numbers to tie up with the information booklets supplied with the original CDs.
This solution also worked for FLAC files.
I had the problem with a Roberts 83i and a Cambridge Audio NP30 player (both British-designed).
After looking carefully at the playing order it was apparent that the 83i was sorting using the 'Title' field in the ID3 tag and the NP30 was sorting by file name. Interestingly both manufacturers of the players told me that the sort order was determined by the uPnP server - clearly not the case.
I fixed the problem by using an ID tag editor to add track numbers to both the Title field and the beginning of the filename of each file. I used a free editor called Mp3Tag to do this. It is not very easy to use unless you are familiar with 'regular expressions' in text editing but it is very powerful in that it can automatically edit many files (including in multi-level subfolders) using a single command (and has full undo capability if you make a mistake).
It is important to use leading zeros in the track numbers (01, 02 etc); I first used the 'autonumber' function in Mp3Tag to put correctly formatted numbers in the 'Track' field and then copied these to the beginning of the Title field and filename using the 'Format Value' function.
If I had known about this issue beforehand I could have added these numbers by specifiying the correct tag and file formats when ripping the CDs and saved myself some trouble.
For some multidisk classical sets I found it useful to use a 3-digit track number where the first number corresponds to the disk number in the set (101, 201 etc); this makes it possible to put all the tracks in one folder while retaining the identification of the disk numbers to tie up with the information booklets supplied with the original CDs.
This solution also worked for FLAC files.
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