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How do I create a playlist with filenames ordered in the sequence of a playlist?

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baldo:
I have a long playlist and I want to take that into iTunes for my phone.

I can convert all the FLAC files in to ALAC files and then move them over to iTunes which is synced up to my phone.

The problem is the palylist order is all messed up. Is there someway that the sequence field in the playlist can also be sent maybe as a one of the tag fields to the file name.

I tried to find an uses field that I could perhaps edit and give that the sequence number but there does not seem to be one.

Does this make sense?

Dawgincontrol:
I had a similar problem putting onto a USB drive for my car.  What I did, was make an "album" of the playlist and included the "track number" (sequence" as part of the file name.  Had to fool the machine. ;)

May be an easier way, but this worked for me.

baldo:
There must be an easier way to do this.  Surely one of the benefits of MC is the ability to customize the meta fields and sort the library in the way that we want to.

Look forward to hearing from one of the Experts here. There are loads of them!!

baldo:
Ok, so how do I create a new "Album" of with their own track numbers?

I dont really want to mess up the tags for the orginal files in the library. 

It would be easier if we could jsut have a way to export playlists into iTunes but I suppose that's a bit too much to ask for!!!

lepa:
I think you can use Sync Handheld feature by giving a folder in your computer as a virtual handheld device. So create new device and set it to point some folder you created for it then just sync (and convert to alac) the folder with your MC playlist. by default it creates relative path m3u playlist for files.

If Apple can't use relative paths you can also clear Audio Path and change file renaming rules to enter index number with with counter e.g. "padnumber(counter(1,1),2) - [Artist] - [Album] - [Track #] - [Name]". In that case your playlist files are on root of your virtual handheld folder and renamed with index number at start

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