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[justsomeguy]

I use MC to sync tracks to a device that doesn't support playlists.  The device is setup to sync to a specific playlist.  That playlist has the tracks in the order I placed them but when I sync, the device does not play back in the same order as the playlist.  Obviously this is because the device reads only the filename structure so everything is basically played back alphabetically.  I can setup folder rules in the device sync options but need some way of setting up a filename rule as well so that I can have MC add on it's own track number to the beginning of the filename based on it order in the playlist.

Hope I explained this ok.  Is something like this possible?

Thanks

[JimH]

MC's handheld sync has an option for pre-pending a track number.

[justsomeguy]

Thanks for the reply.

For the life of me I don't see any option like that.  If I burn a data cd there's an option to had a track number before the filename but I can't find anything for sync to a device.  I'm not really looking for a track number from the tag either, I'm wanting to add a number to the beginning of the filename based on its order in the playlist.

[justsomeguy]

I'm assuming that this isn't possible?

[Matt]

I don't believe there's an option to prepend a number during a handheld sync.  Sorry for the confusion.

The only solution I can think is to rename the files using Rename, Move, & Copy Files before a sync with a filename rule like:
CustomData(#) - [Artist] - [Name]

Then sync.

Then use the same tool to revert to the filenaming rule you prefer.