Hey Jim:
New update. I found a new app called Poweramp. It works with Android based phones, and get this: It plays flac files!!!!! And it has a beautiful skin, great functionality, and syncs with MC. The only issue I have found at the moment is that when I am in MC and transfer albums to the phone, the phone receives them, retains the artwork, album, song titles, etc., but seems to not keep the track number tags.
For some reason on each album the tracks are in alphabetical order, not by track number. I have told Poweramp to sort the songs by track number, and it does so fine if I use the MC conversion feature to convert the tunes to mp3 (all works great).
But the whole reason for me to use MC is because it handles flac files. I have zero interest in mp3 files. So, here is what I have found:
First, I had MC recognize my mobile telephone (an HTC Inspire), which worked great. Then I dragged several albums to the phone and they transferred fine. Everything looked great. Artwork, songs, track numbers, artists, albums, everything. All albums were listed and all artists, with each album under their name. When I opened an album the songs were in the correct order (by track number). I was so happy. Then I played some songs and noticed (1) the quality was not good, and then I noticed (2) the files were mp3 (Poweramp does a great job of showing what is playing).
So I went back to MC and noticed that file conversion was on, and set to mp3. So I deleted everything from the Inspire, and re-transferred several albums to the Inspire from MC, this time using flac, i.e., the format in which I ripped the CDs.
Back to the phone. Everything looks fine, the albums are there (but not recognized under "Albums") and the artwork and song titles, but when I select an album the songs are listed in alphabetical order, not by track number. A real killer for classical albums, not to mention jazz. The songs play just fine, but are in the wrong order.
So, simple question. How do I get MC to tell the phone the track numbers? It obviously can, since it did when they were converted to mp3.
Thanks Jim!!!!!!!