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[noir]

A friendly hello first to all of you,

I do feel bad making my first post a new topic, but i just couldn't find an answer on these forums or elsewhere yet.
I am very happy with JRiver, and it is powering my speaker setup quite nicely.

My music collection is sizeable, and i love using the "Files" view in JRiver. To make my listening more comfy, I'm trying out Gizmo on a tablet.
Having added a "Files" customized view in Media Network - Advanced - Customize Views (File Path), I can browse through my folders just as i wanted. Flawless.

However, when browsing my "Files" view, the order of songs is wrong. It seems to always sort via Artist. I did try to add a "set rules for files display", to make it use "sort by track #",
but that setting doesn't seem affect song display at all.

Strangely however, if i choose "Album"or "Artist" customized views, the songs track order is respected, even without any "sort by track #"
This behaviour happens both on Gizmo as well as on WebGizmo.

I don't know what i should do next, and i bet it might be a simple oversight... any ideas?

[JimH]

Welcome to the forum.  Is there any reason, other than habit, that you couldn't use the other views of MC?  Browsing by directories isn't a great experience compared with browsing by artist or album.

If your files aren't well tagged, you can tag them automatically from your file structure.

[noir]

Hi Jim,

thanks for the quick reply
Let's say there's a lot of different stuff i like to listen to, and which i prefer to be sorted differently, and in well separated categories (anime OST by series, videogame OST by studio, then game, classical by composer, movies by, etc etc) ... even if i tagged them all correctly i would still have to mess around a lot with smart playlists.

I did forget to mention that for those Gizmo tests i used perfectly fine tagged albums, so track # metadata is filled out correctly.

In "set rules for file display", i tried using "Track #" as first choice, then "Filename" as second ... unfortunately it didnt sort it correctly (the files themselves are named 01 - *, 02 - *, etc, so it it should pick up the order on filename as well)